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SHOULD I BUY OR LEASE A TESLA? PART 3: It is not black-and-white (because we do not know the future)

In my last post, I showed that the total cost of buying a Tesla with a loan (or cash) is easy to figure out. However the final value is critically dependent upon one thing:...

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