I was told by an employee at a tesla store that the $7500 is not for individuals but for business only. Correct?
I'm pretty excited about getting rid of the EV tax credit, they give EVs a bad name to people who believe in free markets. It's too bad the subsidies to oil and gas will likely remain, but I'm hopeful they will get rid of some of the worst offenders in an attempt to make Government more responsible.
Agreed. IMO it will stop distorting EV MSRP's. All it does is give the manufacturer an incentive to increase the price. It will also encourage more efficiency at companies with bloated unions and administrative costs.
Just means the chatbot "training" data included material by the sort of radical environmentalists that want most of humanity (except for themselves, of course) to die off. Or radical eugenicists, given the exchange being about the challenges facing older people.
I don't think that's correct that Tesla won't need to import cathode material. From what I understand, Tesla cathodes are made from nickel, cobalt, and aluminum and none of these is mined in the U.S.
Agreed. Maybe the DOGE Boys can be Trump whisperers, and push limiting the oil subsidies as a trade-off for the inevitable deregulation coming to that industry. It would certainly cut back on unnecessary government spending!
The nickel, collet & aluminum only need come from countries with trade agreements with the US like Canada who has plenty of all of these
Without getting into specifics, just know that there are not nearly enough battery minerals from qualifying countries to meet all the EVs made in America. It's not how large the reserves are, it's how much is currently available in the open markets.
That would be nice, but chances are slim because it wouldn't help Trumps goal of making gas cheap again.
I guess that's possible, but switching suppliers won't be fast or cheap.
