Yeah, the current credit is a non-refundable credit, so you can only get as much credit as your total tax liability for the year. It’s not an instant discount, but it’s certainly a consideration for buyers. Also, that it’s not an instant discount makes it even LESS likely that the Silverado would be priced so much…

Definitely a consideration, but $30,400? No chance. That’s basically the same price as the absolute cheapest, regular cab, stripper Silverado. Further, they wouldn’t risk pricing it that low anyway. They’ll price it just below the Lightning for MSRP and then discount it, if anything... like the Bolt, which was…

I’d be interested to know where the $30,400 number came from for the Silverado. The Lighting is listed as $39,970, which is the pre-tax credit price, so do they really think a Silverado will be $30,400 BEFORE tax credit. If the $12,500 credit passes, it will be $18k? Cheaper MSRP than the Bolt? $9k cheaper than the…

As an aside, I live in Florida. An issue (very quietly) has come up. Hurricane Evacuation. Got an ICE? Tanker trucks stationed along the route to give you gas. Electric? You be screwed.

Dealers are definitely going to need DC Fast Chargers to service EVs, too.

And Casey’s have like 12 put.ps at many locations, even if you get charging times down to roughly twice the time it takes to gas up, you need to double the number of pumps charging stations if we start leaning electric.

I wouldnt recommend anyone who travels to use any other car right now, and probably for the next 3-5 years either.

261 kW is nice when you’re used to between 30 and 150, but it’s well shy of what the Taycan can accept and what the machine says it can deliver.

Yeah, coolest thing about the actual 40th Anniversary package was the painted side mirrors that were otherwise exclusive to the Cobra.

I actually preferred Zinc Yellow. I had a Zinc 2000 ZX2 S/R.

2003 Mach1 had black valve cover and a small sun glasses holder. 2004 got rid of those.

The point is that the federal government is not paying people to buy Teslas and Bolts, yet they account for 80% of EV sales... because they’re substantially better than what they already have.

Sure, although EVs usually try a harder on aero, which means bikes are a bigger hit. Further, you can fill up a gas car in 5 mins vs often charging at a measly ~35kW in a Leaf, which is only about 100 miles per hour, because its already mediocre ideal charge rate is even lower because of the lack of active battery…

Like I said, it depends on your use case.

Bike rack + EV = substantial hit to range

All the new Electrify America stations that I have seen installed near me have one CHAdeMo plug, so that should actually help a lot with the availability of fast-ish charging for the Leaf.

*Looks at Volvo XC40 Recharge in garage*

I disagree. They sold TM3's and TMY’s at a huge rate due to the backorder for both. Now that those orders have been met the other manufacturers are now in all of the same segments.

There are now multiple competitors for each of their vehicles. I’d have to think going forward their sales in markets like the US will actually decrease.

They probably will charge more than the bare cost, but the point is that the fees for not filling up with gas will likely be FAR higher... like the $10/gal you mention, thus making the re-charge fee seem cheap in comparison. I guess we’ll see when it actually happens.