Please can anyone advise on the cost of leasing a new EV car such as a Citroen Berlingo in France for 2 or 3 years?
I’m in the process of buying a house in north Aquitaine to relocate and wish to set up a business. Leasing rather than buying a new left hand drive car will be more affordable.
Thank you, John
You need to go and visit a few dealerships and speak to them in person. Ads on TV constantly give leasing prices but no details and also your personal financial circumstances can impact on what you are allowed to do. Obviously the more expensive make and models cost more per month but smaller and second hand vehicles considerably less. Never done any leasing, allways preferred to buy the vehicle outright and have no worries especially at the end of the term and also as my daughter said some years back, you never feel like the vehicle belongs to you.
I already understand the process of leasing a vehicle, it’s the same in most countries. I asked for an estimate of the costs. The fact you admit you have never leased a car, should make you realise, you wouldn’t be qualified to provide me with any helpful advice. Why did you even bother replying?
If you want helpful replies here, it’s a good idea to be gracious or at least ignore responses that you don’t find useful.
@Shiba is right - how long is a piece of string?
We have a lease hire arrangement and are paying 500 euros a month. But that is no more helpful a reply than the one you have dismissed. 
Our car is 2 years old, I think purchased outright would have been about 20-25,000 euros.
As @Shiba says, much will depend on your personal circumstances, the local dealer and if a second hand car whether they want to shift it.
I would have thought you would not need to ask the question if …
By the way, our car is not an EV, so maybe my reply is no more helpful - hence talking to a dealer seems to be the best option. New family-sized EVs are still extraordinarily expensive. No idea how much the price drops after 2-3 years.
Bozo bin for you.
You can request quotes online on manufacturers’ sites. Some will want to contact you back and sell you, others will let you get to a quote. I think Dacia was the most useful and prices OK but I may be remembering my quote from the Germany version of the site rather than the French site.
Fiat also quotes some reasonable prices.
I suspect if you are setting up a French business and want a commercisl vehicle such as a light van, there will be some excellent deals available.
Also remember that due to manufacturer groupings a pretty much identical vehicle is sold under several different manufscturers names with different pricing and leasing deals according to brand but same vehicle underneath.
You’re right, your reply isn’t anymore helpful than Shiba’s. I specifically said EV for a reason. If you don’t know the answer to a question, don’t reply. It’s really very simple.
The day going well for you John?
Thank you for your advice. It might be simpler to ask UK car dealers to put me in touch with their counterparts in France, especially for French car makers.
You are a nasty man. I tried to answer you, having lived here over 30 plus years and bought several new and second hand vehicles. We cando without your sort here!!!
You have to do it in French on each car brand’s website. Each country operates differently you do not need introductions and they would be no good to you. Some websites do have a language option but not many.
Luckily the name of each manufscturer’s website is mostly easy to guess eg citroen fr, fiat.fr with Google.fr as a fallback to find them - they will come up in top results on a search. Asian manufacturers in particular might not have the name you would guess.
Unless you want to go to a set of towns and visit main dealers in person instead but I"d start online first even if you have to accept being contacted bsck. A new model or a flagging model may well hsve deals and once you get to know the leasing compsnies, you may well pick up a bargain if they have non-new vehicles to shift.
Make sure you’ve got a French phone number plugged in to receive calls eg a French SIM in a mobile in the UK will generally receive a call from France for free still currently. And only give your new French address. They won’t call you back otherwise or work with you except rarely.
I had a request from the OP to delete this thread as the responses were not « helpful ».
Having read through and seen how agressive the OP’s replies were, I’ve suspended the user in question. No further comments on the OP please 
but feel free to chat on about vehicle leasing!
Thanks !
Cat x
Thank you Cat. I was so shocked at the nastiest reply I have ever had on the site and there have been some horrible posters over the years, but none like that. Whatever response people make to a question, the OP should see the advice even if they don’t want it, after all he dosn’t live here when most of us do and have done for a long time so we are passing on info he may not have any clue about. Maybe I should have deviated to food response 
Shiba, that’s equally rude. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
This gives the basics. We w ere originally going to lease the battery of our EV but the costs didn’t stack up so we bought outright.