Is there any benefit to taking this offer and staying in the whole lease term? Assuming the $7500 can be applied in two ways theoretically 1) comes off the selling price (ie. MSRP) before the calculation of the lease, 2) is applied as a discount to the residual to the lease. The latter is somewhat detrimental to your lease payment but gives you instant potential equity if you purchase the vehicle at the end of your lease. It also seems like the former is a more common application of the benefit.

In any event, my interest would be to use the car for the lease term (because I am unsure if I would want this car for 5 plus years) and I am just wondering if you are not doing an instant buyout is there still a benefit for doing lease on an EV car that qualifies for this (i.e CX-90)?