Clean Machines -- Issue #8 August 2025
GM is diversifying EV infrastructure, Federal incentives for EVs end 9/30, CCAN Action Fund is raffling off brand-new supercars, your Tesla is here, history lesson, and can’t buy this.
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Infrastructure Report…
GM-Pilot stations with EVgo now cover more than 130 locations
The automaker also has GM Energy projects with ChargePoint and EVgo
GM is also part of Ionna, seeking 30,000 fast-chargers by 2030
Looking to the future…
Class in session: EV 101
What to know about buying electric vehicles after the federal tax incentives end.
The massive tax and spending cut bill that Congress recently passed ends federal tax incentives for electric vehicles.
Buyers have until Sept. 30 to qualify for the federal tax credits on EVs before they are terminated. But experts say there are still strong financial reasons to consider buying the vehicles even without those incentives.
Unless you don’t have a way to install or access home charging easily, your excuses are quickly disappearing, though. In 2024, public charging kept pace—or better—with the number of EVs on the highways. New EVs are charging quicker and more consistently in road trips; the options along the way have become more reliable; and with Tesla and other brands’ EVs all soon compatible with the same charge connectors, nobody’s excluded.
Deal me in…
Want to drive a brand-new Rivian electric SUV or pickup truck? Or how about a Lucid with a 500-mile range? Or, dare we say, an electric Porsche? The CCAN Action Fund can help.
One ticket gets you THREE chances to win!
Note: DEEVA receives no benefit from this raffle other than cleaner air.
Tesla self-delivers…
Whatever your opinion of Tesla, the car, the company, or the CEO, you have to admit that the tech is pretty interesting. They just started having the cars deliver themselves.
Extended range is not new technology…
Looking back through the history of the automobile, you come across specific chapters that seem out of chronological order—they appear ahead of their time. One such chapter is the Lohner-Porsche Mixte, which, by the exact definition we use today, is an extended-range electric vehicle... from 1901.
Ferdinand Porsche Created A ‘Range Extender’ EV 125 Years Ago.
Support for the Delaware Electric Vehicle Association is provided by:
Our partners, Evolve Electric Vehicle Specialists and Scott Knows Solar.
Most Chevy EV Customers Don’t Buy A Home Charger At The Dealership
Despite a clear trend toward home charging among electric vehicle owners, most Chevy EV buyers and lessees leave the dealership without purchasing a home charger.
According to GM’s internal data, more than 80 percent of all EV owners (regardless of brand) typically charge their vehicles at home, favoring the convenience and cost savings of plugging in when parked in their garage or driveway, rather than a public charger. Nevertheless, more than 80 percent of Chevy EV customers still choose not to buy a home charging solution from their local dealer.
Could this be your next EV?
Car and Driver review of the Ford Mustang Mach-E.
Distinctive styling, competitive driving range estimates, GT, and Rally trims are quicker to 60 mph than the V-8–powered Mustang Dark Horse.
Not as much fun to drive as an actual muscle car, it lacks the intoxicating burble of a combustion V-8, and its acceleration zeal drops off quickly past 60 mph.
If you take the punchy acceleration and sporty styling from the Mustang and combine it with EV efficiency and SUV practicality, you get the Mustang Mach-E.
And finally: Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car…
You’ve probably heard of BYD.
A middling player in the auto industry just a few years ago, the Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer BYD surpassed Tesla last year to become the world’s top-selling E.V. brand and is expected to pull even with the world’s biggest carmakers, Toyota and Volkswagen, by 2030.
Yet most Americans have never even seen a BYD and probably won’t anytime soon.
DEEVA Membership is open to owners of Battery Electric and Plug-In Hybrid vehicles in Delaware, Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Maryland.