Everyone should be contacting their representatives in congress to support Rep. Mike Kelly’s bill to kill the $7,500 tax credit.
This tax credit is for all EV’s that qualify and includes the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf.
Without subsidy, these vehicles would disappear almost overnight. The only way they could be sold on the open market is for the price to be not more than a comparably sized conventionally powered vehicle, and the economy of scale is not there to justify the reduction in price.
GM produced an EV model several years ago, as a test of acceptability, but it too, disappeared. Not because of lack of public interest, but because they had glaring shortcomings of design and engineering problems, being only very short-range and with what could have proven to be serious problems if involved in a collision. The tires were too narrow to provide adequate braking in panic situations, and the pattery pack, like that of the Volt model, was subject to potential overheating is the cooling is in any way interrupted.
Not ready for prime time.