They're already going a long way toward making EV's look like a rich man's game - It's the $75K Tesla you see on the news 90% of the time and then the roughly $100K income requirement for the $7.5K rebate makes average car buyers feel like they're priced out of the new technology, which is a shame. A 60 mile range econo-EV would be perfect for low income folks with an average commute, but the current law benefits the rich instead of themPV1 said:If they do a rebate instead, I hope they don't follow Pennsylvania's way, where you get a rebate that comes from tax dollars, and the rebate itself is taxable income.
This may actually cause more backlash against EVs than improving sales. There's already a pretty widespread notion that EVs and renewables alike need government subsidies to sell. Many of us here know that this isn't necessarily true, but bad information spreads much faster than good information, unfortunately.
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