Thinking of buying an EV in Colorado? You could get $26,500 in discounts

[ryzvonusef]

https://www.cpr.org/2023/08/04/colorado-electric-vehicle-discounts-guide/

[nikanj]

Buried deep in the article:

”Is it really possible to combine all these tax credits and rebates at once?

Not yet, but it could be soon.”

This seems like a weird hit piece against EVs, trying to stir rage with all the different subsidies (though you can only get some of them, and many being non-refundable tax rebates, not cash rewards).

[downvotetruth]

Colorado Vehicle Exchange program:

> "An eligible trade-in vehicle must have failed an emissions test or be at least 12 years old"

This seems like an incentive to damage/remove/sell the particulate filter and catalytic converter.

[sparrish → downvotetruth]

That won't be hard to arrange. Just park it on the street in Denver overnight and your catalytic converter will be gone.

[sparrish]

The Xcel Energy rebate doesn't cover all of Colorado. There are a lot of counties Xcel doesn't service - like El Paso (Colorado's largest county with CS, the second largest metro area in CO). This is mostly just for Denver.

[a-user-you-like]

Ahh, the poor subsidizing the rich getting electric vehicles

[upon_drumhead → a-user-you-like]

The rich that qualify for “< 80 percent median income OR enrolled in assistance programs”

[a-user-you-like → upon_drumhead]

7500 federal credit?