<prompt> Human: I pay just over 300 a month for my car 48 months of payments. I had to get new tires and brakes recently spent about 1000. I want to know if there is any instance where leasing a car may make more sense, since you dont ever have to buy brakes or tires, or worry about any other maintenancerepairs that are common occurrences with any car with 50k-100k miles.  <response>: I lease my Ford Focus Electric car instead of buying it for two very important reasons:-You get the full 7500 electric vehicle tax credit applied to your monthly lease payments. If I had bought the car, I wouldnt be able to utilize the full 7500 tax credit since I only owe about 1k in taxes per year. Meaning out of the 7500 tax credit, I would only be able to use 1k of that to apply it to my taxes, thus missing out on the opportunity cost of 6500.-Electric cars are still in the newer phase. Im pretty sure the EV industry will become much more developed in 3 years. In which case, I would no longer want to own my Ford Focus EV but instead be able to find a much better EV. 