FWIW, when I leased my Bolt one year ago, I could have bought it outright for $23K. The residual on my car is not much below that. I obviously won't buy it at the end of the lease -- GM just released new Bolts based on essentially the same technology they started using in 2017, which is mediocre by current EV standards; so they will have to continue to be very competitive on price going forward.
Just saying I think you should look carefully at the market when the lease runs out, it may not be economically advantageous to buy it out.
Yeah I'm going to play it by ear. If the inflation continues and prices permanently rise, $21k may be a good deal. We also might get close to the release of the Tesla Model 2 by then, along with a bunch of Chinese EV imports, so I'll definitely shop around.
I'm personally looking for a 'low end' EV as I will absolutely at no time ever need more than 100 miles of range, and probably much less most of the time. My commute is looking like 45 miles/week once we return to the office, so there's not much point in paying for more than that.
FWIW, when I leased my Bolt one year ago, I could have bought it outright for $23K. The residual on my car is not much below that. I obviously won't buy it at the end of the lease -- GM just released new Bolts based on essentially the same technology they started using in 2017, which is mediocre by current EV standards; so they will have to continue to be very competitive on price going forward.
Just saying I think you should look carefully at the market when the lease runs out, it may not be economically advantageous to buy it out.