Well, I finally did it!
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A lot of extremely wealthy people I know lease their cars so it’s not like leasing is just for aspirational buys, nothing wrong with a lease if you already know you’re likely to change cars in a couple years plus there can be tax benefits. Sometimes I keep a car for a long time, sometimes I dump it in a year so purchasing makes sense for me and sometimes I finance sometimes I just write a check.
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You know where all of that savings will go? 
in 10 years at 100K+ miles, your EV will need a new battery, let's just say a cheap one, for $15,000 plus labor and fees, your total will be $20,000 sir.
Meanwhile, at 100K, say a v6 Lexus ES350, still is considered "mint", need nothing... here you have it folks, all things will balance out, as it was all planned
in 10 years at 100K+ miles, your EV will need a new battery, let's just say a cheap one, for $15,000 plus labor and fees, your total will be $20,000 sir.Meanwhile, at 100K, say a v6 Lexus ES350, still is considered "mint", need nothing... here you have it folks, all things will balance out, as it was all planned
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You know where all of that savings will go? in 10 years at 100K+ miles, your EV will need a new battery, let's just say a cheap one, for $15,000 plus labor and fees, your total will be $20,000 sir.
Meanwhile, at 100K, say a v6 Lexus ES350, still is considered "mint", need nothing... here you have it folks, all things will balance out, as it was all planned
in 10 years at 100K+ miles, your EV will need a new battery, let's just say a cheap one, for $15,000 plus labor and fees, your total will be $20,000 sir.Meanwhile, at 100K, say a v6 Lexus ES350, still is considered "mint", need nothing... here you have it folks, all things will balance out, as it was all planned
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Exactly. Neither a lease nor an EV is personally for me, but it's a cold fact that lessees don't have to worry about battery replacements.
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You know where all of that savings will go? in 10 years at 100K+ miles, your EV will need a new battery, let's just say a cheap one, for $15,000 plus labor and fees, your total will be $20,000 sir.
Meanwhile, at 100K, say a v6 Lexus ES350, still is considered "mint", need nothing... here you have it folks, all things will balance out, as it was all planned
in 10 years at 100K+ miles, your EV will need a new battery, let's just say a cheap one, for $15,000 plus labor and fees, your total will be $20,000 sir.Meanwhile, at 100K, say a v6 Lexus ES350, still is considered "mint", need nothing... here you have it folks, all things will balance out, as it was all planned
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Oh, don't get ahead of yourself"I never said that! My first experience at a charging station was enlightening and frustrating. I couldn't understand why my charging speed showed hours instead of 30 minutes. This was from 10% to 80%. It turned out that the 350 kW chargers were only registering at 39 kW. I tried 8 of them, and the remaining customers tried the others. All were slow as SH&T, and other people tried other chargers as well. Apparently, this issue is common there. I'll be glad when my home charging gets installed in a few days. I won't have to travel an hour round trip and spend 3 hours."