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Either let it expire or make the credit applicable up to a specific price (actual transaction price not MSRP). Income limits would work as well, but transaction price limits could drive the manufacturers to build more inexpensive cars. Or maybe a combination of income and transaction price. A...

Is the incentive for the buyer or the manufacturer? Buyer who wants to make the purchase needs to have the product available. Without the incentive maybe the manufacturer won't make the product. Or is it a situation where without the EV incentive the buyer wouldn't make the purchase even in an...

What do you do about valet or other drivers? Can they be given a one time (limited time) pin?

The mpge estimate is NOT how fast the car uses the energy stored, but how much energy you need to put back in from the wall. There are charging losses, so it may take 150kwh from your utility to replenish a 133 kWh battery. The screwy thing about that is that the charging efficiency changes...

That is what I imagine most experienced EV drivers do. In our Volvo xc40 EV there is no GOM. It just shows state of charge. Luckily it is pretty safe to estimate at least 2 miles per percent of battery.

Our Chevy bolt with a 239 mile range would give us anywhere from 140 to 305 mile GOM range prediction. I could make the 305 drop to 285 with the press of one button (climate control on). That 140 would be 0F heat on cold soaked battery... 288 could happen in an SR with speeds less than 50, temps...

FU ?

The playbook was supposed to be secret (not for public consumption, Ford internal document only).

A generator plug with bonded neutral and GFCI. Check the power boost forum. If set up the same you will need a transfer switch that breaks the neutral. With the power boost neutral is bonded in the truck and the neutral ground bond in the house main panel is seen as a ground fault by the truck...

Why don't you take your Volvo talk over to swedespeed! Lol (I am a 2016 xc90t8 and 2022 xc40 P8 owner). Yes, your v90 is a beautiful car.

Thanks. I will have to talk with the electrician when the time comes for the installation.

It needs some 4 inch diameter exhaust stacks coming through the bed. Then some fake black smoke occasionally.

I will probably be getting an aftermarket set 18s or 20s for winter tires. As long as their load capacity is 2450 (1/2 gawr rear which is 4900lbs).

I was thinking about that as I was typing. Improving the manufacturers profit margin (not dealer profits) would encourage investment and allocation of their scarce resources towards EV vs ice. Once the supply issues are improved the choices for manufacturers will be easier to make. If Ford is...

Currently in a supply constrained state making them cheaper and adding incentives is not going to increase the numbers significantly. Incentives could help with making EVs instead of ice cars when the shared parts are in short supply assuming there are adequate supplies of EV specific parts are...

Look at the income percentages. Less than 50k 83 percent, 50k to 99k, 77 percent, 100k plus 66 percent. So there are 226 percent of ???? Hard to believe anything when they screw up something that big. If it isn't actually screwed up, then they are misrepresenting something (deliberately??) or...

I wonder if you are generating more power than you are consuming and your home battery is full could you have an EVSE on the critical circuit panel so that the other excess power goes to the truck battery that can later be put back into the house system.

As EV adoption increases there will be increasing needs for public charging. Not only because more EVs mean more people charging, but more importantly the early adopters usually have at home charging. I would not own an EV without being able to charge at home. There will be a larger proportion...

And there is never an electricity leak that requires digging up of tanks.... Every gas station is a mini-superfund site waiting to happen. If local electricity costs 20c per kWh and it is being sold at 35c per kWh then there is certainly profit available.

My wife said that she could like the mach e if she had to so we drove down the road to check out the xc40. She sat in it, got the mirrors adjusted and smiled. It only got better after pulling out of the parking spot. Now I get in trouble if I take the xc40 and she needs to go somewhere. It is...