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Old 10-11-2023, 04:28 PM   #259 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary View Post
There'll be a $4,000 point-of-sale credit on used EV's starting in 2023.
You're still thinking the subsidy is money in your pocket. It's not. It's money for the dealerships.

The price is the intersection of supply and demand. A $4k "credit" doesn't increase the supply of used vehicles, but it does increase demand. Price goes up.

When I mention $14k used Bolts in Oregon, those same exact cars were going for $12,500 in CA. Oregon has a $2k used EV credit, so Oregon dealerships buy up the inventory in CA, ship them 1,000 miles north, and bump the price up.
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