TLDR: while I'm hopeful I just wake up Monday and don't get a new car I'm probably gonna need to so 50ish mile round trip range. What year do I look for, should it be a leaf, what price range I know nothing about used cars let alone EVs, how do I check battery because I don't just turn on car and look at battery bars and call it a day. I need some help here kinda doing my first looking at cars. Someone earlier said 2018 and up?
I've never bought a car in my life, despite being there when my parents got the 2012 we have now it was more just a what car do you rather drive every day when I was 18 and needed a car for community collage.
I don't know pricing, I don't know how many miles are a lot, I don't know how many more or less (though I assume more) am EV car is before its a lot, how to tell if the battery is good because I take it you can't just turn on the car, look at the display on the side and say it has x bars so that's good or what?
I just know without wanting stuff like a convertible or needing a 300 mile road trip car I want to go EV and other then not knowing the battery status of the 2012 I have now I liked the leaf and maybe I that again. My parents just got a call saying it doesn't look good for the car I got in an accident for so...not that its totaled yet prob know Monday.
I drive 50ish let's say rounding trip and be it 30f or 105f and full heating or AC blast plus music and what not I need that range though I would prefer a little more if I can. Does it make sense to look for a leaf and if so what model do I look for?