Just wait for reviews and other owner(s) reports before ordering. Waiting another 3 months for this information isn't a deal breaker.
A good reason to get the car before the end of 2020 is that the $7500 rebate could be claimed in 2021. Getting the car in January 2021 means getting the rebate in 2022.
Good point. 11:59 PM December 31st then!
Last I heard was mid-late November for the first US deliveries. That was a couple weeks ago, but my sources were right about the order banks opening the week of June 22nd, so I tend to believe them.
I think you will be okay even if your car is the first EV they have seen. Ford gained a ton of useful data from previous EV and PHEV models that you can expect top quality product in the MME. Doubt there will be hardly any EV related failures that your dealer isnt able to handle. In fact, your car might not ever return to that same dealership again. These things are THAT reliable.
Never leased before. Does this make financial sense in your opinion?
Well, that requires a longer conversation. But in short I would say yes (speaking only about leasing in the US, since I don’t know how European leases work). Double yes for an EV.
It depends on how you plan on using the vehicle. I would never lease an EV. I have owned mine for 14 months and have 34k miles on it so far. For me, owning an EV has been so liberating that I now take trips that I used to avoid with ICE vehicles. I used to think twice before diving anywhere because i didnt want to waste fuel and pollute unnecessarily.
Although by the time anyone gets their hands on an actual production MME to review, the window to convert a reservation into an order will probably have long since expired. Meaning having to wait until all reservations are filled and then trying to buy from the "normal" process (i.e. cars that show up in stock on dealer lots for general sale after reservations are filled). That might be next summer, or even fall, depending on how many reservations get filled vs canceled.
That is correct. It also gives one "more" time to compare the MME to other new(er) BEV, new technology and how the charging network is evolving.
Which is almost surely what I'm going to do now. I was never really comfortable with the idea of placing an actual order without first seeing the car and reading some actual reviews. But I wasn't sure that there might not be a way to do that, depending on how and when the unknown order process worked. And frankly, that's still possible since we still really don't know for sure how this is all going to work. But it seems likely there will be a reservation-to-order window that will open and close in the next few months.
You are right but they still want you to check in the dealer I would think once a year for inspection. I believe it is 2 years for Tesla .
Appreciate the info.
With the potential Ford leasing program for the Mach E, what would be the expected payment for a $58,700 version eligible for the Federal Tax refund?
With the lease like from Ford, you would get the Federal Tax refund and so that would not impact the "lease" payment if you are eligible or not, just how much money get back/owe when you do your taxes.
