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Leasing (vs buying) gives you an option and a hedge on depreciation of the vehicle (you're pre agreeing to a price for the car in the future, the residual). Typically the option value of the lease is priced into payment and residual such that if you intend to just own the car and pay it off, it's not going to be worth starting with a lease.
however, right now with the EV credit only being applicable to the lease (at least for me as my income is over the cap for any car) the full cost to own math works out in my modeling such that it's almost the same (especially when accounting for reinvesting the delta in payment @5%) for lease vs buy making the option free and With EVs depreciation is super uncertain that's an excellent option to have.
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