I'm still curious why they're not eligible for the whole $7,500. They build both the car and the batteries in Tennessee.
Maybe the mineral supply chain goes to some not-approved places. I don't know. They don't provide that info in the Nissan presser.
I did send an email to the EV press contact at Nissan several weeks ago asking if they were gonna get their tax credit back or if I should be looking at VW if I wanted to spend my money on a Tennessee-built, tax credit-eligible EV. No response. But then, this week, they published this press release.