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Re:Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack by ProfessorLayton on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @06:26PM (#17913400)
Auto makers very much care about resale value since it is pretty much the entire basis upon which a lease is priced, which is a huge deal considering ~30% of new cars are leased.

Furthermore, almost 80% of electric cars are leased [1]. When electric cars aren't being made for compliance reasons, or to lower the overall emissions of an auto maker's fleet (and thus subsidized in some way), then resale value will be of critical importance.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-03/why-most-...

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Re:Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack by gpetukhov on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @10:52PM (#17914706)
that's only in the US
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Re:Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack by Godel_unicode on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @12:23AM (#17915019)
It's also exclusive of Tesla, who doesn't release lease vs buy numbers
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