That’s because the Chinese play the long game and invest in the future while we fight over crap like DEI and which bathrooms people use, and start all over again every 4 years.

This. Everybody else is moving ahead, while we’re moving backwards.

As someone who grew up around rural US, I can say that a lot of the time it’s really bad here too. Go visit some hollers in the deep south and see what you find. Better slap a Trump sticker on your car before you try though if you want to feel safe.

Meanwhile, Trump is probably noodling around with his sharpie to design an oil drilling rig for the Space Force.

What we need to do here is some misdirection. We can probably harness his ire for anything bearing the prefix trans into doing some real good for people. Just slap that prefix on actual problems, even if it doesn’t make sense.  Start the Orange Idiot talking about trans-fats and see what we can do for people’s diets.

I’m about to just start learning Mandarin and be done with it. The communist party is terrible, but on the whole they are getting shit done and quality of life for the people there is growing like crazy.

Thankfully our government is worried about immigrants and trans people, so we can lose our shit to China in yet another technology race.

Good thing the Ioniq is better in about every way and $100 cheaper 😅

This is to Andy and the other authors. THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for keeping this article (and others like it) as lists rather than a slide show.

This is a side effect of anti-Chinese sentiment. In Australia we’re about to see EVs from companies like BYD get down to $30k - that’s around $20-22k US.

The comments I’ve read by reviewers seem to indicate the new infotainment system works pretty well. I’m personally skeptical, as GM has a lot riding on the acceptance of their “in-house” system (was designed in partnership with Google).

The Chevy Equinox EV actually seems like the first EV from a traditional car company that’s finally competitive with its non-EV siblings, but alas no Carplay.

He can’t rid of them unilaterally, Congress has to repeal them. But they can repeal them retroactive to January 1, 2025. Given the tight margins in Congress, it’s not a sure thing. But it’s certainly a possibility one cannot rule out.

If you liked the model you owned, you can go hunting for the same one on the used market. So many EV’s are leases with similar terms that you will have a decent amount to choose from when yours is up.

Even if residual is higher than buyout you can usually still buy it at current value. Depends a bit on the lease company, but if they know what it is truly worth, most of the time they will sell it to you at that price instead of trying to auction it off or something like that. It is all just a big “it depends”.

Under the old Obama-era rebate system, GM and Tesla had both exceeded the unit cap. The IRA tax credits have no unit cap.

I (not a professional) think it’s risky on a purchase, even right now before he takes office. Whether you buy the car today, when they the rebates are valid, or in 2 weeks after he gets rid of them on his 2nd day in office, it’s all filed under the 2025 tax year. At the end of the day, you still need to qualify for…

I have a used ex rental Tesla that did 95% of it’s charging on DCFCs (scan my Tesla). After 120k miles of DCFC it has a grand total of 7% battery degradation. Stop fear mongering about DCFC. It’s a non issue.

Right - for reference, the lease agreement for my wife’s EVquinox shows something like $35k for the buyout at the end. That’s on a $43k car. The leases are cheap because they are using the point-of-sale tax credit to makeup for half of the depreciation, but absolutely no one is buying these out at the end of the lease.

So are the rebates locked in until at least 2026, or can legislation steal them away at any time this year? Seems kinda shitty if a person buys a car today expecting a rebate only for Drumph to cartoonishly scribble his name on a piece of paper with a giant sharpie and steal it away.