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You forgot about the cost of a transmission. Your 20 years don't seem to be helping here.
You're trying to compare apples to apples in terms of functional components, but that's disingenuous and completely misses the point. I'm comparing the most expensive components that degrade over time and with use as a cost of ownership - both ICE and EV have expensive components that may need to be replaced after many miles and time, discrediting one and not the other is asinine. Every ICE I've owned has gone to the scrap yard, but somehow it's only a problem for EVs, which BTW can have 99% of their lithium recycled and re-used.
The discussion at hand is battery powered vehicles and the used market cost. Not cost of ownership, not most expensive part, but the second hand market. Which with a battery powered EV you have to take much different precautions when purchasing one in the used market compared to an ICE vehicle, precautions the average person does not think about or know.
A transmission for a Sentra is $1500… still not equal to a Leaf battery pack, taking that argument further.
I have never bought a new car, and have sold every single one to someone else, who is either still driving it or has sold it to someone else. The fact that you scrap cars so readily lets me know you have no idea of value of an ICE vehicle, let alone an electric powered one.