On 12/22/2016 05:37 PM, Cor van de Water via EV wrote:
Peri, Agreed, only it is not going to Tesla/Nissan but to their customers. The manufacturers are not reaping direct benefits other than that their prices are artificially lowered for those customers who qualify for (part of) the tax credit. The vehicle market is heavy regulated and incentivized anyway, that is why in some countries the majority of vehicles run on Diesel and in another country on Ethanol and yet another country has a large chunk of vehicles run on LPG/CNG while in USA consumer vehicles run almost exclusively on Petrol "gas" and slowly a shift towards electric drive... Of course there is a good reason for incentives as the emissions from road-going vehicles make a large chunk of the pollution of the air that we breathe daily, so it directly affects our collective health. Anyway, we are straying away from the topic, so let's just say that the review of the Smart is interesting, a couple concepts are not well understood/translated by the editor but in general it is a positive review of a useful city vehicle.
It is semi-important to realize that the $7.5k income tax credit incentive is much a lower subsidy for Tesla than for most other EVs. Around 10% for a Tesla. For an imiev, it might be near 50%. Right now, for a new 24kwh Leaf, it seems to be around 30%. So, for that incentive, it is not fair/honest to claim that Tesla is feeding off of government subsidies; other EV makers are getting MUCH more.
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