The Half-Hearted Incentive in the OBBB It is old news by now that the federal legislation did away with the purchase incentives for EVs as of October 1, but standing sheepishly in its place is … Read more
NEVI Program Moving Ahead Following Court Decision NEVI, or the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program, that was a component of the Infrastructure and Jobs Act (aka, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law) that was passed during the … Read more
Strong Third Quarter For EV Sales, As Expected The urgency created by the near term expiration of the EV purchase incentive was expected to create “pull-through” demand during the third quarter and that is what … Read more
Post by Barry Kresch EVs And The Grid Are Friends And soon they’ll even be dating. One of the (many) common EV myths is that EVs will crash the grid. In reality, an under-appreciated aspect … Read more
Cut in Standard Incentive Likely to Stay, Absent a Huge Drop Off Or Restructuring After Federal Incentive Expires Post by Barry Kresch With the CHEAPR rebate program running hot, the agency tasked with running it, … Read more
Newly Released IRS Rule Making Slightly Loosens Sunset Of The Federal Tax Credit The IRS, which creates all the fine-print for the incentive, issued an updated set of rules on August 21 about the incentive … Read more
PURA Docket Directs Eversource and UI to Comment on Proposed Details The docket number is 21-09-17. It is a proposed final decision, so implementation is still pending a final round of comments. ICE MHDs are … Read more
Demand Spike Creates Budget Concerns DEEP announced that high recent utilization rates of its CHEAPR EV purchase incentive are causing it to pre-empt its planned August 15th incentive cut with a larger cut taking effect … Read more
Photo: Chevrolet Equinox Changes to BEV incentive and Rebate+ (income-limited) Incentives BEV incentive to be reduced for the second time this year, to $1000 Changes to this program are forthcoming on August 15, 2025. These … Read more
Impact on EV Incentives The House passed the Senate version of the bill. Had they not done so, there would have had to have been a negotiation to reconcile them which could have been protracted. … Read more