…Tesla - by far the nation’s biggest EV maker - have told a Trump-transition committee they support ending the subsidy…Elon Musk, one of Trump’s biggest backers and the world’s richest person, said in July that killing the subsidy might slightly hurt Tesla sales but would be “devastating” to its U.S. EV competitors, which include legacy automakers such as General Motors.
Jesus. So much for the idea that Tesla is working to accelerate the transition from ICE vehicles to EVs.
I will never buy a fucking Tesla. Ever. I would buy a Chevrolet Equinox EV, and I encourage anyone who is in the market for a new vehicle to buy one before the tax credit goes away.
Edit: I would also get the Honda Prologue. It’s also eligible for the $7,500 tax credit. So is the Volkswagen ID.4.
That truck Scout is planning looks really good for anyone in the pickup market.
I love the way those look
Are Teslas cheaper than the others?
After driving several Chevy vehicles over the years, I’d never buy one myself. Would definitely not trust them to make a good EV.
Their volt program was excellent. Gen 1 volts are tanks. I have a gen 1, and gen2. The gen2 has 1 big issues with a free recall to cover it. Still a great car.
Bolt is good too so far. I got one with a replaced battery from the recall.
Well that’s good. I still don’t trust Chevy’s build quality since every one I’ve driven in the last couple decades had problems bad enough for recalls. Also the interior trim of everything just feels cheap to me. We went with a Japanese PHEV instead
The VW ID4 is currently under a stop sale because it keeps catching on fire
That quote by Trump’s newest Oversight Member PROVES that there’s NOTHING Swampy going on in Trump’s Government!
In a world where everyone else in an NPC, everything lines up to prevent me from getting the nice thing I want within a short time of saving, yet again.
Y’all I don’t think this is the good place, and it sure ain’t earth
It’s profit margin
7.5k on a 30k EV is huge, and would lead to lots of sales.
No one stupid enough to pay 110k for a cyber shit will car about a 7.5k tax credit.
So Tesla might take a little hit, but it’s a huge disadvantage for affordable EVs
Tesla could have pursued an affordable model, but instead Elon pushed the robotaxi, and Elon said there was no need for an affordable Tesla model. If we assume that he actually expects to release the robotaxi at some point, and that he actually thinks it’s important for anything other than trying to pump up stock, then it certainly looks like his plans are more focused on fleet sales than trying to sell to consumers. Making cars less affordable across the board (and slashing any funding for public transportation) only helps that business model.
I think I saw a snippet from his biography where Franz (head designer) convinced Elon to make the car so it could also have a steering wheel so as to not get fucked if fsd doesn’t work out.
Supposedly took a lot of effort to convince him.
Guess that didn’t pan out in the end. Nothing about that car is designed for non robotaxi use.
Lots of people will never buy a Tesla, but when you order an Uber and that shitshow appears, you can only cancel so many times before the app gets mad at you for it.
Human drivers was always a temporary thing for those apps, they’ll keep squeezing human drivers so they don’t have to pay maintenance on vehicles, but the second Muskmobiles becomes popular, there goes the closest thing to a job that’s been keeping a lot of people afloat.
There’s going to be a real negative effect when those disappear, even tho they’re barely jobs to begin with.
Good, we should not continue to subsidize profits for private companies. Nobody that is actually in a place that NEEDS help buying a car will ever be in the market for a NEW car nevermind an EV, all these tax credits do is help well to do people justify buying a new car. If EVs can’t sell without the big credit, their not ready for the market anyways.
There’s a $4000 credit for qualifying used EVs.
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