How automakers are reacting to the end of the $7,500 EV tax credit

Tesla is raising lease prices; Ford and GM may have found a loophole.

Just after midnight this morning, in addition to getting a federal government shutdown, we also lost all federal tax credits for new electric vehicles, used electric vehicles, and commercial electric vehicles.

Sadly, this was not a surprise. During last year's election, the Trump campaign made no secret of its disgust toward clean vehicles (and clean energy in general), and it promised to end subsidies meant to encourage Americans to switch from internal combustion engines to EVs. Once in power, the Republicans moved quickly to make this happen.

Federal clean vehicle incentives had only recently been revamped in then-US President Joe Biden's massive investment in clean technologies as part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. To qualify for the $7,500 tax credit, a new EV had to have its final assembly in North America, and certain percentages of its battery content needed to be domestically sourced.

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Hands-on with Fallout 76’s next expansion: Yep, it has Walton Goggins

TV tie-ins aside, it’s the combat tweaks over the past year that really matter.

Like anybody, I have a few controversial gaming opinions and tastes. One of the most controversial is that Fallout 76 —the multiplayer take on Bethesda's rethink of a beloved '90s open-world computer roleplaying game—has been my favorite online multiplayer game since its launch.

As much as I like the game, though, I've been surprised that it has actually grown over the past seven years. I'm not saying it's seen a full, No Man's Sky-like redemption story, though. It's still not for everyone, and in some ways, it has fallen behind the times since 2018.

Nevertheless, the success of the streaming TV show based on the game franchise has attracted new players and given the developers a chance to seize the moment and attempt to complete a partial redemption story. To help make that happen, the game's developers will soon release an expansion fully capitalizing on that TV series for the first time, and I got to spend a few hours playing that update to see if it's any fun.

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Smartes Fernglas Unistellar Envision: Am Himmel spazierengehen

Das Unistellar Envision ist ein smartes Fernglas mit AR-Fähigkeiten. Wir konnten die ersten Prototypen ausprobieren – mit großer Freude! Ein Hands-on von Mario Keller (Astronomie, Augmented Reality)

Das Unistellar Envision ist ein smartes Fernglas mit AR-Fähigkeiten. Wir konnten die ersten Prototypen ausprobieren - mit großer Freude! Ein Hands-on von Mario Keller (Astronomie, Augmented Reality)

255 Milliarden: Flexible Stromnutzung mit großen Einspareffekten

Weniger Gaskraftwerke, flexible Netzentgelte und dezentrale Lösungen fordert eine Unternehmensstudie. Die Einsparungen wären groß, speziell für Unternehmen. (Energiewende, GreenIT)

Weniger Gaskraftwerke, flexible Netzentgelte und dezentrale Lösungen fordert eine Unternehmensstudie. Die Einsparungen wären groß, speziell für Unternehmen. (Energiewende, GreenIT)