What Happens to EVs Without A Tax Credit?

by Tim Healey

Updated: October 14th, 2025

what happens to evs without a tax credit

Welcome to this week’s TTAC podcast! This week we’re discussing how the loss of the EV tax credit will affect the market.

We discuss that with Karl Brauer from iSeeCars.com. TTAC contributor Matthew Guy and I discuss foaming wheel cleaners for our Stuff We Use segment and we also cover NASCAR on the road course at Sonoma.

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We thank Matthew Guy and Karl Brauer for their time and Matt Posky for editing. Most of all, we thank you for listening!

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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El scotto on Jul 21, 2025

Everything about your vehicle is subsidized in some way. Drive on a paved road? Subsidized. I've spent way too much time either stationed in or floating off the coasts of Places That Suck. Talk to the hand when you say petroleum isn't subsidized.

What you LOTTEs can't handle is that most EV drivers have at least a college degree and live in a big city or its green leafy suburbs. Live in an apt or condo? These mysterious places called "stores" have chargers. Why there's even an app that show if the chargers at the new-to-you things called stores are working. Some workplaces have chargers in their parking garage/parking lot. It's a prerequisite, or perk for those who think a Bunn coffeemaker is the height of office perks.

What hasn't been addressed it all the marketing people who convinced their car company that "These new EV's will sell like Ford Mustangs in 1965." They were way wrong. Another thing that hasn't been addressed it that most EV's aren't that good looking. Apologies to those on here who own EVs.

If I would get an EV I'd get a Lucid.

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- Jalop1991 on Jul 26, 2025
  
  It's a prerequisite
  BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!
  It may be a perquisite, but it most certainly is NOT a prerequisite.
  
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EBFlexing on ur mom on Jul 22, 2025

"Talk to the hand when you say petroleum isn't subsidized."

Nobody said it isn't. Learn to read. While you're at it, name a commodity that isn't subsidized.

Google could be your friend.

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