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The federal tax credit is $7500. If the car company uses that $7500 to cut the lease in half that is up to the manufacturer. $7,500 would cut a $420 36 month lease about in half.

Same as housing. If housing worked why is there still a deduction?
The EV credit does end in the current law BTW.

Any deduction or credit is the current method for the government to promote certain ways of life. All credits and deductions have the same effect of certain groups getting help paying the bills while others get no offset. It is all the same pool that we swim through.

BTW Tesla does not offer a lease. You must take the credit directly.

You never took a mortgage tax deduction?

Now that is a real rationalization comparing the mortgage tax deduction to a governmental half off lease. If these things worked, they wouldn't need the huge subsidies. The free market would be all over it like is happening with LNG and CNG.

You never took a mortgage tax deduction?
I still deduct my property tax so everyone is helping me pay that too.

BTW my 3kW solar install is up and running nicely. And yes, you get to help pay for it. And I will continue to help pay your mortgage for 30 years assuming you have one.

No debt here, but I don't think others would be paying for it if I did. Certainly don't think anybody did during those years we had mortgages. Jimmy Carter days they were at over 14%. I do know I am paying for wind and solar though both as a taxpayer and ratepayer. Fortunately, most of the solar projects went bankrupt before wasting too much money.

I am all for natural gas vehicles as a choice.
If that works best for you, go for it ;)

NG is not without compromises and additional upfront costs like an EV or solar power.

BTW my 3kW solar install is up and running nicely. And yes, you get to help pay for it. And I will continue to help pay your mortgage for 30 years assuming you have one.

California progressive, does that mean bankrupt also? Are you actually thinking about buying a Telsa with your own money or looking to get a half price lease paid for by your friends and neighbors like your Volt? Look, when these EV's make sense, I and many others will be buying them, but not based on what they are "going" to do, but on what they are "actually" doing. I'll also have wind and solar when they are "actually" making sense economically. It gets down to what is more efficient, using natural gas to generate electricity to charge a 1000 pound battery to haul around or just using the natural gas directly to drive the vehicle.

LindsayRichards wrote:
Nothing in your link indicates how many a week are being sold. Further checking says that they are now producing 400 a week which would be about 1600 a month which gets from the pimple to hickey category. I hope they work, but they are still mainly about the stock. While getting that figure, I was amazed that about 95% of the search engine stories were about the stock price rather than the vehicle.

They may be building that many a week but you can't hardly order one because of the back orders! This info is from California where the people are progressive and many have the bucks to buy one. It may be a year or 2 but at this rate the wave will cross the USA.
If this current Syria thing escalates in the Arab countries electric will have it all over gas in a minute.

cekkk wrote:
There is no CURRENT refueling station within its 250-mile range of my abode. :B

One of the best parts of EV driving is NEVER going to a refueling station.
And if you must:

https://na.chargepoint.com/index.php/charge_point

Close to 100 Chargepoint in CO. Soon there will be free Supercharger locations.

http://www.teslamotors.com/charging#/basics

From Tesla:

"Anywhere. Seriously. Where there's an outlet, you can charge. The type of outlet or charging station will determine how fast you can charge.

The most convenient time to charge is often at night, when your car is parked in your garage. Simply plug in when you arrive home. Model S will charge right away or at the time you’ve scheduled using the Touchscreen or a smart phone. Long before morning, your car will be charged and ready for the next adventure."

LR, I took a different approach, searching for Tesla test drive. Apparently, it's a poster child for government regulations. Five stars everywhere. But those articles never got the car back home. They were all crash tests.

So I searched some more and got a promising find. Something about a 400+ miles drive through Oregon. Strangely, that story made no mention of the drive, if one even occurred, but devolved into a discussion of - here we go again - PROMISED FUTURE refueling stations and FUTURE more affordable models.

Now, money, meaning nothing to me as I spent my career in WDC, is not a problem. I'm happy to pop over a hundred K into one of these babies. But I'll have to wait. There is no CURRENT refueling station within its 250-mile range of my abode. :B

Comments regressed further, concentrating on, you got it, stock price. It's a great looking car and I'm sure if I devoted more of this beautiful day to a search engine I could find some driving data. I'd like to see some.

Nothing in your link indicates how many a week are being sold. Further checking says that they are now producing 400 a week which would be about 1600 a month which gets from the pimple to hickey category. I hope they work, but they are still mainly about the stock. While getting that figure, I was amazed that about 95% of the search engine stories were about the stock price rather than the vehicle.