I would argue you’re looking at it from the wrong end. Even with the credits, even the basic EVs and plug ins are still pretty expensive. After the credit, you’re probably looking at roughly $30k. It’s not like manufacturers are making tons off these models, they sell at low volumes and they don’t make enough to even…

You’re correct... you have to actually be paying $7500 a year in taxes for this credit to be worth doing. Of course, you also have to make enough to afford a $30,000 EV in the first place...

Some lessors do return the credit (partial or complete) to the buyer. I think Ally is GM’s preferred lessor and was known for returning most of the credit to the buyer. I was Volt shopping at one point, $5,000-$6,000 rings a bell.

The credit goes away automatically. Once the manufacturer hits 200,000 EVs sold, it enters a wind-down period where it cuts down to 50% credit for 6 months, then 25% credit for 6 months, then ends.

Next step is to call the cops. That’s insane.

This. I’d buy a Buell but like hell I’ll ever own a Harley. Having seen them and known their owners, I have no desire to join that overpriced shitty club. There’s multiple better, cheaper options and I’ll take those time and time again over a HD.

PS - putting an automatic into gear at speed does nothing notable. It just goes into gear and the TC slips until the engine RPMs are where they should be. Most modern cars have the transmission controlled by the ECM (technically then a PCM), so they aren’t going to let you do anything unsafe or damaging.

If that’s happened in your manual cars, you’ve had shitty synchros. Even my abused winter beater (Cavalier) with 230k miles goes into the appropriate gear at any speed without any noises. And if you’re driving a manual and don’t know what gear to select at your current speed, perhaps said person should be driving an…

Yes, but you lose more overall energy to pumping losses than you would expend in fuel to maintain 700rpm idle.

Isn’t that true for any highly attended event? I can’t remember the last nearby event I left that didn’t suck.

Why would it be not “in the city”? It’s 8 minutes north of the convention center, which is in the downtown core.

You could probably cram it west of Huntington park in that undeveloped land at the end of Nationwide Blvd, but traffic and parking would be a bitch.

How does the parking suck? There’s a shit ton of it surrounding the stadium. Imagine if they crammed a new stadium in the arena district, THEN parking would suck.

Nothing around here is going to beat an Ohio State football game. You can reliably visit almost any business in Columbus during an OSU game and find it deserted (unless they are showing the game, then it could be busy). Only the handful of diehard local fans will care if the Crew moves. The rest will just keep…

Columbus resident here, I say fuck em. The stadium is just fine. It’s 8 minutes north of downtown, directly off an interstate, and it’s near a shit ton of parking as it is next door to the state fairgrounds/expo center.

You wouldn’t have to do any of that in a manual or automatic transmission. In a manual, you have the clutch and syncros to level out the RPMs, and in an automatic, the torque converter will slip when you put the gear selector in D/Drive until the engine is at the right speed.

Not exactly, but getting there. Under certain conditions, the engine can shut off the fuel injectors, so the engine is not consuming any fuel to spin. At that point it’s using the kinetic energy of the spinning wheels/vehicle mass to spin the engine and belt accessories.

Yes, but you’ll have pumping losses when in gear that you wouldn’t have if the car was in neutral.

They still do that in my neck of the woods. One station changes the price and nearly all will have their price changed to match in 12 hours or less. It seems even faster now that things like Gasbuddy exist.

It’s easy to do in my neck of the woods. Sometimes stations across the street from each other will huge price differences. If not across the street, then one .5 mile or less down the road may.