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3 Scenarios That Would Make An EV Ineligible For the Federal EV Tax Credit

EV Adoption

In my previous article, Proposed Changes to the Federal EV Tax Credit Passed by the House of Representatives , I outlined and analyzed 13 proposed changes to IRC 30D (federal EV tax credit). But all of these PHEVs have batteries of around 9 kWh and so they could easily be upgraded to 10 kWh to qualify for the tax credit.

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Flash Drive: 2024 Kia EV9

Clean Fleet Report

With a few pulls of the left side steering wheel paddle, the brake regeneration force reaches the maximum setting and you are in iPedal, where regenerative braking uses the motors to recharge the battery when slowing or coasting, converting kinetic energy into electric energy, which is stored in the battery. inches of ground clearance.

Kia 86
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GM taps LG for Volt Battery

Revenge of the Electric Car

Ron Freund, president of the Electric Auto Assoc., The coveted Chevy Volt battery contract appears to be going to a unit of South Korea’s biggest battery maker. MIT spinoff A123 was a personal favorite, also Germany’s Continental was in the running, but it was LG Chem subsidiary and Detroit based Compact Power, Inc.

Volt 100
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Proposed Changes to the Federal EV Tax Credit Passed by the House of Representatives

EV Adoption

For electric vehicles, the BBBA includes multiple proposed changes to IRC 30D, more commonly knows as the federal EV tax credit. Perhaps the mostly likely is the requirement for EVs to be assembled in the US in a union factory to qualify for an additional $4,500 tax credit. Tax Credit Becomes Refundable.