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Those $7.5K rebates are available to any and all EV manufacturers for the first 200,000 vehicles they sell. It's not a government gift to Tesla exclusively. Two quarters after the manufacturer reaches 200,000 vehicles, the tax credit is cut in half. Two quarters later it is cut to 25 percent. At the start of the sixth quarter after the limit is reached, the tax credit disappears completely. Tesla is getting close to the 200,000 mark and may have passed it already. Which means that the rebates on the Model 3 at this time may be less than $7.5K.

No tax money should be paid for anyone making $100k to buy any car.

 

[two_bit_score]

And ‘conartistry’

That would be Congress.

Not too sure about that. It was during the obama regime and I think when obama had complete control of Congress that the EV rebates came about though.

 

[sd455dan]

Depends if the scientist is on the payroll to 菟rove and ice age, global warming, climate change or what ever the next new term is . How about those flooded coastal cities that were promised a couple of decades ago.

Yeah- like when the Bush white house rewrote the scientists findings..
from the times article:

In handwritten notes on drafts of several reports issued in 2002 and 2003, the official, Philip A. Cooney, removed or adjusted descriptions of climate research that government scientists and their supervisors, including some senior Bush administration officials, had already approved. In many cases, the changes appeared in the final reports.

The dozens of changes, while sometimes as subtle as the insertion of the phrase "significant and fundamental" before the word "uncertainties," tend to produce an air of doubt about findings that most climate experts say are robust.

Mr. Cooney is chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the office that helps devise and promote administration policies on environmental issues.

Before going to the White House in 2001, he was the "climate team leader" and a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, the largest trade group representing the interests of the oil industry.

A lawyer with a bachelor's degree in economics, he has no scientific training..

 

[sd455dan]

frankly I'll side with industry, over government. I like my gas, my computer, my phone, my pad. Can you imagine government involved in those things how they might look or work. You'ed be in line like in communist Russia for a chicken.

Some of those advancements can be traced directly to the Apollo program

ie (Government) inertial guidance navigation- Apollo flight computer (the 1st use of IC's in a computer), miniaturization of computers cameras, radios...

 

[houstonscott]

I think EV price drops will hurt Tesla.

 

[two_bit_score]

I think EV price drops will hurt Tesla.

They may be bankrupt in a year if the pyramid scheme gets sufficient exposure.

 

[CincyFlyer]

No tax money should be paid for anyone making $100k to buy any car.

Then it shouldn't be given to anyone. Those making the highest wages pay the most taxes; indeed, most of the taxes.

 

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Then it shouldn't be given to anyone. Those making the highest wages pay the most taxes; indeed, most of the taxes.

We agree.

 

[MossRoad]

94% of Tesla buyers make over $100,000 per yer and recoup $7,500 in tax rebates per car. Taxpayers should not be paying for anyone making $100,000 per year to buy a car.

You know you're telling a guy with solar panels not to take tax rebates, right?

 

[tomato coupe]

The laws of physics dictating anodes, cathodes, electrolyte, electrical insulation, thermal dissipation, current carrying capacity , durability , number of recharges , loss of capacity, resistance to vibration , cost and keeping the lithium from bursting into flame .

Physics dictates the energy density of existing battery technology will not reach the energy density of fossil fuels. It does not preclude the development of new technologies that reach or exceed the energy density of fossil fuels.