You’re rolling the dice until BBB passes or dies in the Senate. Most likely we’ll know in the next 3 weeks (they have to also deal with the debt ceiling), but nobody knows what (if anything) will pass in its current form.
Unless your CPA tells you that your business can only write off a lease and not a purchase, leasing a Tesla is never the correct option. And even then, keep in mind what you’re giving up by leasing it.
Can’t sell it to a 3rd party to capture any equity. Can’t buy the lease out yourself to capture any equity. Rent charge is atrocious and makes it significantly more expensive to lease than to finance.
Yes, S and X let you buy it, so at least there’s an out.
MFs vary with brands. Tesla charges very high ones. Remove all the benefits of leasing and there’s no good reason to even consider paying the higher interest amount.
Yes, high mfs coupled with no way to buy out the lease means it just doesn’t make sense.
About a month ago, I was looking at picking up a model 3. When I ran the numbers between leasing vs buying, if I held the car for 3 years and sold it for the lease rv at the end, the lease would cost me about $3000 more than buying it. Used tesla prices have always been high, suggesting that selling it at the rv would be a very low number. More likely to sell for quite a bit higher, making that $3000 gap probably thousands low.
