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Wait, the US tax credit for electric vehicles is over, right? What do I do by putting it in the title now?

Well, a month ago, we wrote about some news that broke before the US EV tax credit expired. Ford and GM have figured out a loophole to primarily use the tax credit after the third quarter. They were essentially selling their cars to themselves before the deadline, scoring the tax credit, and then they would be able to lease those cars at discounted rates.

At the time, I wrote the following regarding Tesla: “Now, what about Tesla? Tesla doesn’t have separate dealers. So, Tesla presumably couldn’t take advantage of this loophole. There’s no clear network of dealers who are independent partners of the electric car company and can enter into a binding written contract with the company. Unless I’m missing something, it looks like Tesla will lose out here and suffer competitively from the loophole.” This may in fact be the case and Tesla is simply trying to find a creative way to rally support in this difficult time. But here’s the email from Tesla that made me wonder about this again:

Leasing has its benefits

When you lease, you’ll be able to use all the features that make driving Tesla cars so fun – from Tesla Arcade to driving modes to full self-driving (supervised).¹ And at the end of the lease, you can buy your Tesla outright.²

Rental rates will increase by up to $80, request and apply by November 4, 2025 to qualify.³

Note there that rental prices will rise soon. Why? Are you running out of Teslas that you can somehow register before October 1st and get the tax credit? Or is it the high costs that impose this?

Whatever happens, Tesla is now offering and pushing something it hasn’t offered for a long time – lease takeovers. Maybe it’s that simple – the company is trying to stimulate sales, so it’s highlighting something that many may not know, which is that they can lease a Tesla and then buy that car at the end of the lease.

As a final point, intuitively, the value of that car will be higher now than the car was worth at the end of its lease a month ago, because there is no longer a $7,500 tax credit to reduce the cost of the new Tesla. This will help Tesla. Instead of being able to sell a car for $25,000 at the end of the lease, as a hypothetical example, maybe she could sell that car for $30,000 or $32,500 to the lessee. Increasing the value of a car after its lease expires is a clear benefit for Tesla, and there is no easier way to sell it without additional costs (transportation, cleaning and inspection, auction, etc.) than selling it to a lessee.

Any other thoughts on this? Will the percentage of Tesla sales that are leases increase in the fourth quarter? Historically, this is a very low percentage for Tesla compared to other automakers.

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Washington (AP) – as Republicans in Congress He rushed forward with a huge tax and lower the bill, A renewable energy executive in North Carolina has written to his 190 employees with a warning: deep discounts to clean energy tax credits were harmful.

“It is certain that (changes) will include job loss in our team. “I tell you that you deserve transparency and truth – even if this fact is uncomfortable.”

The draft law is now at home Take ax For clean energy incentivesIncluding the killing of tax credit by 30 % for solar residential energy on the surface by the end of the year in which the Biden administration is located Law of reducing inflation It extended to the next decade. Trump described the tax credits of clean energy in part of the Climate Law from a “new green fraud”, which is properly converting the taxpayer support to help the “global climate agenda” and energy sources such as wind and solar energy.

Companies and analysts say that the draft law supported by the Republican Party is likely to reflect the growth of the sector and remove jobs.

“The solar energy industry will be completely amazing of this,” said Bob Kevie, CEO of E2, a business group calling for environmentally supportive policies.

President Donald Trump’s Big Beutiful Bill aims to wide energy sources on a large scale, including the gradual disposal of the tax credits enjoyed by solar energy and winds on the scale. But cutting the solar credit will happen sooner.

Companies have announced more than $ 20 billion in clean energy investments in North Carolina in recent years. Etheridge, whose company installs solar panels and helps to ensure the efficiency of buildings in the field of energy, was among many of the sector in this sector to pressure the American Senator Thom Tillis from North Carolina Changes in the draft law.

Tellis was eventually one of the three Republic You will not seek to re -election After Trump said he is likely to support a basic competitor.

Now, etheridge says that tax credit loss is likely to mean demobilization 50 to 55 of his workers. He called for the elimination of residential tax credits “bait and switch”.

He said: “I made a decision that he is an employee to remove a loan from my grandmother to buy in my work and put my home on the line” due to the stability of tax credits. He said he will now defend ways to diversify his work.

“If you need money points from Washington to make your business viable, then it may not be at work in the first place,” said Adam Michel, Director of Tax Policy Studies at the Kato Institute, a liberation research tank.

Michel said that he doubts that many clean energy companies will get out of work, but “I think they will be right in size in the market and that the people who work with them will find better jobs and more stable functions in viable industries and do not require billions of dollars in federal support.”

Even before the discussion of the draft law, E2 experts said in May that $ 14 billion of clean energy investments throughout the country have been postponed or canceled this year.

The draft law, which was passed on Tuesday, removes a tax on some winds and solar energy that was proposed in a previous issuance and gives projects on the benefit of some time to start construction before getting rid of these tax credits.

Carl Stopka, a rally -based NC Solar president, who employs about 100 people, said that the Senate Bill reduced the impact on commercial projects “with the destruction of the residential part of tax credits.” Nearly 85 % of his work is residential work.

“They took it away from every ordinary ordinary American and gave it to the wealthiest business owners,” he said.

Stupka said if the draft law becomes a law, companies will rush to end the largest possible number of solar functions before the credit ends. He was expected to rest half his employees, with “hanging” job losses elsewhere.

“This will lead to a severe shock,” he said.

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If the Trump administration canceled the Federal Tax Credit EV, it may have a devastating effect on American manufacturing, warning a new study.

The study produced by The Recept Project, the Brenston University group that analyzes environmental policy, has found that killing tax credit of $ 7,500 would reduce the demand for EV, as well as exposing manufacturing functions associated with making those vehicles and batteries that they are working on.

“The report is also the only analysis that has realized it so far and that also draws American manufacturing contact,” Jesse de Jinkins, assistant professor at Princeton and leader of the study project, told Electrek in an e -mail statement.

2025 Cadillac Optics

Without tax credit, researchers estimate that EV sales in the United States may decrease by 30 % by 2027 and about 40 % by 2030. This may reduce the expected market share of EV from 18 % to 13 % in 2026 and from 40 % to 24 % in 2030, according to the study.

Such a slowdown can lead to 100 % of the planned expansions of the United States assembly stations that are canceled, and can make 29 % to 72 % of the manufacturing capacity of American batteries exacerbating the need, according to the study. Factories And based on the distribution of manufacturing projects related to the current EV, red cases can reach the most difficult.

2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5

Addressing credit analysts have seen it vital for the continued growth of EV sales to the United States. Among the trends that led the S&P Global Mobility, in 2023, would expect that the US sales may exceed twice by 2030. But the Trump administration is expected to target, just as it was targeting other Biden administration policies related to infrastructure technology.

The potential loss of tax credit and other Trump policies have led to a review of the fragmentation trade forecast in the EV market in the market this year, by 9.1 % of the retail market in the United States, but with the growth of this year after this year to 26 % of the market by 2030. Given the market growth of the expected market models in the market outside the brands of EV such as Tesla, and Rivian, Lucid, can still 3 % sales.

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