They don’t think it’s a farce, they think it’s just a side effect of “progress” and we should just deal with it.
Oil men love socialism: they get to profit while society pays the very real costs.
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To the best of my knowledge, CARB states will still be a thing and those are the credits I was referring to. Those are the ones the OEMs have been forced to buy from Tesla in the past and have made up a large % of Tesla’s revenue.
I mistakenly referred to them as carbon credits.
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Ah. There are also CAFE fines that are effectively dead.
That being said, who knows if CARB survives.
California needs to just impose a $4/gal gas tax and get it over with already.
I’d be curious if hybrid demand drops when carmakers lower prices on non hybrids. Toyota/Ford eCVTs are an engineering marvel but many other hybrids (cough 4xe, Tacoma, Tundra, Sequoia) are just a bad idea and expensive and unreliable.
Most people will still be undeterred
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It appears that Blazer and Equinox have lost EV Supplier, leaving just Silverado.
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Yikes! And here I was thinking about using my supplier discount again this year.
I am assuming Cadillac electric SUVs (Lyriq, Optiq, and Vistiq) also lost the supplier discount or are they just updating the website?
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From the page I linked I don’t see those, and Hummer EV isn’t listed on the GMC page either.
I would think the August programs would be updated by now.
Are you thinking of replacing your Audi lease with another Blazer or Equinox?
I turned in the Audi at the end of June.
I also sold my BMW last week and I’ll eventually replace that with [something].
I didn’t want to be holding the bag when a 6-year-old 7 Series decided to act like a 6-year-old 7 Series. 
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I am adding another EV lease to the fleet this week. Definitely fear of missing out on the $7500 but also Colorado is reducing their $3500 EV rebate to $8xx in January. It makes perfect sense to pull the trigger now and add one that I likely don’t need but like to have . In the meanwhile, I will store my gas, paid off vehicle for the next 2 years. Save the miles on that and enjoy driving my new ev. I do have another ev lease so both leases will end up expiring at the same time, which is fine with me.
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@snowkingz posted this link, which seems to contradict my interpretation of EV Supplier evaporating in August for certain models, based on the link I posted above.
Perhaps someone can confirm. Sorry if I unintentionally misled anyone.
Hey friends
My 2023 I4 e40 lease is due in 10 months. I friggin love this car and I just might buy it when the term is over. Would a BMW dealership let me
Buy it for a negotiated price considering the values have dropped so heavily?
Or
Should I jump ship on this one now and try to roll into another lease of an I4 while the incentives are still there?
My buyout is currently $47k 
Just keep it to term…
You can’t “negotiate” the buy out price
They will always have deals on leases, if you “roll” into another one-you still owe the remaining 10 months that have to be absorbed in the new payment 
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Put it up for transfer and get yourself a 2025.
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Just finish the lease term and find one in secondhand market. Looks like low mileage 2023’s are approaching $30k.
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More child support here we come.
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Paying $249/mo for 2023 ioniq 5 lease ending Feb 1 2026. Mileage is not an issue because we are more 7k/yr type family vs 12k miles. Would it make sense to return early and get a new lease by end of September? I assume there’s a fee to return early?
My budget is to target cheap leases <$300/mo like the current one. Did that with a one pay Bolt back in 2020 and did that again with the low monthly payment for ioniq 5 in early 2024.
Anything more and it makes sense to buy a used EV I think. Especially since use case is low mileage per year. Right now the cheap lease is much better than the EV depreciation.
If true I’d extend the lease as much as you can and hunker down until you see something comparable.
How was this even possible? Bravo if there wasn’t some massive down payment.
What I’d suggest is to extend the lease as long as possible, up to six months if you order another BMW, to fully benefit from the low monthly payment. If you were to return early you’d have to pay off the remainder of the lease as well as lease-end fees, but again in your position I would keep the i5 at $249/month as long as possible.