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Proposed Changes to Federal EV Tax Credit – Part 2: End of the Manufacturer Sales Phaseout

EV Adoption

Arguably the biggest flaw in the Plug-In Electric Drive Vehicle Credit ( IRC 30D ) regulations is the triggering of a phaseout schedule of the tax credit when a manufacturer sells 200,000 total EVs (BEV and PHEV). Elimination of the Manufacturer 200,000 EVs Sold Phaseout Threshold.

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How EV adoption is soaring in unlikely circumstances, and what could make it better

Teslarati

The adoption of electric vehicles has continued to skyrocket over the past several years despite challenging supply chain conditions, less-than-ideal geopolitical scenarios, lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the soaring cost of EV materials. Price Parity and the EV Tax Credit. Superior EV tech is keeping the U.S.

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GAO study concludes Renewable Fuel Standard will miss advanced biofuel program targets; EPA generally concurs

Green Car Congress

part because they are compatible with existing infrastructure. Current production of cellulosic biofuels is far below the statutory volumes and, according to experts, there is limited potential for expanded production to meet future higher targets, in part because production costs are currently too high.

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5 Best Electric Car Insurance Tips for Millennials

Clean Fleet Report

The high cost of electric car insurance can be attributed that the fact that an electric car is often more expensive than its gas-powered counterpart. Their replacement parts are also more expensive. Through the Federal Tax Credit, you can be eligible for up to $7,500.

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Westwater Resources is building a facility in Alabama to process one of the largest graphite deposits in the US

Charged EVs

Now, if you look at just the materials half of the $7,500 tax credit, there’s $3,750 available, and graphite is on a short list of critical materials, along with lithium, cobalt, nickel and a few others. If you do the math and make some assumptions, it means $550-600 of the total tax credit is attributable just to graphite.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

Cars That Think

can meet its emissions goals The Rapid Energy Policy Evaluation and Analysis Toolkit —REPEAT—which you developed at Princeton with Evolved Energy Research , influenced Congress to create massive incentives for clean-energy tech. clean-tech legislation. How did REPEAT come together?

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

Charged EVs

Contrasting the two, Volvo is “warm and welcoming,” with “natural and humanistic” materials and style, but Polestar is “pure and minimalistic” with design that indicates it’s “high-tech and exclusive.” The overall impression we took away was of riding in a very expensive, very high-tech automotive running shoe. And so forth.