Buying a used car? The best bargains may be shifting from electric to gas.

For years, one of the biggest concerns about buying an electric vehicle was depreciation. EVs could lose value quickly, making them expensive to own but potentially attractive bargains on the used-car market.

Now those bargains are getting harder to find.

Anyone who has been watching used Tesla prices and waiting for them to fall farther may be disappointed.

According to a new iSeeCars study, average asking prices for used electric vehicles jumped 9.8% between September 2025 and September 2026. Gasoline-powered vehicles, meanwhile, increased just 0.3%.

And the EVs are moving off dealer lots faster.

The study, which analyzed more than 1.5 million used vehicles between one and five years old, found that electric cars now spend an average of 41.9 days on the market, compared with 54.8 days for gasoline