EV tax credit score’s twisted timeline, IKEA charging, Nader and Tesla FSD: At this time’s Automobile Information

Ralph Nader calls out Tesla Full Self-Driving. Electrify America provides chargers at IKEA. Might the EV tax credit score reboot break WTO guidelines? And never even trade insiders can confirm the EV tax credit score is coming again earlier than the tip of the 12 months, so purchase now. This and extra, right here at Inexperienced Automobile Stories. 

The revamped model of the U.S. electrical automobile tax credit score, a part of the Inflation Discount Act (IRA) probably up for vote within the Home as quickly as right this moment, helps set our provide chain up for home battery manufacturing and plenty of extra American-built EVs. Nevertheless it isn’t going to look so candy at first—that’s as a result of the brand new laws has no provision extending the “old” EV tax credit to purchases for the remainder of the 12 months. The one exception laid out is a binding, money-down contract to purchase an EV for supply but this 12 months, or shopping for that EV earlier than President Biden indicators the invoice. You will have two weeks, so get to it!

That isn’t the one element that’s turn into extra controversial in regards to the invoice. The European Union now claims that the brand new model of the EV tax credit score, in its prioritization of American-made content material, might break WTO rules in discriminating towards European producers. 

At greater than 25 U.S. IKEA shops, Electrify America add extra fast-chargers for the EV-driving public and charging stations for EV supply drivers—on the way in which for the retailer searching for zero-emission dwelling deliveries by 2025.

And in case you missed it, earlier this week shopper security advocate Ralph Nader referred to as on federal regulators to order the removal of Tesla Full Self-Driving from all automobiles. 

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