This is good advice, but a 6-8 year old car that sells for $8-10k won’t be worth $3k when it is 15-16 years old - it will be worth $1500-2000, tops.

I follow this same basic model when I think about car costs - I generally buy new, then take the cost and depreciate it over 15 years to tell me how much to save up per…

Student loan debt shouldn’t have helped you itemize - that is something that comes off “above the line” on line 33 of your 1040.

Things to itemize would be medical and dental expenses (only that portion above 10% of your adjusted gross income, not counting pre-tax expenses), state and local income or sales taxes (one…

Correct.

The simple way to think of it is that your commute to/from work is not deductible, but all commuting while at work is.

So, for example, I normally work at location A but occasionally I have to start the day at location B for a meeting. The drive from my house to location B is not deductible, just like the drive…

Tom is right - it doesn’t matter if your car is for business or personal use (though if you’re self-employed and have an incorporated business, things can get tricky) - if you bought a car for your work commute, you can deduct any sales tax paid on the car (not other fees, mind you). The one thing to watch out for,…

Hell... this thing was well under $25k and it sure as hell stands out.

Ah... Ohio doesn’t give a flip about giving any subsidies or special treatment, and there’s always the risk that our regressive idiotic governor and legislature decide to penalize you for doing something like buying an EV.

Got the 2300D over Christmas from Amazon for $40. It would be nice to have wifi on it, but at that price, I can’t complain, and it has been flawless....

Got the 2300D over Christmas from Amazon for $40. It would be nice to have wifi on it, but at that price, I can’t…

Sorry, but no way in hell is Trump (or anyone left on the GOP side) better than Hillary.

And I don’t like her one bit.

Except that when they switched from the Navigator/Expedition to the Focus, they completely gutted the plant. The tooling for the Nav/Ex was not flexible, whereas what they put in for the Focus *is*. Some pieces need to be changed, but shockingly little.

Except that their US plants are almost entirely flexible at this point. It won’t be hard for them to switch from the Ranger back to the Focus.

Who said he isn’t?

He brags about funding his own campaign, but the truth is that he’s taking in large amounts of contributions and he’s only LOANED his campaign money. He can have the campaign pay himself back with contributions taken from others.

N : Who’s right? Based on the market, Ford is right. Trump may be right that our trade treaties encourage this move, but Ford has to remain competitive. And by attacking Ford, Trump actually is working to do more harm to the US job market. Ford employs more Americans per car sold in the US than any foreign maker, by a…

What area do you live in where the Leaf isn’t discounted?

Salespeople only care about one thing - lining their pockets. Whether they do so by selling you an EV or an IC vehicle, they really could care less. The problem is almost none of them have a clue about vehicles in general, but know enough to tell people “this has a V6 instead of a V4* so its better”.

As for resistance…

The Bolt does have direct DC capability. The problem is simply in the format of the connector (easily resolved) combined with getting the communications right between the car and the charger to control the rate of charge. No reason why Tesla can’t design the connector (since it isn’t a proprietary GM design) and sell…

Sure - but most of that points to the pure ignorance of dealers, not actually forming resistance to selling them.

To be fair, that’s a problem with any hybrid or EV. If you buy a Tesla, you’re a slave to their service departments, which are far from cheap, btw (when you have to pay). Hell, their year 2 service of a multi-point inspection (those things are damned near useless everywhere), tire rotation, alignment check, cabin air…

The problem with the Volt is a high MSRP that isn’t exactly reflective of actual purchase price. Pretty much every fall you can pick one up from the outgoing model year for around $28-29k before tax credits.... Other times of the year you can get them around $31k before tax credits.

People think they’re much more…

Just as a reality check, you can get a Nissan Leaf here for $26,543 before tax credits without any haggling through TrueCar. That’s $8,500 cheaper than the cheapest Model 3, and available today.

$8,500 justifies quite a bit of differences.

No reason Tesla can’t make adapters for their network to sell to Bolt owners and offer charging at a price... give themselves some profit to try to keep themselves in business...