Under the new Biden EV credit proposal, will the Cybertruck qualify for Federal Tax Credit?

[cvalue13]

You are kind of all over the place here.

Feels ditto!

maybe it’s only from your vantage, or at least not mine, that you see no irony in saying “Tesla fans would never put up with something like a 20% price increase, because we only tolerate years-off promises of product delivery!”

Feels like maybe such an ingrained view that it’s hard for me to understand how you don’t.

Aside from the Roadster, they’ve never been 5-6 years late though.

that wasn’t quite the point, was it? I said a 4-6 year wait, not 4-6 years past a promised deadline (the only way I can interpret your reference to “late”). I thought you might broadly agree that it’s not out of question for significant number of persons who put down a deposit for certain trims of the CT on announcement may not see their specific trim vehicle, if ever, until …. Mid-2024? Isn’t that a 5 years wait? The mid-point of 4-6?

What exactly was your “gotcha” here?

Maybe you just disagree that some announcement day deposits may not see a truck until 2024?

The rest of your comment is largely out in left field.

Indicative of my prerogative here. There’s only a single bullet you could be referencing here, as you’ve addressed the others squarely.

To the idea of failing to deliver on pricing within tolerances, you said:

What are the repercussions of screwing 1 million of your biggest fans?

To the point that different people are let down by different things, I said (in addition to long waits or holding big deposits):

“for some “biggest fans”, things qualifying as more irritating than a 15% price hike … *might* include:…. [Tesla’s increasingly documented and growing record of poor business practices involving racism and sexism]”

To which you appear to be responding “I’m not sure how that’s relevant”?

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[Crissa]

You guys would do better if you stuck to single points to discuss at a time ^-^

-Crissa

 

[Ogre]

Feels ditto!

maybe it’s only from your vantage, or at least not mine, that you see no irony in saying “Tesla fans would never put up with something like a 20% price increase, because we only tolerate years-off promises of product delivery!”

Again, look what happened with Rivian.

They were a year late and people tolerated it. They bumped prices 15% and they had an absolutely massive cancellation event.

Ship dates for unreleased products are by nature unreliable and often beyond the control of the manufacturer. Prices are mostly within the control of the manufacturer.

If Tesla says “We are increasing prices inline with inflation” and they do, they are reacting to things beyond their control. If they say that and increase prices way beyond actual inflation, then It’s no longer about something beyond their control.

 

[Cybertruckee]

Cybertruck Rebate Flowchart:
Is your income below the threshold?
Is your chosen CT model's MSRP under $80,000
Is your CT's battery's materials sourced from approved locations?

If you answer yes to all those, you're all set!

In that case, I'll have mine with Energizer.

 

[Cybertruckee]

Seriously this time. Again, we are bound to speculate (as 99.9% of the posts here, lol).

The exact regulatory framework will still have to be fleshed out by the government agencies.

But unlike the accusations of the other party of government overreach scare-mongering stance, it will be a reasonable percentage local content based on what's immediately locally available that will escalate over a date certain timeline as components and materials become available.

The goal overall as already communicated forcefully by the current administration is to maintain jobs within our boundaries and maintain our global competitiveness in high technology and renewable energy leadership.

 

[Ogre]

Didn’t take long.

https://driving.ca/auto-news/indust...tric-vehicle-battery-minerals-lithium-trudeau

EV makers are already scrambling to get supply of critical minerals on the continent.

 

[Blue Steel]

Sure, only meant to point out that the $7,500 max credit is now comprised of two separate $3,250 qualifying credits, one for source of battery minerals (what I took the prior comment to be about) and the other for battery components

That is why I was vague about battery materials. Materials meaning both minerals and components!

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