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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
Agreed, and it should have been that way from the beginning. Help with the infrastructure makes sense, but help with the car purchase did not, IMO.
I think you nailed it with the EV option being the match for the fully decked out upper tier option package of a similar car, at least in the short run. That's really what the Bolt and the Equinox is in relationship to it's ICE counterparts.
Of course I would have taken the incentive if it were available when I purchased my LYRIQ. It didn't qualify at the time, but GM did cover it with a $7,500 "GM Promise" credit, and an additional $5K off for them delaying my car from 2023 MY to 2024 so I got the benefit without taxpayers having to assist.
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You did well with your purchase. All the vehicles I would consider buying at this point are godawful expensive and I wouldn’t be surprised to see manufacturers price evs aggressively enough to improve demand that they actually become a better value than their ice offerings. I also believe that legacy manufacturers will gain the upper hand in the ev market (along with tesla) as late comers go out of business. Lucid recently did a major reverse split, probably to to dilute some more and that's never a good sign imo.