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[dreamweaver]

America's Federal EV Charger Funding Isn't Dead After All​

America's Federal EV Charger Funding Isn't Dead After All

The Trump administration is now allowing the NEVI program—$5 billion in EV charger funding—to keep flowing to states.

insideevs.com

 

[THil08]

America's Federal EV Charger Funding Isn't Dead After All​

America's Federal EV Charger Funding Isn't Dead After All

The Trump administration is now allowing the NEVI program—$5 billion in EV charger funding—to keep flowing to states.

insideevs.com

Good! This is good.

Maybe the Tax Credit will get revised.

 

[dreamweaver]

Good! This is good.

Maybe the Tax Credit will get revised.

Stranger things have happened. Let's keep our fingers crossed on that one.

 

[chucchinchilla]

Stranger things have happened. Let's keep our fingers crossed on that one.

I had to look this up because this is a very nuanced situation. This isn't a case of the Trump administration now allowing funds to flow because they never had the choice to begin with. Killing this program would have to be in the hands of Congress. If the Trump administration really wanted to kill this, they would have wrapped it into the Big Beautiful Bill which was voted on by Congress. This is how they were able to kill the $7,500 tax credit. Either NEVI was quietly left out of BBB or they forgot to include it.

For those reasons, I doubt the $7,500 will be able to come back in the same way...would have to just be a completely new tax credit...which is plausible because then the administration can take credit for it's success. But given they're more focused on helping the O&G industry, I doubt it'll happen.

 

[J Alynn]

America's Federal EV Charger Funding Isn't Dead After All​

America's Federal EV Charger Funding Isn't Dead After All

The Trump administration is now allowing the NEVI program—$5 billion in EV charger funding—to keep flowing to states.

insideevs.com

A win for common sense!

 

[dreamweaver]

I had to look this up because this is a very nuanced situation. This isn't a case of the Trump administration now allowing funds to flow because they never had the choice to begin with. Killing this program would have to be in the hands of Congress. If the Trump administration really wanted to kill this, they would have wrapped it into the Big Beautiful Bill which was voted on by Congress. This is how they were able to kill the $7,500 tax credit. Either NEVI was quietly left out of BBB or they forgot to include it.

For those reasons, I doubt the $7,500 will be able to come back in the same way...would have to just be a completely new tax credit...which is plausible because then the administration can take credit for it's success. But given they're more focused on helping the O&G industry, I doubt it'll happen.

Raise a glass to hope.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

In fantastic news for my neck of the woods, Circle K has installed 4 CCS1 charging plugs in Page, AZ, helping with mitigation of a long-felt gap in fast charging in the northern Arizona / southern Utah area.

Circle K Page | Page, AZ | EV Station

4 CCS stalls at 180kW according to Circle K website (https://www.circlek.com/charge)

www.plugshare.com

 

[chucchinchilla]

In fantastic news for my neck of the woods, Circle K has installed 4 CCS1 charging plugs in Page, AZ, helping with mitigation of a long-felt gap in fast charging in the northern Arizona / southern Utah area.

Circle K Page | Page, AZ | EV Station

4 CCS stalls at 180kW according to Circle K website (https://www.circlek.com/charge)

www.plugshare.com

That's where you are? Dude with all the national monuments/rec areas/parks surrounding there Scout could get all the awesome brochure pics they need.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

That's where you are? Dude with all the national monuments/rec areas/parks surrounding there Scout could get all the awesome brochure pics they need.

I’ve offered to be a tester for them.
No response from @Jamie@ScoutMotors.

 

[cyure]

I’ve offered to be a tester for them.
No response from @Jamie@ScoutMotors.

Well boo!

 

[cyure]

I’m all for custom paint etc but I wouldn’t pay and extra $59,000 to do it.

Cadillac Will Custom Build Your CT5-V Blackwing By Hand, For A Price - The Autopian

The Curated by Cadillac program for the CT5-V Blackwing offers huge customization for an equally enormous price tag.

www.theautopian.com

 

[cyure]

Well…

There's a Broken Tesla Cybertruck Stuck on the Rubicon Trail Right Now [Update: It's Finally Out]

Drivers who saw it on the treacherous 22-mile trail told us it snapped multiple tie rods and needed a steering rack replacement.

trib.al

 

[dreamweaver]

Well…

There's a Broken Tesla Cybertruck Stuck on the Rubicon Trail Right Now [Update: It's Finally Out]

Drivers who saw it on the treacherous 22-mile trail told us it snapped multiple tie rods and needed a steering rack replacement.

trib.al

Another one ready for target practice.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

Waaaaaaay lower maintenance costs.

So much lower. I just completed our 50k and 20k maintenance: rotate tires, check fluids.
I paid about $180 replacing the 3.5-year-old low-voltage battery on the Mustang.

In total, I’ve paid about $300 for maintenance in 41 months of pure EV ownership.

