Toyota verkoopt BEV in USA, federale premie is weldra opgesoupeerd aan hybrides...

[Micele]

Tja, dat wisten ze.

Maar toch geef ik Toyota alle kredieten dat ze in de USA hun BEV-modellen (ook de volgende) vlotjes kwijt geraken. Goede naam en groot dealernetwerk.

https://electrek.co/2022/07/01/toyot...ts-on-hybrids/

Toyota just started its BEV program, but it wasted all its tax credits on hybrids

Jameson Dow - Jul. 1st 2022

Toyota has sold its 200,000th plug-in car in the US, meaning its access to the $7,500 federal tax credit will sunset over the course of the next 15 months.

The company joins Tesla and GM in no longer qualifying for credits, with Ford and Nissan also expected to hit the limit later this year.

The credits are designed to sunset gradually, so those with a current Toyota order will still get the full credit as long as they take delivery before the end of this quarter.

Since Toyota sold its 200,000th plug-in car last quarter, that means the full credits continue until the end of this quarter (September 30). Then, there will be a reduced half-credit of $3,750 available for the next two quarters, and $1,875 for the two quarters after that. These credits have no unit limit, so Toyota can use them for as many plug-ins as it can sell in that time period.

This moment may come as a surprise to many (though Toyota warned us about it in April), since Toyota hasn’t really sold any BEV cars yet. It had a short-lived RAV4 EV program in the early 2010s, with electric powertrain supplied by Tesla, but that only accounted for about 2,500 units. And recently it has finally shipped its first BEV, the Toyota bZ4X, but only a couple thousand of those have been sold so far (and are currently being recalled to stop the wheels from falling off).

But Toyota has been selling low-range plug-in hybrids all along, with the original 5.2kWh Plug-In Prius and 8.8kWh Prius Prime (which we at Electrek weren’t fans of). The US federal tax credit applies to plug-in vehicles with more than 5kWh worth of battery storage, with a benefit of $500/kWh until the cap of $7,500 is reached.

So low-range cars like the Plug-In Prius with its barely-over-threshold battery only qualify for the minimum possible credit of $2,500, while the Prime gets $4,500. The newer RAV4 Prime PHEV has an 18kWh battery, which is enough to get the full $7,500 credit.

Because of all these plug-in hybrid sales, Toyota has used up its allotment of 200,000 credits largely on low-range hybrids, leaving a big chunk of credit value on the table.

Now it has finally started selling BEVs with the bZ4X, but it’s off to a slow start. Toyota only expects to sell about 7,000 units this year, which means only a couple thousand BEV customers will benefit from the full tax credit which starts to sunset three months from now. That’s assuming it can handle its current recall issues quickly.

Diegene die al een tijdje geleden hun bZ4X besteld hebben kunnen nog hopen op een full tax credit ($ 7,5k) die aflopende is binnen 3 maanden.