The Biden Administration is considering a boost to electric vehicle adoption through new point-of-sale consumer EV rebates.
In a recent report from Bloomberg, White House Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy addressed President Biden’s electric vehicle plan, saying that Biden is “looking to invest more than $170 billion and he’s going to build out the electric charging stations that we need for consumers to buy these vehicles and feel confident that they can get where they want to go and back again.”
The Biden administration has proposed a multitrillion-dollar infrastructure plan that includes EV rebates, as well as 500,000 new electric vehicle charging stations.
While an existing tax credit of $7,500 is currently in place for some electric vehicle buyers, General Motors has already exceeded the 200,000-unit limit required for customers to receive the credit. However, while the existing tax credit is criticized as benefitting primarily wealthy buyers, the new point-of-sale EV rebate is believed to provide greater incentive for low- and middle-income buyers as well.
The Biden administration is framing the new EV rebate and infrastructure investment as necessary components to competing with China.
“The president is concerned that China is far ahead of us in the electric vehicle market,” McCarthy told Bloomberg. “Instead of producing the technologies of the future, we are importing them from somewhere else.”
President Biden previously announced plans to replace the existing federal fleet with new electric vehicles. It is estimated that the federal fleet currently encompasses some 645,000 vehicles, including trucks, SUVs, and cars. Of those 645,000 vehicles, just 3,215 are EVs. Replacing the entire federal fleet is estimated to cost upwards of $20 billion.
Many prominent voices in the auto industry, including General Motors and the United Auto Workers union, have called on President Biden to roll out new tax credits and EV rebates to help promote greater electric vehicle adoption. Some U.S. states have even pushed for an outright ban on the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger vehicles.
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Here we go again trying to artificially prop up electric vehicles with more handouts. If they are so wonderful people will buy them. If they are higher priced, inconvenient, weirdly styled and are mainly trying to slam home a political statement then adoption is going to be very slow.
Keep your rebates. I won't drive one until I absolutely have no other alternative which should take me through the end of my driving time anyway. They better get plenty of more Grids going, longer lasting and cheaper batteries and hope there are not too many blackouts if they want this to work. Right now these things make up a whopping 2% of vehicles. Hopefully gas vehicles will be supported for another 50 years or so.
Why should one individual buy a car for someone else? He's talking about paying the difference with your soon to be increased taxes.
Dan,
Better yet, why should a person who could never possibly afford a $100,000.+ Hummer EV be forced to subsidize the purchase of this 9,000 pound behemoth for those that can? It’s an insane idea and lest anyone think I’m being political, I found the tax credit for big SUVs from 15 years ago equally repulsive and I believe that was a Bush-era policy.
If Joe Biden wants to pay for rebates or incentives himself or if Mary Barra wants to fund them from her $24 million salary, I’m all for that. I am just not in favor of the guy who makes $56,000 a year and drives a Malibu being taxed to fund incentives on a Hummer EV that’ll be a more wealthy person’s fifth vehicle. We all know the Hummer is mostly going to be a vanity vehicle for those who buy it and not someone’s sole transportation option.
We will regret letting our government pick the winners in automobile technology with rebates funded by tax payers. I own a Tesla and still wonder why I got a federal and state rebate. I did not need either and would have bought the Tesla anyway. 🤔😬
When I was in college, I always got free drinks and other discounts at restaurants near the school if I presented my college ID. I can remember seeing folks who looked like hard-working laborers in the restaurant and they were getting no discount. Yet here was I, a bit privileged and lucky, with parents funding 100 percent of my education getting the discount. I never refused it but I’ve never forgotten it either. For every person who gets a break, somebody else is paying for it. I don’t think that’s right. Charge everyone the same price for the same item or service and if one person elects to buy a $100,000 Hummer EV they shouldn’t get government aid while the guy buying the $20,000 Spark gets none.
Thats what he wants run out of juice in pursuit of cartel members or illegals.
While Beijing Joe was out doing photo shoots with products from former Nazi supporter Henry Ford's firm several thousand illegal aliens were transported to various cities and towns across the U.S. He needs to get his skinny ass down to the border and fix the problem. Please, President Trump, we need your help and we need it now.
He doesn't care anyways
They have to give you a rebate because not to many want them.
Edit : FAKE PRESIDENT BITE ME : there fixed it for you
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