Beginning in 2024, everyone under the income limit qualifies for the full $7,500 rebate. It does not matter if you owe less than that in taxes, and you can get it at the time of purchase instead of waiting for next year's taxes.
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Jun 3, 2023 9:12 PM
2023 Chevrolet Bolt EV 1LT + $7500 Tax Credit + In-Home Charger Install
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edit: For clarification from the wiki: "The tax credit is not refundable, which means one must have federal tax due to take advantage of it. If the tax due is less than the credit amount, one can only claim the credit up to the amount of the tax due."
So lower income people will not get a $7500 refund, it depends on your liability. i.e. A SDer responded about a student being angry in a previous thread that they only got $500 back and not $7500.
Virtually all of the ICE vehicle can be recycled. Generally the only items not recyclable per se will be interior trim - it's mixed plastic and rubber. Engine? steel or aluminum. Gearcases? Steel or aluminum. Body, frame, etc, steel or aluminum. In fact, about 86% of a car can be recycled [recyclenation.com].
Meanwhile your EV will still have a fully and readily recyclable frame and body, just like the ICE. The motor will generally be recyclable. The battery? Not really. Generally batteries and battery packs are not really designed for recycling. Most are just thousands of individual cylindrical cells, that themselves are spiral wound multilayer structures. There's no easy way to separate the materials here. An ICE, you literally rip out the engine with heavy equipment and include it in with any other steel or aluminum - the process is astonishingly easy and quick [youtube.com] with heavy equipment.
Meanwhile, the batteries are generally just shredded [ucsusa.org]. The resulting material is called "black mass" and is placed into a bath of caustic chemicals to leech out the *important* elements. In certain cases, that black mass is first incinerated to burn off plastic and epoxies. Yeah that sounds super efficient and environmental to me.
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I though this was a typo on the OP's part, but the website does indeed state a 40 amp breaker on a NEMA 14-50 outlet. Umm talk about a code violation.
(Keep in mind that this is a universal outlet install, NOT a direct wiring install. So the breaker NEEDS to be sized to the maximum load limit, not just the load limit of the primary device that's going to be installed on it.)
1) everyone go back and edit their posts from "dealer" and "dealership(s)" to "STEALERSHIP(S)"
2) now and henceforth refer to them as "stealership(s)"
the stealership model is obviously corrupt and broken. let's call it for what it is.
Also, can someone with multiple EVs in the same neighborhood/block report back in 6 months on the number of times their transformers have blown?
small sample size: neighbor works for power company. owns EV (tesla S then Bolt now Mustang-E) has had transformer blown twice in 4 years and says the existing infrastructure cant handle it.
I though this was a typo on the OP's part, but the website does indeed state a 40 amp breaker on a NEMA 14-50 outlet. Umm talk about a code violation.
(Keep in mind that this is a universal outlet install, NOT a direct wiring install. So the breaker NEEDS to be sized to the maximum load limit, not just the load limit of the primary device that's going to be installed on it.)
That makes that 2019 Bolt model more likely to catch fire than a 2019 gas vehicle when parked at home.
If you were lucky enough to be in a state with strong lemon laws, it looks like hundreds of owners were able to get either money in their pocket, or swapped into a new Bolt. Everyone else? They mostly rejected.
GM is giving buybacks and MSRP swaps to hundreds of owners due to the risk of fire, but have not offered a replacement vehicle to those with an actual fire.
Bolt owners are the early adopters, supporting GM on their road to an all-electric future. Yet they have vehicles that they are afraid will catch fire. No information has been provided other than a vague indication that software can fix the problem. No compensation offered, or credit for what has happened.
GM has admitted there's a manufacturing defect. Their software doesn't look like it can reliably prevent a fire. At this point, it is clear that it's just a matter of when, not if, another fire will occur. Luckily this one had no injuries, but what if the next one has kids sleeping next to the garage?
Now GM is making a new Bolt they say will solve all the issues and fires of this old one? I hope the buyers on this forum let us know how it turns out.
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I'm assuming both the RWD Bolt and the RWD M3 are not great in snow, but is one of them less not great than the other?
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You can still find MSRP models out there, but the base model 1LT is probably the rarest. I have a 2LT because the others were impossible to find.
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