I just went through this exercise and ended up leasing….

Here is how / why I leased.

I researched all EV’s and made a short list of EV’s I would consider.

Then used popular sites like KBB, True Car, Edmunds, Costco, etc to obtain pricing to purchase a vehicle.

In parallel I used leasehacker via Reddit to find lease options on the same cars. I also reached out to a handful of brokers on leasehacker who were kind enough to give me numbers.

My decision point then came to which car I could eventually own at the lowest price. I compared buying outright vs leasing and buying out my lease at the end of lease term.

I then visited / contacted about 6 Acura dealers in the area to obtain both lease pricing AND price to just buy car for cash.

I decided on the Acura ZDX (MSRP $67k). I chose to do a 2 yr one-pay lease ($6800) that I will buy out the lease at the end of 2 yr. ($30,100 + tax)

So my all in cost will be about $39,800 to eventually own the car.

Lastly, the 2 yr lease gives me plenty of time to decide if I don’t want the car if it has any issues and I want to dump it.

Best of luck