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The subsidies are apparently going away shortly if the new tax bill passes.... That's gonna KILL electric car sales particularly for that price range (Model 3, Egolf, Leaf, Bolt). $7500 is a big chunk to take out of a 30-35K car... A 100K model S, not so much, but it'll impact them too...

I should know, the only reason I lease an E-golf (great car btw) is because that subsidy made the car itself free to me (lease is $140/mo, less than I spend on gas otherwise, plus other benefits). At full price, no way !!

I'm pretty sure The Tesla 3 will be a failure, it's ugly and it'll be late, by which time VW/Audi/BMW/NIssan/Mini will have similar offering with a normal dashboard and a nose that doesn't look like platypus hit a wall hard !

But Tesla has been branching out into battery manufacturing and they could very likely survive doing that instead... Musk can be difficult but he has a pretty decent track record compared to pelican forum members ;-)
I would not buy TSLA stock though, that's for sure.