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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expiredDC13 posted Jun 3, 2023 9:12 PM
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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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Some dealers will even match that price if they have in inventory. YMMV.
Is it a code violation or isn't it?
But yeah it is a cheap horrible practice period. The cost difference between a 50a and 40a breaker is practically nothing. The cost between 6/3 and 8/3 wire is what like $1/foot? I've actually done an install with 6/3 UF cable that was actually cheaper that 8/3 Romex. UF is harder to work with, but permitted for indoor use, as it's a better quality cable.
Unless you absolutely don't have the extra panel capacity to support the 10a max load difference, you should be doing a 50a circuit.
Yes if a 32a charger is basically going to be permanently installed, it's fine.
But for probably less that $100 more material wise for most installs, or a measly few bucks if you install next to/behind the panel), you can future proof the outlet to support 25% faster charging with another EVSE, and the outlet can support ALL 14-50 applications.
But hey this is Slickdeals, if you want the bare minimum for cheapest cost, so be it. Certain things I'm not gonna cheap out on though: toilet paper and my electrical system.
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