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These Cars Are Losing Value So Fast It’s Almost Impressive
- EVs make up half of cars on a list of used models that have lost most money in 12 months.
- The Tesla Model S sedan shed the most value, followed by the Model X and Model Y SUVs.
- Porsche’s Taycan EV, the Maserati Levante and the Lincoln Aviator were big luxury losers.
Tesla still commands a 40+ percent share of the US EV market, but demand is down 11 percent Jan-June, and it’s not only declining new car sales that are causing alarm. The brand also dominates a list of the used cars whose value is dropping hardest.
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The Elon Musk-headed automaker bagged four spaces in the top 10 list of biggest losers collated by the data crunchers at iSeeCars, and a fourth Tesla also found its way onto the chart.
Including one other brand’s value-shedding model, EVs accounted for five of the 10 cars judged to have shed the biggest percentage of their value in 10 months. And that’s despite electric vehicles only accounting for 3.3 percent of the 1- to 5-year-old used market.
Tesla Tops the List of Falling Used Car Values
The study found the Model S suffered the biggest percentage price drop – though not the biggest dollar drop. The sedan’s average price in June 2025 was $46,700, which is 15.8 percent or $8,800 lower than it was 12 months earlier.
The Model X SUV actually lost more money – $9,500 – but due to its higher initial price, that drop only represented a 15.5 percent fall, putting it in second place. Third spot went to the Model Y, which fell $4,600 or 13.6 percent, probably in part due to the arrival of a facelifted version of the SUV this spring.
TOP 10 USED CAR PRICE DROPS
| Model | Avg Price Jun-25 | Diff. vs Jun-24 ($) | Diff. vs Jun-24 (%) | |
| 1 | Tesla Model S | $46,671 | -$8,768 | -15.8% |
| 2 | Tesla Model X | $51,884 | -$9,544 | -15.5% |
| 3 | Tesla Model Y | $29,387 | -$4,637 | -13.6% |
| 4 | Ford Explorer Hybrid | $30,960 | -$3,441 | -10.0% |
| 5 | Jeep Gladiator | $34,230 | -$3,642 | -9.6% |
| 6 | Tesla Model 3 | $25,132 | -$2,598 | -9.4% |
| 7 | Maserati Levante | $44,160 | -$3,765 | -7.9% |
| 8 | Porsche Taycan | $78,200 | -$5,862 | -7.0% |
| 9 | Chrysler Voyager | $22,521 | -$1,591 | -6.6% |
| 10 | Lincoln Aviator | $43,130 | -$2,703 | -5.9% |
| – | EV Average | $31,354 | -$1,569 | -4.8% |
| – | ICE Average | $32,525 | $1,594 | 5.2% |
The Model 3’s value slid 9.4 percent, putting it in sixth spot, behind the fourth-place Ford Explorer hybrid (down 10 percent) and Jeep Gladiator (fifth place, down 9.6 percent). And Porsche’s Taycan lost 7 percent of its value, earning it eighth place, meaning all five of the EVs on the list lost far more than the average EV, whose value fell by 4.8 percent.
Sandwiched between the Model 3 and the Taycan is the Maserati Levante (seventh place, down 7.9 percent), and the top 10 is rounded out by the Chrysler Voyager (ninth, down 6.6 percent) and Lincoln Aviator (tenth, down 5.9 percent).
Used EV Values Lag Behind the Market
All five EVs on the list fell significantly more than the average for used electric vehicles, which dropped just 4.8 percent. By contrast, used internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles actually gained in value slightly, up 5.2 percent on average over the same 12-month period.
The study appears to show that American consumers are less interested in EVs as used cars, and that sentiment is likely to carry over into future years as this September’s scrapping of EV tax credits begins to take effect and the ripples are felt in the used market.
