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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frontpageDC13 posted Jun 03, 2023 09:12 PM
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frontpageDC13 posted Jun 03, 2023 09:12 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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7 kW of that charger should be OK on the transformer while it is the only one in the neighborhood. Once there are a few...
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.
The stock tires suck for traction but good for range. Get some better all seasons tire, like the cross climates.
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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.
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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.)
They are only focusing on the 2LT until EOP.
Even then you need to pile on options if you hope to take delivery.
Speaking from my own experience, and I live within miles of the factory and went through a very EV focused dealership.
Awesome car though!
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Although it is a good car, keep in mind that it is a city car. Be prepared to get frustrated with slow charging speeds if you take it on a road trip. Also the 1LT version doesn't have adaptive cruise control and the seats are still pretty terrible (though a vast improvement from previous generation).
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