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I own a Nissan LEAF. A new Nissan LEAF only costs $199 per month to lease after the federal rebate. It's cheaper in some states.

If you currently spend over $100 per month on gasoline and charge the LEAF offpeak, you could think of it as a less capable $10k Tesla after rebates and gas and maintenance savings.

Not a Telsa but my Chevy Volt lease payment after rebates etc. is less than my cable bill; plus I get carpool stickers which down here in SoCal are priceless. My first American car after many Japanese and one German, and it's the most solid of the lot.

How high is your cable bill? I don't see the Volt leasing for anything under $200. My cable bill is $80. What am I doing wrong, or what are you doing right?

> after rebates etc.

Buy a motorcycle. 10k probably won't get you any new car, and certainly not a luxury sedan.

I went this route. I love my bike, but I'm probably paying a good bit of the difference on traffic tickets/lawyers and being boned by bad weather. The weather is probably a non issue in the Bay Area though. There's also that first accident thats probably in my near future to look forward to...