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When you write about cars, you can expect people to ask for your advice on which car they should buy. But when the question is actually “which used car should I buy, ” many of us go quiet; driving an ever-rotating string of low-mileage new models leaves you unprepared to comment upon long-term reliability or the like. Last week, a friend posed an even harder variant, asking for suggestions for a used plug-in electric vehicle. And my default suggestion of a sub-$20, 000 BMW i3 wasn’t going to cut it.
As luck would have it, I noticed that Kelley Blue Book—which does keep track associated with things like long-term reliability and depreciation—just published a list of its best affordable used hybrids and EVs for 2021, with top-10 lists for cars that cost less than $15, 000 as well as those under $20, 000 .
As you might expect at all those price points, the lists are dominated by parallel hybrids like the Toyota Prius. No Teslas, I’m afraid—the cheapest used Model 3 that shows up in a brief search this morning still costs $28, 000, and the rest all had prices that started with a three. But some battery EVs do make the particular KBB’s top-10 list.
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