Good decision for me!
Technically you didn't save $400. You only saved the depreciation amount (whatever percentage of the car price you paid for the lease). So if the initial price was $400, and your residual was 55% (using simple numbers), you only saved $180 + interest on that $180.
You are absolutely right, I stand corrected.
If the launch follows the same pattern as the Ford TSC rollout, the vehicle needs a certificate update that tells it to trust the TSC during the Plug-n-Charge handshake. Guessing no Taycans have those certificates loaded yet. Perhaps 2025s could get them via OTA(?), but earlier years could also have a path to update certificates via a service visit since it's just software.
Are you making some assumptions, or do you have data that confirms them?
With the Tesla app for Magic Docks, never.So you've never heard your wife say "why does my phone not have signal or internet?", or "the damned thing logged me out, what's my password?"
I don't have the data/knowledge to prove anything. It was more of an informed guess based on watching the Ford rollout to TSC. Sorry to imply otherwise.
Tesla app works better that EA, no doubt. I'm just saying Tesla plug-and-charge offers even simpler, less error prone operation. I'm going assume your wife is literate (can read with understanding), has some common sense, has a relatively recent phone with valid internet service (not disconnected because she hasn't paid the bill, or an old phone with old modem which sometimes craps out, or a hacked phone because it's years after its last update), is mostly coherent, therefore really cannot be used as the yard stick for smoothness of the operation for the general public. Charging needs to be as simple or simpler than filling up gasoline, and Tesla plug-and-charge accomplishes this.
Interestingly, when I was speccing a build at our local London centre the salesman told me that the residuals are pretty much the same and therefore the monthly payments are higher as you are financing 100% of the cost of the options. So I guess his point was that it’s not 55% of what you paid but a flat standard rate for the model you choose. If he was right (and he seemed both certain and a bit embarrassed) then basically all options are 100% lost cost. The only difference and therefore how you can recoup some of the option cost is that in theory they will offer you a better trade in price for a Taycan that is better specced with options. I guess his point was that a Taycan with zero options will probably result in a trade in price of close to the same as the residual payment. A Taycan with (decent) options will get you a better trade in price and higher than the residual because they will be able to sell it more easily. According to this one salesman anyway…..
There is also an economic / strategic model in play here that is aside from any technical requirements / limitations.
No, I think you are absolutely correct with your initial remark. I don't know how leasing (or the equivalent) in the UK works, but here as long as you don't exceed the MRM all OEM options are subject to the residual. After market items, such a PPF or Ceramic Coating are absorbed as a non residual item.
