Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[txdon]

Federal EV tax credits advanced Wednesday, getting close to a vote in the Senate.
$7,500 tax credit and additional $2,500 if built in the U.S. and additional $2,500 if built with unionized labor.
Total $12,500 but only applies to EV vehicles less than $80,000.

That would bring down the price of the basic Ford Lightning to $27,474.00
That got my attention.

 

[txdon]

Anyone that has taken government assistance in any form has taken government assistance. Plain and simple.

Does that include covid stimulus money and EV tax credits?

 

[5030]

T#&s Up like a dairy cow?

No, **** up like a dead woodchuck on the side of the road getting bloated and stinking...

 

[5030]

40% of the U.S. corn crop is converted to ethanol. Think about that for a while. Especially in the context of this discussion.

More to farming than E-corn. Way more.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

and additional $2,500 if built with unionized labor.
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This pizzes me off

 

[Gale Hawkins]

This pizzes me off

It good know you and Elon see see eye to eye on something.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

It good know you and Elon see see eye to eye on something.

Yep, this is just wrong.

 

[5030]

Yep, this is just wrong.

Nothing more than legacy costs.

 

[5030]

While Mossy touched in ethanol which I dislike anyway, while I don't grow corn for alcohol production. Most people don't know that if you contract to grow corn for ethanol, you must grow a specific variety, usually mandate by the distiller. Not just any corn but a specific variety, genetically altered to produce more sugars.

To me the whole ethanol thing is nothing but big government dictating what you have to use in your vehicle and as a reference, it takes more energy to produce corn liquor than the liquor produces. Its a net looser and always has been and if the Gummit don't subsidize them (distillers) they would fold.

Probably come up with some sort of surcharge on plug in cars too. You have to pay your pound of flesh no matter what.

 

[5030]

It good know you and Elon see see eye to eye on something.

Don't worry. If Musk is around long enough, he will also be shackled with legacy costs. I'm sure he will weasel a way for the government to pay them.