Who Needs New? The Best Selling Used Cars of 2023

Top Selling Used Electric Vehicles of 2023

While you should still do your due diligence with any used EV purchase, used EVs that are one to five years old generally still have plenty of life left in their battery packs. And the top two used EVs on this list shouldn’t be a surprise, as Tesla is a perennially popular EV brand. With 34.9 percent of the used EV market, the Model 3 tops the chart for the second year in a row, but it’s down by 5.1 percent over 2022. The second most-bought was the Model Y, which made up 11.9 percent and a 1.6 percent gain over 2022.

Coming up in third was the Chevrolet Bolt, which made up 6.9 percent and bumped the Tesla Model S from this position. The Nissan Leaf made up 6.2 percent and ranked fourth to further drop the Model S to fifth. The original Tesla sedan made up only 5.6 percent of the used EV market, down by 4.2 percent, dropping a significant two positions on the list.

Tesla’s other all-electric, the Model X, only made up 5.5 percent in 2023 putting it in sixth place where it once was the fourth most sold at 7.7 percent in 2022. Ford’s Model Y competitor, the Mustang Mach-E, increased its sales over 2022’s 3.7 percent to 4.6 percent of used EVs sold, but remained in seventh place for 2023. VW Group’s EVs—the Audi E-tron, Porsche Taycan, and Volkswagen ID.4—rounded out the rest of the top 10 of all used EV sold in that order with only the Audi approaching 3 percent of all used EV sales.