Welcome to a new episode of the Electric Podcast.

I am Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra.

Are you doing today, Seth?

I'm good.

All right.

This episode of the Electric podcast is sponsored by the Electric American Solar Challenge

coming in just a few weeks.

So we're going to have a little bit more to say about them later on the show.

But it's a cool student solar car race in competition that we're sponsoring.

So we're going to talk a little bit more about them later on.

But first off, we're going to start with some test and use as we usually do.

But it was kind of light in testing news this week.

We have a bunch of Rivian stuff because Rivian and their investor day and they had this big partnership announcement that we're going to discuss in details. And then a bunch of other news. After that, we're going to get into you guys comment and questions. So if you guys have any questions for us, you can put them in the comment section right now. We'll get to them at the second half of the show. It can be about any of the subjects that we are about to get into or any other thing in the EV world, the renewable energy world that you want or take on.

It will be our pleasure. Let's start with Thessler changing their approach a little bit regarding the tax credit and the battery type of battery cells in their vehicle, giving you some choices now, which is interesting.

So all these automakers now are kind of trying to adapt to the new rules of the federal tax credit vehicles. they increased requirements in terms of battery component, battery material sourcing, battery cell production and all that.

So trying to adapt just last week, we talked about the MOL3 Long Range being added to

it, which was a big deal. But there's two sides of this thing.

There's the car that needs to be eligible through those requirements that we just discussed,

but also the buyer needs to be eligible.

And there's plenty of liars that are not eligible because they often earn more than the $150,000 in yearly income for a ninja filers or $300,000 for dual fighters.

So you might want this car and you just don't have access to it.

So you might benefit for taking a vehicle that is not eligible and getting a better vehicle,

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