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  through leasing. This is no coincidence, but a rational approach to risk minimization.
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  leasing. This is no coincidence, but r
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# Two thirds of all electric vehicles in the commercial sector are financed through leasing. This is no coincidence, but r

Two thirds of all electric vehicles in the commercial sector are financed through leasing. This is no coincidence, but a rational approach to risk minimization.

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Two thirds of all electric vehicles in the commercial sector are financed through leasing. This is no coincidence, but a rational approach to risk minimization.  
  
In boardrooms and treasury departments, the same question keeps coming up: Does a classic operating lease for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) actually make economic sense, or is accelerated tax depreciation the smarter route for the fleet?  
  
Accelerated depreciation sounds extremely tempting at first glance:  
The ability to claim 75% of acquisition costs as a tax deduction in the very first year is highly attractive to many.  
  
What is often overlooked in the tax analysis, however, is this: it is purely a timing effect. The total amount of depreciation over the years remains identical.  
And the real problem is not solved by it.  
  
Because a completely different question — one that is regularly underestimated — is far more critical:  
  
🔹 What is a battery electric vehicle actually worth on the secondary market after three or four years?  
🔹 Developments in battery technology, range, and new cell generations are moving at a rapid pace — everyone is working on 800V platforms, and some OEMs have already introduced them.  
🔹 Reliable, historically grounded residual value forecasts are barely possible under these dynamic market conditions.  
  
Anyone who purchases a BEV — whether from cash flow, via a bank loan, or through a classic hire purchase agreement — activates the asset on their balance sheet and assumes this massive technological residual value risk in full.  
  
With an operating lease (mileage-based leasing), on the other hand, the remarketing risk remains with the lessor, who naturally prices this in — but is also better positioned to hedge against it.  
  
This very shift in risk exposure likely explains why, according to the German Leasing Association (Bundesverband der Deutschen Leasinggesellschaften), around two thirds of all BEVs are financed through leasing. This is not out of habit, but for sound economic reasons.  
  
👉 Are you currently planning the electrification or expansion of your corporate fleet?  
👉 Do you have the residual value risk on your radar?  
  
Let's talk!

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