 

[cyure]

So much lower. I just completed our 50k and 20k maintenance: rotate tires, check fluids.
I paid about $180 replacing the 3.5-year-old low-voltage battery on the Mustang.

In total, I’ve paid about $300 for maintenance in 41 months of pure EV ownership.

That’s it?!?!

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

That’s it?!?!

I did have to buy a new tire, but I don’t consider that part of regular maintenance.
But, yes, that’s about it. This includes some windshield washer and some coolant (the Lightning was low on coolant from the factory and I could have had it refilled at the dealer for free, but I don’t like dealers, so I spent $50 to do that myself).

To be fair: I do my own tire rotations or I bring the vehicle to a place that does them for free.
I also do my own routine maintenance, so checking the various parts that need to be checked, filling fluid reservoirs, etc., I do.
I should also get a brake fluid tester to test the brake fluid hydration level. If that needs replacing, I will bring it in to the dealer—I don’t have the tools to do the brake fluid.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

I did have to buy a new tire, but I don’t consider that part of regular maintenance.
But, yes, that’s about it. This includes some windshield washer and some coolant (the Lightning was low on coolant from the factory and I could have had it refilled at the dealer for free, but I don’t like dealers, so I spent $50 to do that myself).

To be fair: I do my own tire rotations or I bring the vehicle to a place that does them for free.
I also do my own routine maintenance, so checking the various parts that need to be checked, filling fluid reservoirs, etc., I do.
I should also get a brake fluid tester to test the brake fluid hydration level. If that needs replacing, I will bring it in to the dealer—I don’t have the tools to do the brake fluid.

Oh, I guess I should maybe also include new tires for the Mustang at 40k miles.
That was a little less than $1000 for four new tires.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

Oh, I guess I should maybe also include new tires for the Mustang at 40k miles.
That was a little less than $1000 for four new tires.

I guess to be even more fair, it’s 41 months of EV ownership, but really it’s 41 months of Mustang Mach-E ownership and 14 months of Lightning ownership, so more like 55 months total of EVs that have required maintenance.

 

[cyure]

I did have to buy a new tire, but I don’t consider that part of regular maintenance.
But, yes, that’s about it. This includes some windshield washer and some coolant (the Lightning was low on coolant from the factory and I could have had it refilled at the dealer for free, but I don’t like dealers, so I spent $50 to do that myself).

To be fair: I do my own tire rotations or I bring the vehicle to a place that does them for free.
I also do my own routine maintenance, so checking the various parts that need to be checked, filling fluid reservoirs, etc., I do.
I should also get a brake fluid tester to test the brake fluid hydration level. If that needs replacing, I will bring it in to the dealer—I don’t have the tools to do the brake fluid.

I don’t count tires either. Unless they fail early for some reason. As long as I get my use out of them I’m fine.

The most ridiculous tire story I have is we had an early 90s Ford Escort GT and it needed tires and I called a shop and he asked me if I was sitting down. I said no why? He said that Ford put an odd size tire on the car and only Goodyear made it and it was going to be $1200 for tires on a Ford Escort GT back in the 90s! He said well we can put a different size on and the speedometer will just be off so that’s what we did.

So that brings me to a question. I see some posts early on with Rivian that tire shops wouldn’t put tires on them. What’s that all about? And is that still the case? Can you go to any old tire shop with an EV or does it have to be special somehow.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

I don’t count tires either. Unless they fail early for some reason. As long as I get my use out of them I’m fine.

The most ridiculous tire story I have is we had an early 90s Ford Escort GT and it needed tires and I called a shop and he asked me if I was sitting down. I said no why? He said that Ford put an odd size tire on the car and only Goodyear made it and it was going to be $1200 for tires on a Ford Escort GT back in the 90s! He said well we can put a different size on and the speedometer will just be off so that’s what we did.

So that brings me to a question. I see some posts early on with Rivian that tire shops wouldn’t put tires on them. What’s that all about? And is that still the case? Can you go to any old tire shop with an EV or does it have to be special somehow.

Early on, many tire shops were afraid of damaging the EV because they couldn’t be bothered to download the manual from the manufacturer. There are generally important considerations of where to jack up an EV because of the location of the battery. A lot of early EVs had their batteries damaged by tire shops and tow truck drivers who didn’t take the 5 minutes to learn something new about a new vehicle.

I don’t know of any shops, chains or local, who won’t do tires on EVs now.
That said, I was in LA with a low tire that needed patching. I didn’t want to plug it because most tire shops won’t repair a plugged tire, but they will repair a previously patched tire. So I brought the truck in to have the tire patched. The techs lifted it incorrectly the first time and as I was heading out there to have them do it properly, they fixed their mistake. So it’s still happening that people don’t take the time to learn where the jack points are. There wasn’t any damage to the truck that I can find. This time. But that’s one reason I prefer to do my own rotations. But I’ve done my own for many decades, so it’s more about my general distrust than the EV.