October 13, 2015 Hello EVeryone,
In June 2014, Britta Gross from General Motors <GM> gave the North Carolina Pluggable Electrical Vehicle a webex presentation that discussed the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) de Minimus rule as it related to free electricity in workplace charging at GM. In the 2012 IRS Document, you could exclude $ 125 per person per month for "combined commuter highway transportation and transit passes". A recent 2014 copy of the IRS Fringe benefits now is a $ 130 exemption and requires the highway commuter vehicle to seat at least 6 people (excluding driver), and I do not know whether the IRS has ever been approached by companies involved in the DOE Workplace Charging Challenge to get clarification on the topic. And as Ms. Gross pointed out, the IRS rules have never explicitly mentioned EV - but they do provide examples of the de Minimus requirements. At our company in Harrisburg, PA we currently have 6 Pluggable Electric Vehicles and - are for the moment - providing free electricity via eight Level 2, and four Level 1 EV chargers to employees. Once our EV Charge Controller components are released for sale in the USA, I will let you all know. We have developed a EV charge controller in both off-grid (solar-powered 2.7 kW), and on-grid configurations (with power control from the 6 A minimum (at 240 Vac) to 32 A, from a 25 kW transformer feeding 4 EV cordsets, and a 50 A RV connection for a Tesla S in our fleet with an automated industrial control system.) If anyone would like a copy of the GM presentation, please contact me off-line. - There has always been an EV in ChEVrolet! - Kindest regards, Arnold Offner Phoenix Contact E-Mail: <[email protected]> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20151013/6953e01f/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
