Trump team puts EV tax credit on the block, Tesla is on board: Report

Elon Musk is on record as saying it would hurt competitors more than Tesla.

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This unfortunately plays into what I saw a lot of leading up to the election. Several people I know said "I'm tired of all these government handouts to everyone else. I don't want my tax dollars to help pay for my neighbor's electric car. His tax dollars didn't help pay for my (diesel) truck!"

This is exactly what they wanted: a reduction in taxes because they've got theirs and they don't want to give it away.

The irony is that the tax payer is definitely subsidizing the excessive amount of fuel he's using.

 

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Space Ars commenters will be over the Moon when SpaceX becomes soon the exclusive launch and communications provider for the federal government.

I'm actually conflicted on this one, mostly because the SLS is the biggest hunk of shit program I can remember. Congress set NASA back decades with this piece of shit. They all just openly used it as a way to put jobs in their districts. Trying to make something good and efficient was the last thing on the planet any of them were concerned with.