Chevy Bolt: the First Practical, Mass-Market Electric Vehicle

Post by bzbarsky » Mon, Oct 23, 2017, 6:16 AM UTC

usaphp wrote: post #132

bzbarsky wrote: post #115

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There is no way you owe $7500 in federal taxes on a $40k/year salary. In the worst case (single or married filing separately; in this range the numbers look the same), the standard deduction is $6350 and the single personal exemption is $4050 in 2017. So your taxable income is $29,600 assuming you aren't putting any pre-tax money into retirement savings. The 10% tax bracket for those filing statuses goes to $9325 in…

> To get to $7500 in tax you have to have about $47k of taxable income, and hence about $57k of gross income The OP said “most people don’t pay $7500...” which is not true since I said you have to have “at least 40K+ salary in order to afford that $35k+ car. I did not say you have to have 40k salary to pay 7500$+ in taxes

Post by kbenson » Mon, Oct 23, 2017, 6:21 AM UTC

Aloha wrote: post #158

kbenson wrote: post #126

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Well, it could be ceramic, which is what some competition cars use, and that wouldn't rust. But I doubt it.

He said 'metal' that implies not ceramic.

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 23, 2017, 6:33 AM UTC

chairmanwow wrote: post #111

As a sidebar, I really wish that Blendle would exit Beta so that I could buy these extremely interesting articles as a one-off micropayment. I don't intend to get a subscription with every top news organization (NY Times, New Yorker, The Atlantic, WSJ, Economist etc), but I would be more than happy to pay $0.25-0.75 for an article like this. I want to pay for their content, but getting locked into a subscription when…

Post by nitrogen » Mon, Oct 23, 2017, 6:38 AM UTC

eclipxe wrote: post #153

hedora wrote: post #138

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I actually could have lemon-lawed it, but once it crossed that line it didn’t have any more trouble until the warranty expired. A few months after that, the driver-side heater went out, and the radio started to fail. The fact that so many things failed makes me think there are significant systemic issues with GM vehicle platforms (and not just individual components). The more I think about the regenerative braking is…

Didn't you say your issue was caused by some non-standard parts installed by the dealer?

Post by dang » Mon, Oct 23, 2017, 6:45 AM UTC

coolspot wrote: post #25

hedora wrote: post #20

We just managed to sell another flagship GM vehicle, and the software was so bad, it was nearly a deal-breaker. (Most years of this model had software bugs that were so bad, they could literally kill you — for example, the exhaust system could overheat, and burn the car down). Also, basic electro-mechanical things, like seat belts and the FM radio started to die after 3-4 years. This is with light use in CA. Even whe…

Elon, you are using wrong account.