Featured EV tax credit end good for Tesla?

we all have different priorities

 

correct me if i'm wrong, but the us government was incentivizing manufacturers before those vehicles were even a thought

 

One of my son-in-law's first jobs after he stopped being self-employed was working for FedEx that allowed him to bring home the truck so he wouldn't have to have his own car.

 

If by incentives you mean carpool lane stickers, that's true. As for tax credits for ev's though it's a different story.
As for other incentives, yeah probably there were even incentives for building gas burners. IDK

 

i thought there were tax breaks or even money offered. clinton era?

 

pre - y2k? IDK

 

There are incentives for building batteries, like lithium ion batteries used in cars. I'm not sure if that started before the first Teslas or Chevy Volt, but there are there and will probably continue there even if the EV mandate and incentives are repealed.

There may be others.

 

my mistake, it started in the 60's

a-brief-history-of-hybrid-cars

 

a-brief-history-of-hybrid-cars

 

just a wild guess, but i would bet tax payers have been subsidizing automobile manufacturers in one form or another for a long time

 

The first $7500 tax credit for plug ins was signed in 2008. Public Law 110-343 - Wikipedia
The Leaf and Volt were eligible for it. Same with the Tesla's when they came out. I'm unaware of any reason why the Roadster wouldn't have qualified. Toyota got the original 5kWh minimum reduced so the PiP would get something.

 

that's not the incentivizing i meant

 

My question is if Musk is truly about getting as many car owners into Teslas and EVs as possible, or if that's not really a short term goal anymore?

Here we have him against the EV tax incentive. He also announced in a press conference that Tesla is no longer working on the Model 2. So the only kind of cheap car he has planned is the two seater robo taxi, which will be $30,000 (plus whatever self-driving costs. Sorry, I just had to add that in there.)

So meanwhile, is everyone in the USA that can't afford a +$40k car supposed to either buy a gas car or move to China?

 

he probably is, but hasn't been able to drive costs down far enough, as far as i can see. maybe when the current model sales slow down enough he will be forced to do something, but what can he do?

 

Tell investors that he wants to make androids?

 

That level of wealth in one person allows him to tinker with doing opposite of what everyone thinks he should do or they would do. It doesn’t matter the outcome at this point, money is not an issue. I don’t think wealth has ever been seen in one person like this before. A few others are in the same group. They have the most shells or beads, now what.