President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is planning to kill the $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases as part of broader tax-reform legislation, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. [...]
... representatives of Tesla - by far the nation's biggest EV maker - have told a Trump-transition committee they support ending the subsidy. [...] Tesla CEO Elon Musk, one of Trump's biggest backers and the world's richest person, said in July that killing the subsidy might slightly hurt Tesla sales but would be "devastating" to its U.S. EV competitors, which include legacy automakers such as General Motors. Full story: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trumps-transition-team- aims-kill-biden-ev-tax-credit-2024-11-14/ or https://cntp.me/xavYyS5 David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard- working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. -- Lily Tomlin = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
