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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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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Bolt was a decent little car for what it is (I have one, no buyer's remorse).
Unlike with ICE vehicles, with BEVs we are going to say battery platform overhauls every once on a while, which will lead to the discontinuation of old models and development of new models. They might have elected to use the same name, but it will still be a completely new car.
Telsa will eventually release a new platform which will replace their existing models too. Inevitable.
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.
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Storage is dreadful without rear seat down.
Bolt has awful handling in bad weather (rain...no snow in LA)...my guess is it's due to very hard rubber on tires (fuel efficiency?), and too much torque going to front tires.
And the storage space is pretty good, but only if your seats are down, like you mentioned.
I can either fit a bunch of stuff in mine, or a bunch of people. Not both. (but I am fine with that limitation, personally).
It makes adapting it to most fryer plugs impossible because they are usually 30a. But you could hook this up to a 100a breaker and it would still pull 32a.
Is it a code violation or isn't 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.)
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So if you only wanted to hold this for 5-ish years, no problem. 10 years and you could start struggling. 15 years could be quite tough.
But then again, there are fewer parts that should need service, so maybe it won't be quite as bad. Still a bit of a dice roll.
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