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your comment is correct for some people but I will always lease an EV because of the huge depreciations that hit EVs hard. the rapid changes of the tech is also a reason to lease vs. buying.This is the problem with leasing. You are borrowing the car, so the expectation is to return it in an undamaged condition. Nothing wrong in that.
That’s why it’s less stress free to just buy the car. No need to worry about a chip or a small scratch, or mileage that you put in.
my first tesla model S, 2013, was functionally obsolete in a year after I purchased it, my second one had the flawed 90kw battery pack and my model 3 took a 50% hit in less than 2 years of owning it. my taycan, which I leased and turned in 18 months ago is still sitting in storage, my lease Ipace took a massive depreciation hit as well. when that lease was up I was will to buy that car but the residual was almost $20k over the current value of the car.
my take away is that if you can live within the mileage constraints leasing EVs is the way to go.