I love my old electric car.
Posted on 07/13/2025 8:16:24 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
With the impending expiration of the $7,500 EV tax credit, Tesla and Ford are desperately pushing potential buyers to make their purchases before the September 30 deadline. Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill has ended the EV handout, much to the dismay of Elon Musk, Ford, and others trying to sell EVs to Americans who have not embraced the technology.
Business Insider reports that the race is on for automakers to sell as many EVs as possible before the $7,500 tax credit, a crucial incentive for buyers, comes to an end on September 30. President Donald Trump’s recently passed Big Beautiful Bill is set to eliminate this subsidy, which has played a significant role in making EVs more attractive to consumers.
In response to the looming deadline, Tesla and Ford are taking proactive measures to capitalize on the last-minute surge in demand. Tesla’s website prominently features a banner warning potential buyers about the expiring tax credit and urging them to take delivery by the end of September. Elon Musk’s EV giant is also reportedly sending out emails to would-be customers, emphasizing the importance of completing their purchases before the deadline to qualify for the $7,500 discount.
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I love my old electric car.
Funny enough - electric vehicles came before internal combustion vehicles. In 1900 gas and electric vehicles competed head to head.....and electric lost for the same reasons it loses today:
batteries cannot hold the same energy density as gasoline and have a shorter range
"refueling" takes longer in electric
electric vehicles tend to be more expensive
“Ford has a HUGE battery plant on I-65 in Kentucky that is just now about to open up.......”
I just read Nissan is going utilize the same Plant as there is capacity and Nissan needs to reduce tariff costs on their domestic builds.
Just wait until all those Chinese EVs in the EU start Exploding
Contrast that to my old truck with two gas tanks, and one of them has a couple dents in it, but it still works fine. If I do decide to replace it, probably about $150.
That does not surprise me a bit. Lots of excess capacity.
Your response: They didn’t have to subsidize gas cars to sell them.
Do you think Sleepy Joe Biden's handlers created the $7,500 EV tax credit for Musk and Tesla? Democrat Sleepy Joe's handlers absolutely despise Musk and Tesla. Sleepy Joe held EV Summit Meetings at the White House and invited automaker CEOs (except for Musk who Biden's handlers banned from those White House EV summit meetings). Democrat Biden's handlers tried to politically force Musk and Tesla into unionizing (and Musk refused). Don't you recall tons of Democrats and psycho-liberals wildly fire-bombing Tesla dealerships and torching Tesla EVs in the U.S. and around the world just a couple of months ago?
So given Democrat Sleepy Joe's handlers didn't create the EV tax credits for Tesla and Musk, who did Biden's handlers create those EV tax credits for? They created the EV tax credits for Volkswagen, Kia, Ford, Genesis, Nissan, GM, Hyundai, and Acura. Tesla's EVs were selling well and didn't need any tax credits. All of those foreign companies' EVs were eligible for U.S. EV tax credits in the U.S. The Biden Administration was actually incentivizing American consumers into buying foreign cars instead of American ones. Musk even said at the time that he thought Democrat Sleepy Joe's EV tax credits made no sense. Musk's company was heavily outselling all other companies trying to make EVs before the EV tax credits and it will continue hugely outselling all other companies trying to make EVs in the future without the tax credits.
But I guess what some people are saying on this thread fits in with Trump's statement (influenced by Steve Bannon) that he needs to seriously look into having the U.S. government heavily investigate all of Musk's American companies (SpaceX, xAI, Tesla, Twitter, etc.) and even consider Steve Bannon's advice that President Trump should kick Musk out of the country and send him back to South Africa where he belongs. (And I agree ... down with American innovation. Let other countries innovate. But if Trump kicks Musk out of the U.S. and sends him back to South Africa where he belongs, then I guess Trump will have to revert to relying on Russia to launch rockets and send U.S. astronauts into space just like before SpaceX. God knows NASA is incapable of doing so.
That's the WHOLE point.
The Climate nuts will pay $ 100,000 and then get the beautiful Climate Cult White
There’s a great historic photo of Palo Alto, California at my clinic that was taken around 1900. It shows a two lane dirt road in town with a big, mature tree smack in the middle of the road and a horse and buggy driving around the tree. The caption says the horses were smart enough to go around the tree but the tree had to be removed in a later year because early automobile drivers kept running into the tree.
It'll work because eventually Americans will use Waymo vehicles. We're at the point where government will eventually ban us from driving our personal vehicles.
Maybe 20 years.
If an electric car meets your needs there’s nothing wrong with them. The technology is kind of cool.
And it’s safer for going to Publix from the Villages than a golf cart.
For winter here in Central NH, not so much. But it’s a personal choice, not a moral issue.
Have fun plugging it in if you charge in NYS.
NYSSG is asking for a two digit percentage rate hike.
Okay.
Not a moral issue if you don’t have a prob with child labor used to mine the material for EV batteries.
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