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Respectfully, repeating it won't make it true.

For a vast majority of car buyers, there are only two prices they will care about. How much it costs when they get it, and how much they get when they sell it.

And to the original point, a low TCO will have no impact one someone's ability to buy the car in the first place.

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How much they get when they sell it is directly related to the remaining TCO of the car.

Not at all. Much like any other transaction under capitalism, it's based on what the buyer and seller can come to an agreement on. The cost to the seller is what they've paid, not how much might be saved over the coming years.

And if you include a middleman, like a dealer for a trade-in, they won't ever pay for gas or maintenance, so they're even less inclined to factor the remaining TCO into the price.

The price the buyer and seller agree on is a price between what the seller is willing to sell at and the price the buyer is willing to buy at.

The price the buyer is willing to buy at is directly related to the costs he is going to incur operating the vehicle.

In a world where electric second hand cars exist, the second-hand price of most ICE cars will be negative, sellers will have to give you money to accept the high fueling and maintenance costs.

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