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Originally Posted by 90503
Just add the tax credit to the laundry list of factors that keep the prices rising.
We hear a lot of all the benefits of EVs saving the consumer money on maintenance items...no exhaust system, no cooling system, fewer overall parts and increased ease of assembly, etc. etc..Sounds great for the manufactures saving all the related expenses.
Doesn't seem to have been passed down to the consumer at all, though. Probably never will be. EV's will have a monopoly soon enough. With government intervention and regulations any reasons to save the consumer any money are getting fewer and fewer.
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the credit wont exist when ev's are close to all you can buy. so the credit wont impact msrp then, so lets get that out of the way. And in that hypothetical future, car manufacturers still want to make money and exist, so they'll have to sell cars at a price people can buy.
As for the current cost of ev vehicles, they have been going down with the decrease in cost of battery packs. However, the battery packs have been growing to increase range. Because in the US, we dont buy vehicles based on a rational judgement of what is practical. It's always more and extreme.
Right now in the US, there are 7 models of EV available below 40k msrp.
That's an increase in availability in this price range, not a decrease compared to previous years. If the tax credit was putting upward pressure on the MSRP, this would not be what we see, as the tax credit has been around for many years.
So what we actually see in reality is the opposite of what you are suggesting is an effect of the tax credit. And we have no reason to forecast that this trend will not continue for at least the near future as ICE is phased out.