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Used EV prices fall much faster than gas cars, according to iSeeCars (www.autoblog.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Used car prices have been heading in the right direction after months of elevated values and inventory shortages. Even so, the values of some vehicles have declined much faster than others, with EVs doing the heavy lifting. Automotive data outfit iSeeCars' latest study looked at used car values over the past year, finding that used electric vehicles are dropping at a much faster rate than their gas-powered counterparts.

While used car values have been dropping overall over the past year, used EVs have dropped like a stone in comparison. iSeeCars found that the average for used electric models fell by up to almost 32 percent since 2023, while the used gas vehicle average price sank by just 3.6 percent.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

It's not really surprising. A large portion of an EV's pricetag is the battery pack, and that's a wear part. Kind of like buying a used cellphone: if the battery is half spent and it won't hold a charge for a whole day, it's not really worth buying at all. Not to mention, even if the car is reasonably recent, you don't know if the owner let the battery deep-discharge or drove it in super-cold weather and damaged it even more than normal use and aging would. In a regular vehicle, you can assess the condition of the major parts. In an EV, you can't really tell if the battery is hosed before it's too late.

In other words, an EV is something you want to buy new, to make sure you know its history, and to get its best years of service out of it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That may be part of it, but I'd say another big force is more competition in the EV market.

We went from almost no competition to most major auto brands having new offerings.

Further, the general price of an EV has highly fluctuated which does not help. It has inverted a couple of times which will make people hold off buying used when new might be cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Yeah I agree, battery degradation has very little to do with it. I was about to buy a used EV until Ford dropped mach e prices recently. I ended up getting a new car for less than used listings.

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