Comments on: Electric cars most popular in CA https://calwatchdog.com/2015/03/15/electric-cars-most-popular-in-ca/ Sun, 29 Mar 2015 22:44:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: Richard Rider https://calwatchdog.com/2015/03/15/electric-cars-most-popular-in-ca/#comment-113414 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 22:44:19 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=75121#comment-113414 In reply to Tesla_x.

EGAD! I stand corrected. Thanks for that post.

]]> By: Tesla_x https://calwatchdog.com/2015/03/15/electric-cars-most-popular-in-ca/#comment-112285 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 19:09:12 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=75121#comment-112285 In reply to Richard Rider.

The electric subsidies are MUCH LARGER than that, and for a tesla, can amount to a CARB subsidy of ~$35,000 per vehicle.

CARB and Tesla motors are counting battery swap ZEV credits without audit for tesla’s almost exclusive economic benefit, to the tune of several hundred million dollars.

Read more here:
http://doubtingisthinking.blogspot.com.es

And watch the progress of Tesla’s first and not yet publicly accessible battery swap station:
http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/31947-Harris-Ranch-is-getting-first-battery-swap-station/page30

How can they accrue the swap benefits for YEARS when their FIRST public swap station has yet to officially open for business?

Do I smell a half a billion dollar CARB/Tesla emissions credit scandal in the making?

]]> By: Richard Rider https://calwatchdog.com/2015/03/15/electric-cars-most-popular-in-ca/#comment-112266 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 14:17:43 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=75121#comment-112266 This California dominance is less impressive when one realizes that state taxpayers pay up to a $5,000 rebate for each electric car purchased. I doubt any other state comes close to such a subsidy. This is over and above the FEDERAL electric car rebate.
http://energycenter.org/clean-vehicle-rebate-project

Thank goodness we are a rich state and can afford such extravagance. Just don’t look behind the curtain . . . .

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