Put ‘em all in jail.

Can we just ban diesels? Sorry guys, they may be cool and unique, but they will never be considered “clean”.

If people would take a minute to think about their opinions before spewing them on social media the world would be a much saner place.

“program that either pays manufacturers to develop them or citizens to buy them” 

How are you going to let them know that it will go away? By writing it into the law in the first place, exactly as this subsidy was written. Quoted directly from the article:

People who make less money tend to lease their EV. The leasing company claims the credit and applies it to the lease. Right now that credit has lead to some seriously cheap lease deals on EVs.

The primary target are the lower end cars like the Leaf and Bolt. It is an unintended consequence that rich people have the money and charging facilities for an electric car. That is like saying the Roth IRA should go away because only people with money have income to invest even though providing incentives for people…

Fair cop. So we need to get rid of the oil companies’ subsidies too, otherwise ICE has an unfair advantage with artificially lower gas prices.

Gas taxes are not currently paying for roads. They have not kept up with inflation.

The roads are heavily subsidized by the taxpayer. People who drive gas/diesel cars are getting just a slightly less free ride compared to EV’s on the back of non-drivers, but you don’t seem particularly upset about that.

If there was ever a poster child for environmentally government incentives, it would be corn subsidies. We encourage the excessive growth of a crop that is the direct cause of nitrogen runoff into the Mississippi River and causing the giant dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.

I’d say at best, this claim is dubious. Determinants of federal revenue are numerous and interact in complex ways, so attributing any change to a single factor is sketchy, but there’s a good amount of evidence that Reagan-era cuts were revenue-negative:

I think it’s funny that people think this screws Tesla. They were going to hit the phaseout rather quickly anyway, so most of the 400k M3 reservations probably wouldn’t benefit (not all of those are US but a lot are).

Plus most of their buyers are getting a tax cut that would equal the subsidies over 3 years (or less)…

Except for the fact that it MOSTLY helps people getting much cheaper Nissan Leafs and Chevy Bolts and etc...

What are the tax breaks for oil and gas companies? IS fair marked value given for timber, mining, grazing on public lands? Tax breaks for electric cars are ok to encourage technological innovation.

That Tesla being out of commission means potentially losing 33% of their rental business for the duration. If you owned property that someone damaged through gross negligence and it caused you to lose four times that value in income, wouldn’t you want to recover that income from the negligent party?

According to event attendees, the roadster did 50+ 0-60 launches nonstop at the reveal. It sounds like they might have addressed cooling already.

They’ve likely solved this for the new Roadster, if you look at videos of the demo rides they were giving out, the car was doing full throttle 0-74mph runs the entire night...the same car was doing it for rider after rider without power loss. Obviously this isn’t exactly like running it on a race track, but this…

Well this is just way too positive an article on Tesla for Jalopnik. I’ve been told that Jalopnik only ever publishes Tesla-hate content.