Five Questions. One Phone Call.
Most used EV advice tells you what to inspect once you're standing in the driveway.
This guide happens earlier... Five questions you can ask over the phone or in a message, before you spend an afternoon on a car that was never worth seeing.
What the five questions cover:
Battery health: the one number that separates a good used EV from an expensive one
Warranty transfer: what's left, and whether it actually follows the car to you
Heating system: the trim-level difference that decides how the car behaves in February
Charging history: how the pack was treated before you got there
Winter exposure: where it sat, and what that did to more than the battery
Every question comes with its follow-up. Sellers answer with one confident word. The follow-up is what turns that word into something you can actually verify — and knowing what to say next is the difference between a conversation and a screening.
Also inside: a plain-language explanation of heat pumps versus resistive heaters, the three ways to independently verify battery health in Canada, and a printable scorecard for the call.
