I filled up my daily for what may be the last time yesterday. Lease ends 5/31. Next car will be an BEV.

Keystone XL would not go where Colonial goes. How would it help?

That Previa. Ugh.

+1 on the lease.

penalize them

We should be making batteries / EVs more efficient. Let’s push the envelope further with the tech, not subsidize half-measures.

Agreed.  That’s why these ‘free marketeers’, politicians and all, need to STFU about “SUBSIDIES” to EVs.

If you have the tax liability, I suppose you can make that work.

Bolts are already discounted heavily. They can be had for under $20k here in MA.

There’s only one fair solution: stop all EV credits and actually let the marketplace decide.

PHEVs should also NOT qualify any longer.

truly letting the marketplace decide would mean, of course, having no EV subsidy at all

My first car was a 1990 Camry, maroon exterior with maroon interior, FWD, automatic. Burned oil like no tomorrow, but never left me stranded. Paid $5200 for it with ~105k on it in 1996 and traded it in at $2500 with ~150k in 2001.

For $3k, its a NP.

It’s like buying Quaker Oat Meal.  

There have been rural poor far longer than urban poor. But them having any car is relatively recent.  Many traveled by foot or horse if they could afford one.

The same could be said for having a battery with a capacity of over 50 miles

That is probably true.  I’ve already read stories of folks trading in old jalopy ICE vehicles for 10 year old Leafs that can be had for cheap.  Not everyone needs more than 100 miles of range, and these EVs are cheap to own.

I’m willing to bet lower income people were the last to ditch their horses too. Actually, scratch that. Lower income people back then probably didn’t have horses. They lived in dense urban environments with streetcars and room on the streets to walk.

just exist to enrich their executives.