Electric for Everyone with Josh Boone (Veloz)

Yeah, no, it's significant, I think, to mention that, right? Like the Ford progress is baked in at this point.

When you look at major automakers, Kia, Hyundai Motor Group, even Toyota, the Germans, Americans, GM and Ford, you have pretty major investment into their EV programs.

And so even if they slow down some of those investments, they're not actually backtracking, they're not shutting down existing factories.

And you're talking about serious multi year investments going on into making products that, as you said, aren't the future are already here and are pretty good for lots of people much, much better, much lower cost, we're going to see longer ranges, faster charging, all of the things that have been that have been concerns for people are, I've been surprised just how rapidly they're getting better.

And I like how you emphasize ease for all is not just showing the federal tax credit, you're going to the state and local level, because that's not heralded as much in the media.

It's harder to report on and we have less local media now than we used to.

But I'll just give an example where I live in Colorado.

There's a pretty decent $3,500 currently incentive for purchasing a new EV or leasing.

And that is funded in part by things like a retail delivery tax.

There's actually lots of pretty cool, innovative ways that states can fund their own alternatives.

And I think we're going to see more of that.

And that's really exciting.

In addition, I've heard utility companies have an interest in electrification.

And they are also fronting some pretty interesting incentive programs to get people to realize savings on their power bill or at the very least substantial savings compared to what they'd have from a gas vehicle through having an EV.

Yeah, the data says once people drive electric, whether they buy a new electric vehicle, lease an electric vehicle, or take advantage of the used federal tax credit and get into a used EV, they don't go back.

And then what they go do is tell all their neighbors and friends, and then those folks get excited about electric vehicles.

It's a really exciting space.

Riding in an EV is believing in EVs.

And your point is well taken in terms of incentives.

There are all the incentives that you mentioned, by the way, big hat tip to Colorado for the additional incentive that they're providing.

It's a pretty meaningful amount of money.

And we're seeing a lot of sales progress in the state.

So hat tip to you all for leading the way on that.

But there are a whole wide variety of non-monetary incentives that still exist depending on where you are in the country.

For example, there is access to HOV lanes.