EV Tax Credit Calculator
See why the federal EV tax credit no longer applies, and estimate your effective price from a state or utility incentive you enter yourself.
About this calculator
The federal EV tax credit -- the $7,500 new-vehicle credit under IRC Section 30D and the $4,000 used-vehicle credit under Section 25E -- was repealed by Sections 70501-70502 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Public Law 119-21, signed 2025-07-04) for any vehicle acquired after 2025-09-30. A narrow exception applies only to a written binding purchase contract with payment made on or before that date, which has no bearing on a purchase being planned now. Federal Tax Credit on this calculator is therefore fixed at $0 rather than re-implementing the old MSRP cap, income cap, and North American assembly rules as though they still governed a current purchase -- doing that would present a repealed benefit as if it were still available, which it is not.
What remains genuinely live are state and utility EV incentive programs, which vary enormously by state, program, and even specific vehicle, and have no single honest national average worth assuming. This calculator instead asks you to enter your own state's known incentive amount -- check your state energy office or utility's website -- and computes Effective Price and Savings purely from that figure plus Vehicle MSRP, since there is no federal credit left to layer on top of it.
Inputs
Results
Federal Tax Credit
$0.00
Effective Price
$42,000.00
≈ 4 years of state college
Figures current as of 2025. Source: One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Pub. L. No. 119-21, §§ 70501–70502 (signed July 4, 2025)
How to Use This Calculator
- Enter the Vehicle MSRP.
- If your state, utility, or local program offers an EV incentive, enter its dollar amount in State/Utility Incentive -- check your state energy office or utility's website, since amounts and eligibility vary widely and are not estimated here.
- Review Federal Tax Credit: it shows $0 because the federal credit was repealed for vehicles acquired after September 30, 2025.
- Compare Effective Price and Savings to see the impact of your state/utility incentive alone.
What each input means
- Vehicle MSRP
- Manufacturer's suggested retail price of the vehicle.
- State/Utility Incentive
- State and utility EV incentives vary enormously by state, program, and vehicle -- enter your own state's known rebate amount (check your state energy office or utility) rather than a national estimate.
What each result means
- Federal Tax Credit
- $0 -- the federal EV credit (IRC Sections 30D/25E) was repealed by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act for vehicles acquired after 2025-09-30.
- State/Utility Incentive
- Echoes the incentive amount you entered.
- Effective Price
- Vehicle price after your entered state/utility incentive (the federal credit no longer applies).
- Savings
- Your entered incentive as a percentage of MSRP.
How this is calculated
Worked example, using the default values
- Identify Input Parameters2 parametersVehicle MSRP = 42000, State/Utility Incentive = 0 = 2 input(s) provided
- Calculate Federal Tax CreditFederal Tax Credit0 = $0
- Calculate Effective PriceEffective Price42000 = $42,000
- Calculate Est. State CreditEst. State Credit0 = $0
Figures and sources
- Repeal of the IRC §30D and §25E federal EV tax credits for vehicles acquired after 2025-09-30 (2025) — One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Pub. L. No. 119-21, §§ 70501–70502 (signed July 4, 2025)
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why does Federal Tax Credit always show $0 no matter what I enter?
Because the federal EV tax credit (IRC Sections 30D and 25E) was repealed by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act for any vehicle acquired after September 30, 2025. There is no live federal credit path for a purchase being planned today, so this calculator shows $0 rather than reviving the old MSRP, income, and assembly-location eligibility rules as though they still applied.
Was there ever an exception that could still apply after the September 2025 deadline?
Only a narrow one: a taxpayer with a written binding purchase contract and a payment made on or before September 30, 2025 could still claim the credit when the vehicle was later placed in service. That exception is now backward-looking and has no relevance to a vehicle being purchased today, which is why it isn't modeled here.
Why doesn't the calculator estimate a typical state incentive amount for me?
State and utility EV incentive programs vary enormously -- by state, by program, and often by the specific vehicle -- so there's no single honest national average to assume the way the old federal credit had one fixed dollar figure. Entering your own state's known incentive amount, found through your state energy office or utility, gives a real number instead of an invented one.
What do Effective Price and Savings actually reflect now?
Both are calculated purely from Vehicle MSRP and whatever State/Utility Incentive you enter -- Effective Price subtracts your entered incentive from MSRP, and Savings expresses that incentive as a percentage of MSRP. Neither includes any federal credit, since none currently applies.
Are used EVs affected the same way as new EVs?
Yes. The used-EV credit under IRC Section 25E (up to $4,000) was repealed on the same September 30, 2025 timeline as the new-vehicle Section 30D credit under the same legislation, so neither the new nor the used federal EV credit currently applies to a vehicle acquired today. Leases were affected too. Many lessees benefited indirectly from the commercial clean-vehicle credit under IRC Section 45W, which the lessor claimed and passed through as a capitalised-cost reduction. That credit was repealed on the same September 30, 2025 timeline, so a new lease signed today carries no federal credit either.
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