The Automotive Troublemaker w/ Paul J Daly and Kyle Mountsier

Is The EV Tax Credit Dead?, GM’s Free Night EV Charging, On-The-Job Training Broken

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We’re almost at the end of another week, and today we’re covering how it seems that the Trump team is getting ready to eliminate the EV tax credit. Plus, GM is working with EV owners in Texas to offer free nighttime EV charging, and how on-the-job training is becoming harder to find.


Show Notes with links:


  • The Trump transition team is set to eliminate the $7,500 EV tax credit in an upcoming tax reform, a shift that could hinder the U.S.'s EV progress. Despite Tesla’s reliance on this subsidy, representatives of the company appear supportive of the repeal.
    • Killing the credit aligns with Trump’s campaign pledge to end Biden's "EV mandate."
    • Tesla, though impacted, may benefit as the change would likely harm its competitors more, especially legacy automakers like GM.
    • Energy transition discussions are led by oil magnate Harold Hamm and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum.
    • Eliminating the subsidy could free up funds to extend Trump’s major tax cuts.
    • The Alliance for Automotive Innovation stressed the importance of credits, calling them "critical to cementing the U.S. as a global leader."


  • General Motors is collaborating with Reliant Energy to offer free nighttime charging for Chevy EV owners in Texas. The initiative, aimed at making EV ownership more affordable, leverages renewable energy credits to support sustainable charging.
    • Chevy owners enrolled in Reliant’s EV plan get free charging from 11 PM to 6 AM, offset through monthly bill credits.
    • Users must specify an EV on GM Energy’s Smart Charging Portal to qualify.
    • This promotion is part of a broader trend as automakers like Ford offer perks to attract hesitant EV buyers.
    • GM and Reliant claim charging is renewable, thanks to Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), though these credits have been criticized for masking fossil fuel use.


  • In many companies, new hires and even seasoned workers are left struggling due to inadequate training. With limited mentorship and lack of clear guidance, employees are increasingly expected to "figure it out" alone.
    • High job turnover, hybrid work, and cost-cutting have weakened structured training.
    • Only 50% of Gen Z workers report having mentors, despite 83% valuing it.
    • Less than half of employees feel they fully understand their job expectations, per Gallup.
    • Tech-based training has limitations, while mentorship apps often see low engagement.
    • Kenneth Matos of HiBob warns that cutting training leaves junior employees overwhelmed and managers burnt out.

Hosts: Paul J Daly and Kyle Mountsier

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Paul J Daly:

It's Friday on November 15. Today, we're talking about killing the EV tax credit, GMs free night for EV charging and on the job training being broken. And we also have a webinar in a few hours. Yeah, the people really wanted, they stopped

Kyle Mountsier:

webinar into a that's

Paul J Daly:

it. I just, I don't like dead air.

Kyle Mountsier:

Yeah, you were like radio. Where's the drop?

Paul J Daly:

I mean, it's a great segue into the fact that we do have a webinar this afternoon at one o'clock Eastern. It's auditing your 2024 advertising performance with our friends at stream companies. Part one of a part two. It's real simple. You go to asotu.com you sign up for the web. The webinar, you show up, you heckle us live, and you figure out, Hey, these are some great tips and tricks and some perspectives how I should be auditing what just happened this year. And then part two is going to be like, how do you take that knowledge and make 2025 even better. It feels really practical to me.

Kyle Mountsier:

It's super practical, and it's great, I know. I mean, I'm excited about the webinar because I'm like, Alright, let's figure it out. Yeah, and we

Paul J Daly:

get to be with friends. Yeah, and we get to go, how

Kyle Mountsier:

do I audit this thing? Okay, no,

Paul J Daly:

I know. Hey, we're gearing up because we're gonna be wheels up. You're

Kyle Mountsier:

going to MRC actually. Oh, and MRC tomorrow morning, I'm gonna be there at the Pash event. Hit your boy up. We'll hang out. We're gonna run, maybe eat some good food, whatever you got. Look at the mercy. And then I'll whoop flip around, and we're gonna be in rich, enriching, hanging out with the CMA crew next week,

Paul J Daly:

filming, yes, filming the next episode of more than the next episode. We're filming Season Two. We did Roman. We're doing CMA. We're going to be in back in Florida. You'll be back in Florida in a few weeks. We're going to be at Bozar, like we're doing the thing now.

