Senate version The tax credit may be eliminated soon to purchase electric vehicles compared to the version of the house in the vast tax and spending bills.

House bill For some car manufacturers at the end of 2025, and for others were called for those tax credits at the end of 2026.

The draft the Senate released over the weekend determines the same expiration date: September 30, now three months later.

But the megabil is far from the end. Senate is currently voting on potential Amendment For their version, and then the houses and the Senate versions should still be there Meet and greet,

But for EV advocates who expected the Senate EV tax credit would expand the life of Credit, the draft released over the weekend was a shock.

Albert Gore III, Executive Director of the Zero Emission Transportation Association, wrote in a statement, “To vote for this bill, as written, is to effectively abandon the goal that we share all of us to make minerals, batteries and future vehicle production markets in the United States.”

Meanwhile, the Trump-Educated American Energy Alliance celebrated the possibility of ending the EV tax credit rapidly. Group president Tom Pile wrote in a statement, “Extending green gives on the back of American taxpayers is shortsite and neglected.”

In an interesting development, the nation’s auto dealer – who were during the biden administration were they were Vocal Electric vehicles – EV is advocating to keep the tax credit for a long time. The National Automobile Dealers Association has urged the Congress to call the Congress “a proper transition period”.

The group wrote in a statement emailed to NPR, “A sudden representation of EV tax credit will disrupt the car market and will cause unnecessary consumer confusion.” And Carmax and Karwana, two nationwide used veterans, joined one Open letter Calling for credits to continue “at least the next several years”, arguing that sudden elimination will be very disruptive to the exclusively used auto market. The current tax credit includes a used vehicle credit, priced at $ 4,000 per car, which is clearly designed to bring EVS for low and medium -income car shopkeepers.

Sen Berney Moreno (R-Ohio), a former car dealer and a vocal critic of EVS, put a part of the Republican argument against the tax credit against it. Senate floor In the weekend. He took a fictional example of a billionaire, which decides to lease a $ 500,000 electric rolls-Royce. “Democrats gave a check of $ 7,500 to the billionaire,” he said. “They say we are helping billionaires, when they are giving $ 7,500 checks to people leasing these cars.”

It is true that the tax credit to lease EV – sometimes the flaws of the lease are called – not equal Income and price restriction The rest as EV Tax Credit.

The EV Tax Credit was not the only green provision to obtain more radical deductions than the Senate weekend draft as he did in the house bill. Senate is not only considering Drawing tax credit for wind and solar projectsBut adding new taxes on those renewable energy sources, unless companies cannot prove that they do not use Chinese components. And the Senate can eliminate all fees on vehicle manufacturers that do not follow the rules of fuel economy that environmental groups say that will make those rules toothless.

On the other hand, each rollback of the EV policy contained in the house version of the bill survived the revision process of the Senate. A new annual fee on electric vehicles and hybrids was not in the latest version (although it could return to a separate bill). Neither was a proposal to eliminate the rules of the Environmental Protection Agency for Telpype emission standards.