[Hersbird]

Besides Tesla, most pure EVs have a poor resale. To me, the used car buyer, that's great!

I was surprised to see the projection for 3 year resale on the 2017 Hyundai Inoiq EV to be 35.5% of it's $31,000 msrp. So next year they should have 2017 models for around $11,000 at auction. From current (pun) shopping that seems to be a stretch as I only see them going right now at retail for $20,000. Then again that's retail vs wholesale, maybe they are only bringing $15,000 at auction now, and in another year there might be a bigger turnaround in supply of the used ones.

The Leaf can be found very inexpensive now, under $5000 no problem as they go back awhile. Even a more current (pun intended again) model suffers the same 35% resale value after 36 months.

Seattle has a good selection of 3 year old Golf EVs with less than 20,000 miles on them for $11-15k (one has only 8,000 miles). They are even VW certified used but I'm not sure what that means extra in the VW world.

I personally don't think the BMW I3 or the Smart would work well with my hill and Montana winters.

What about the Fiat 500e? Some say it's pretty fun.

What do you all think? What is the best value used EV on the market? Where is the best bang for your buck?

PS based on my bill I pay $.12 per kWh using an average of 32.7 kWh per day for $3.89 per day. I don't think we have tiered pricing or any differences night/day in our aera. There may also be a set "delivery" portion part of that number that may make adding charging everyday even less than $.12/ kWh.

PPS looking at a higher month in the heat last summer, 43.1 kWh average was $4.99 per day. So charging 10.4 kWh per day more would cost me $1.10 per day and that should give me about 40 miles which is more than I travel now by a bunch, and would cost me almost $10 in the beast.