- This $229 per month lease deal is available in California, New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Washington, Massachusetts, Maryland, Oregon, Rhode Island, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C.
- The promotion ends on Jan. 2, 2025.
I don’t like every electric vehicle. In fact, I’m pretty sure the rest of the InsideEVs crew would be hard-pressed to put their finger on an electric that I would explicitly like. However, I am a very value-oriented person, and I know a good deal when I see one. I’m not the Honda Prologue’s best friend, but at $229 a month, I understand why so many people are signing on the line. That’s a really good deal.
And recently, Honda has expanded this really cheap EV lease deal once only found in California to more states.
According to a report from CarsDirect, Honda’s cheapest lease deal is $229 for 36 months with $1,299 due at signing. This price assumes the Prologue is $48,795, including a $1,000 bonus for current Honda (or competing brand) lessees. Miles are limited to 10,000 per year. This is a pretty crazy deal for a nearly-$50,000 car.
If you’re not eligible for the $1,000 cash for competing lessees, the price jumps to $259 per month. Still, that’s a pretty strong deal. For a long time, this special lease was only in California, but now it’s making its way across the U.S. and can be found in 17 different states, including, strangely, West Virginia.
By comparison, only a handful of other EVs can match the Prologue’s value. The similarly-sized VinFast VF8 may beat the Prologue’s price, but that crossover’s 264-mile range can’t touch the 291 miles of the Prologue. (And I'm going to go ahead and venture a guess that the VinFast won't give you the same level of dependability.) The Toyota BZ4X can be dirt cheap in some regions, but it’s real-world range and efficiency numbers are downright lousy.
On paper, the Prologue is one of the best deals in the business. It’s not hard to see why it’s been such a relatively hot seller for both Honda and EVs in general. Honda moved 12,644 during Q3, with only the Ford Mustang Mach-E and Tesla Model Y outselling the Prologue.
However, even if you’re not in a state that is privy to the EV lease deal, like myself writing from Ohio, the Prologue’s lease is still cheap. In other the Prologue is being advertised for as little as $259 per month, with $2,999 due at signing, with the same mileage allotment as the $229 per-month lease found in other states.
We’ve only got about a month left in the year. Will Honda export its $229-per-month lease to other states? Here’s hoping it’ll happen before the EV tax credit is potentially phased out under a new Trump administration.
Contact the author: kevin.williams@insideevs.com
