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Re: Six new electric Volvos will debut by 2026 | Ars Technica
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2023, 09:56:46 PM »
>>the seven-seat SUV should sell for under $80,000.

Not that I want a seven-seat SUV, but... ouch!

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« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2023, 10:40:15 PM »
My daughter is engaged to a mid- or upper-level exec at their US operations.  I've asked for a big 'father of the bride' discount ...so far, no luck. hhh

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« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2023, 05:29:50 PM »
I realized that the "under $80,000" figure is mentioned because that is the limit for getting a federal tax credit on an SUV.

And BTW, this is just stupid. We are trying to encourage people to reduce their environmental footprint and we do it by adding a special dispensation to the largest, most environmentally-unfriendly cars. I understand that getting one gas SUV off the road counts more than getting many Priuses off the road, but I just don't see subsidizing $79,000 lithium hogs*

*I figured the chances that I just coined that term this minute were very, very low. In fact, there are a still very few hits around the web, but only three, maybe four in Google even with the supplemental results. So it is not yet common. I didn't come up with it first, but there's a good chance you heard it here first.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32018748
https://twitter.com/OPB/status/1618656010909925400
https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/ytgnkk/what_is_the_equivalent_term_for_gas_guzzler_for/