About EV Trusted Lease Guide

About EV Trusted Lease Guide

EV Trusted Lease Guide is a free monthly consumer guide designed to make electric vehicle leasing easier to understand and compare. The current Guide is provided by email upon request. We do not retain or sell the personal information you submit.

Manufacturer EV lease advertisements can be difficult to compare. A low monthly payment may look attractive until the lease term, mileage allowance, and amount due at signing are considered. EV Trusted Lease Guide was created to evaluate advertised offers consistently and present the results in a clear, easy-to-understand format.

Owen Shaw, a nine-time EV owner, is a retired systems engineer, former loan officer, and former car salesman with decades of automotive and consumer experience. He created EV Trusted Lease Guide by combining that experience with a systematic research process and AI-assisted research and analysis to help consumers make informed EV leasing decisions.

Independent by Design

EV Trusted Lease Guide is independently produced. We have no affiliation with the automakers, dealerships, or captive finance companies whose lease offers we evaluate. Qualifying offers are evaluated using the same methodology regardless of manufacturer.

We are a small, independent project rather than a large automotive website. Our focus is narrow by design: finding and comparing qualifying EV lease offers and producing a useful monthly Guide for consumers interested in driving electric is our goal.

What EVs and Lease Deals Do We Evaluate?

Each month, we evaluate battery-electric vehicles offered in the U.S. market and search for qualifying manufacturer or captive-finance advertised lease offers.

We use manufacturer-advertised lease terms—including monthly payment, lease term, mileage allowance, and amount due at signing—to evaluate qualifying offers consistently.

The results become the monthly EV Trusted Lease Guide, which includes our Top 10 most affordable EV lease deals, detailed information about those offers, and a broader view of the EV lease market.

Because EV lease offers and incentives change frequently, the research is refreshed each month rather than relying on an older list of deals.

How Do We Compare EV Lease Deals?

The advertised monthly payment tells only part of the story. We also consider the lease term, mileage allowance, and amount due at signing.

Total Outlay is our measure of the complete advertised lease cost over the full lease term. Effective Monthly Cost divides that Total Outlay by the lease term, giving us a consistent way to compare offers that may be advertised very differently.

This approach helps shoppers look beyond the headline monthly payment and better understand the overall financial commitment represented by an advertised lease.