There's also an income cap for buyers ($150,000 adjusted gross income, for an individual). Only SUVs under $80,000 and cars under $55,000 qualify, and they have to be built in North America. There are other limits that were added in last year's climate law, and are already in effect.
Now they are likely to make EV tax credits even more confusing, at a time when car shoppers and companies had already been frustrated for months about the law's complexity. The battery sourcing requirements were a provision included in the IRA, but they had essentially been put on pause as the IRS tried to figure out the details of how to implement them. On April 18, the Internal Revenue Service will release an updated list of which vehicles are still eligible for the tax credit, based on the new guidance.Īnd the saga's not over: The Treasury Department still has not clarified how it will apply other requirements that kick in starting in 2024. The Treasury Department outlined on Friday how it plans to walk this tightrope and implement those sourcing requirements - essentially, issuing technical guidance on how carmakers can determine if their cars qualify. Those tensions are coming to the fore again as the White House prepares to belatedly implement a key rule of the IRA: A requirement that a certain percentage of battery minerals and components be sourced from North America or a U.S.
After all, if the only goal were to increase electric car sales it would be easier to do it without any limitations on production. In the short term, those goals are in tension. Image: Nic Antaya/Getty Imagesīut the complex rules are also designed to incentivize U.S.-based production, to build up a domestic clean-vehicle supply chain and reduce reliance on China. The Biden administration wants a certain percentage of battery minerals and components to be sourced from North America or a U.S. President Biden speaks at the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit on Nov.
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