It wasn’t long ago that Tesla CEO Elon Musk was advocating for ending the $7,500 tax credit for buyers of electric vehicles. “Take away the subsidies. It will only help Tesla,” he said in a post on his social media platform X last year,

The federal EV tax credit is, to put it lightly, in limbo given the current wording of the GOP's "big, beautiful bill." Though a lot of back-and-forth remains, with the Senate haggling with the House — and senators from red states with EV factories loath to damage the industry — it is more likely than not that GOP holdouts will fall in line and