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Utility Incentive Program Updates

Electrify America Charger at Trumbull Mall

Restructured Residential Managed Charging Incentives For the first year of the program, there was one incentive program. This was a so-called demand-response (DR) program, where the EDCs would declare demand events during peak load periods … Read more

Rivian Guilty of “Pre-Crime”

Rivian R1S

Rivian Service Center Stalled By Dealership Lawsuit We’ve seen this movie before. In a replay of what we recently saw with Tesla, a lawsuit by an auto dealership has stalled the opening of a service … Read more

Where Should I Buy An EV – 2022 Edition

Westport Chevy Bolt

Post by Barry Kresch CHEAPR as a Proxy for EV-Friendly Dealers It is not unusual for a consumer to reach out to us, usually after a bad sales experience, and ask if we can recommend … Read more

Connecticut EV Registrations Increase to 30,181

EV Growth Trend in CT

Based on new data released by the Department of Motor Vehicles, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, and the Department of Transportation, the number of electric vehicles on the road has increased to 30,181 up … Read more

IRA Incentives, Leases, and Batteries

Lucid Lease FB Ad including full IRA incentive

EV Manufacturers/Dealers Offering Consumer EV Leases, Incentives Included This is a follow up to a post from January 5, when we first published about a surprising turn of events with respect to eligibility for the … Read more

November CHEAPR

CHEAPR Rebates by Month Thru Nov 2022

New CHEAPR incentives to arrive this year Expansions to CHEAPR, courtesy of Public Act 22-25, passed by the legislature last year, effective as of July 2022, implemented piecemeal as they are built, will see the … Read more

Leasing Loophole?

Hyundai Ioniq 5

Can Leasing Be a Workaround for the IRA EV Incentive Restrictions? Post by Barry Kresch This notion was floated a while back and I dismissed it as a fringe theory. However, it seems to be … Read more

EV Club Look-back on 2022

Tesla Model Y at Wilton FD

2022 was an action-packed year as you can see below. But we wanted to begin by saying a big Thank You to all of our members and supporters. EV Evangelist Award Club president, Barry Kresch, was given … Read more