The thing that is going to drive AV5 is the Boomers.
I think the biggest problem with autonomous driving features is that it is hard to drill into consumers that these are assistants, safety aids in case you f*ck up bad. Unfortunately, it doesn’t meld well with marketing to say “hey this car can practically drive itself. . . but you really need to pay attention!” I have…
Tax credit does not equal rebate. You can only claim a tax credit if you have a liability (owe) taxes and even then you can only use the credit for up to what you owe. Meaning you would have to owe $7500 in taxes to actually claim the full tax credit, if you owe $2500 congrats you get $2500. You can only apply the…
What Biden should be doing is eliminating subsidies for the oil companies. They’re keeping prices artificially high to maximize profit for their shareholders at the expense of the general public, who indirectly finance them through these subsidies.
Evolutionary exterior update is a bit generous, no? Tesla has only done refreshes and hasn’t done an actual all new version of any existing model yet. Calling the Model S 1 year old is like calling a Charger Jailbreak a 1 year old design cause it too has different suspension, engine, body and interior than when the LD…
Just my opinion on aesthetics but I’ve always considered them bland, even when they were new.
Of course most of them do, but it’s long past time to stop pretending that direct sales is any better for the consumer. Either way, they are losing. Unless you think Tesla’s costs actually justify the half dozen price increases they’ve passed through in the last two years.
If they want to play it that way, take one look at how much money goes to subsidizing fossil fuels. An astonishing amount of money! I am not going to buy an electric car to charge it up for free, I dont expect that to be the case in the future, but this is pennies compared to what the gov’t pays for fossil fuels.
I don’t know that much about EV charging but i’m pretty most of that applies to them too.
New Jersey.
Of course your satiric point is well-taken and 100% correct, but on a slightly more serious note I much prefer real demonstrations to just vaporware announcements. Seems we get someone announcing a new battery technology every 3 days. Of course 600 mi range is unnecessary but maybe that means 300 mile range in 1/2 the…
I’m not anti electric car but this kind of advancement in battery tech would absolutely make it feasible for me to have an electric car that met 100% of my needs.
Good luck with that, as long as we have the industry wide chip shortage and all the other supply chain issues too. And as a former dealer service manager (and ex GM master tech) who assigned all the prep and PDI on every new vehicle we sold - nobody wants to buy stripped new cars or trucks. That stuff is sales lot…
Just have it for a certain amount of years, or do what Canada does and make it only for vehicles under a certain price, or certain income limits.
Because prices will not change, and the manufacturers will pocket the 7K extra on every EV sold.
My hesitation with that is if you give the money outright to a company, and they decide to add new and improved “service fees” to the MSRP or some sort of fee-laundering to make the EV’s cost the same.
The issue is it’s not a refundable tax credit - the buyer actually has to have at least that much tax liability to be able to use the whole thing. Thus the six-figure income finding. I expect transferring the tax credits to companies currently earning record profits would not be well received by the general public…
... or, I dunno, raise the minimum wage and pay people livable wages?
How about instead of the consumer having to wait until it’s time to do their taxes to claim the credit, just give the credit straight to the manufacturer, and require they lop off that cost from the price of the vehicle? I know that’s wishful thinking at best, but having EVs be just straight-up cheaper out the door…