[THEsocalledfan]

Good grief Biden. Used ev incentives will only drive the used market price higher and those vehicles will be bought regardless. Basic economics. Focus on the new vehicles thereby increasing the fleet.... that should be the focus along with getting the dc charging network beefed up with the money you already have improve. Network is a flipping joke where I live.

 

[BroncoAZ]

I take issue with union produced vehicles receiving different incentives from other vehicles produced in the US. Too much of a direct payback to big labor for political support. The car manufacturers don’t need the handout, if they make a good product the market will be there incentives or not.

 

[GDN]

I take issue with union produced vehicles receiving different incentives from other vehicles produced in the US. Too much of a direct payback to big labor for political support. The car manufacturers don’t need the handout, if they make a good product the market will be there incentives or not.

I agree with you. Truly felt this was nothing more than true politics at its finest, who can buy you. It's pretty evident here nothing is really just or fair.

These rebates are not for the consumer, they truly just line the pockets of the big companies. As much as I love Tesla they proved it. It was planned from the beginning. The Model 3 was priced and we bought. We received the $7500. What was interesting as the 200,000 cars were met and the rebate dropped, the selling price of the car dropped too. Not by $3750 exactly, but there was a price drop of a couple thousand. A few months later another "price adjustment". Tesla essentially took the money right from the government through the consumer.

On a whole different look at it - if you look at the popular EV's, those with styling, with range, with what most consumers want to buy, they don't need an incentive. There are long lines of people waiting to buy them. They are popular, they will be bought with or without the rebate. The government is just printing money that we can't afford to print.

It's not like they are helping adoption into a lower tax bracket. If you are out buying a vehicle above $50K, you don't have truly serious financial worries for the most part.

 

[MacMerritt]

I just wish they hadnt bundled the EV incentives in with the whole BBB package. Its so hard to sell a giant boatload of BS when there are some really beneficial things that should be sold in smaller easier to digest and understand initiatives.

Broad sweeping changes are a grandiose act but rarely achieve their desired effect due to politicking and losing sight of their goal by so many items being bundled together.

 

[ChasingCoral]

I just wish they hadnt bundled the EV incentives in with the whole BBB package. Its so hard to sell a giant boatload of BS when there are some really beneficial things that should be sold in smaller easier to digest and understand initiatives.

Broad sweeping changes are a grandiose act but rarely achieve their desired effect due to politicking and losing sight of their goal by so many items being bundled together.

Discussions are underway where Congress is considering breaking BBB up into smaller chunks. We'll see if that gets anywhere.