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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

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

How Not to Implement Policy

Cars parked before the EV parade - EV C;lub CT

Post by Barry Kresch Summary of Comments Submitted to the IRS for IRA EV Incentive The EV Club has partnered with the Electric Vehicle Association to author comments for the in-process IRS rule-making regarding the … Read more

Tesla Still Driving EV Adoption

Line Chart of EV Registration Trend in CT

Registered EVs by Make The pace of new EV model introductions has dramatically increased over the past year, but it is still Tesla that is driving the largest share of adoption. In other words, Tesla … Read more

Federal EVSE Credit Returns

EV Charger

Post by Barry Kresch Tax Credit for Purchase and Installation of an EV Charger The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act has amended US Code 26, Section 30C to reinstate a tax credit for the purchase … Read more

In the In-Between

Hyundai Ioniq 5

Photo: Hyundai Ioniq 5 is an example of a vehicle that immediately loses eligibility due to its not being manufactured in North America Post by Barry Kresch Which EVs Are Eligible for the Federal Tax … Read more

New Federal EV Incentive

Inflation Reduction Act

Post by Barry Kresch EV Transferable Tax Credit Included in Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law on August 16th. With it comes a new EV purchase incentive. It … Read more

Eversource Modifies Telematics Monitoring

Observant EV Owners Noticed Frequent Pings Several people posting on Facebook and writing to the EV Club who have registered for the charging incentives via telematics noticed that their vehicles were being status-checked every 30 … Read more

The Telematics Vampire

Home Charging Incentives Come With Unexpected Cost When Eversource and United Illuminating began offering incentives to offset the cost of buying and installing a level 2 home charging unit, the incentives also include up to … Read more