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Are Central New Yorkers eager to go electric? Tax rebates are convincing some to change

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Syracuse Auto Expo is on its third day now and many neighbors who have attended the event are seeing electric cars.

CNY Central went to the show to see how likely neighbors are to buy one of their own soon.

According to Kelly Blue Book, a record 1.2 million electric cars were sold in 2023. One of those cars that has been electrified over the last couple of years is the Ford Mustang now the Mustang Mach-E.

Marcy Waldauer loves the Mustang and never knew they electrified it until she went to the car show and saw it.

Marcy and her husband Marc are one of many who are interested in going electric due to tax rebates and credits that could take almost ten grand off an electric car.

“The incentives do help but they can’t be forever pretty soon they will have incentives to buy gas cars," said Marc Waldauer.

Others like Michael Sciola who just bought an electric Jeep, said the rebate helped seal the deal on going electric.
But with the rebates you get back from the manufacturer, dealer incentives plus the tax rebate made it equal and actually a little cheaper than the gas version for me.

Electric cars occupy 7.6 percent of the car market heading into 2024. Jerry Cole made the switch to electric but wants interested buyers to be aware of the lack of range electric cars have in the cold winter months.
Be prepared to charge way more often in the winter time because your range is going to be cut down by forty percent.

Bill Boyd is happy with “going green” for the environment but, is concerned by the effect that used batteries will have on the environment.
I have a concern about what we are healing from some of the environmental sides, extracting the minerals producing the minerals, producing the batteries and what happens to the batteries long term I think we have a long way to go yet.

Car manufacturers are going further into electric cars as you see an increase in the amount of those EVs at the auto show every year and on the road.

General Motors' goal in 2023 was to make 50,000 EVs in the first half of the year and for the second half double that and make it 100,000 units. The company is also planning to go full electric by 2035.