Kyle Mountsier:

It's a thing. See, this

Paul J Daly:

makes me we should make it a food we should make it a food show. We have been eating enough food, like trying. I'm slowly

Kyle Mountsier:

getting down with the food show. I'll, I'll

Paul J Daly:

be there. It's kind of my look.

Kyle Mountsier:

I'm great at I'm great at explaining food.

Paul J Daly:

Like, listen, everybody, he's very good at explaining food. I can say that. Like, yeah, he always like, we'll start explaining. I'm like, What the heck? That's fine. I'm good at eating food. So this is great. Kyle can do all the talking. I'll do the eating, and it'll be a great, great, uh, great partnership. Oh, that's still playing, speaking of a great partnership, playing all the things right now. All right, listen for all the people who are like, I don't know. Elon Musk, corruption, corruption. Here's the thing. Trump transition team just said that they were set to eliminate the $7,500 EV tax credit in an upcoming tax reform, a shift that basically, you're saying could hinder Evie us, Ev, prod, progress, despite Tesla's reliance on the subsidy, representatives of the company appear supportive of the repeal. Well, it's Elon's company, of course, they're going to be supportive. What are they going to do? Killing the credit alliance with Trump's campaign pledge to end Biden's EV mandate Tesla, though impacted, may benefit as the change would likely heart harm its competitors, more especially legacy automakers, like GM. Energy Transition discussions are being led by oil magnate Harold ham and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum. Eliminating the subsidy could free up the federal tax funds to extend Trump's other tax cuts, which are more across the board, our friends at the Alliance for automotive innovation stress the importance of credits, calling them critical to cementing the US as a global leader. I think Tesla stock, on the news was down like 5%

Kyle Mountsier:

Yeah, which is weird, though, because they're coming up on the end of their access to the $7,500 EV tax, right? I

Paul J Daly:

think so. Yeah,

Kyle Mountsier:

really impact them as much limited,

Paul J Daly:

right? If you didn't know that it's limited on how many credits any particular company could get, correct, right?

Kyle Mountsier:

So, like a few of these will have a longer run on would have a would have had a longer run on this. But I just don't see Tesla being impacted that much. Also, we've seen Tesla drop their prices by nine grand overnight, anyway. So it's not like they can't figure out the pricing model to get attraction. It's going to hurt the new entrance. Like, if someone started building EVs today and building them in the US, that's who would be like, wait a second, we can't get on board with that thing,

Paul J Daly:

you know, interesting, because I've been thinking, I've really been dancing around the idea of, like, getting, getting an EV, like the Daly family, like, Let's do is, like, slow, speed up, adoption, no, because now I'm like, Well, if I was gonna lease an EV, I really should do it, because I'm definitely not doing it once. It's more expensive than a combustion engine.

Kyle Mountsier:

Isn't that wild? Like TVs out could be a crazy.

Paul J Daly:

One amazing thing to do if you sell EVs right now, especially new EVs, right? Like, they just gave you a value proposition, if you were thinking about it, pull the trigger before the end of

Kyle Mountsier:

this year. That's real smart. Heard it here first. You can print that and take it to the news. Speaking of taking it to the news, like, come on. Got

Paul J Daly:

General Motors is collaborating with reliant energy to offer free night time charging for Chevy EV owners in Texas. The initiative aimed at making EV ownership more affordable leverages renewable energy credits to support the sustainable charging. Basically Chevy owners enrolled in reliance EV plan will get free charging between 11pm and 6am and that'll be offset through monthly bill credits. Users must specify an EV on GMs energy smart charging portal to qualify. So you know, obviously you have to validate that I am charging my GM EV. The promotion is part of a broader trend as automakers like Ford offer perks to attract hesitant EV buyers. Even more important, if this credit goes away, GM and reliant claim charging is renewable. Uh, thank our thanks to renewable energy certificates. Though the credits, you know, there's always someone's going to criticize it for masking fossil fuel use. They're like, Oh yeah, you're charging it, but you know, you're creating the energy with coal. So,

Kyle Mountsier:

yeah, it's, it's an interesting thing. I mean, I love any collab that just allows people to have, like, less of a walk to the cost or whatever, you know, that's, it's, that's always, the more of these things we get in the market, the more we like straddle that adoption curve drop right? Because, like, you always have a risk at as the adoption curve is growing, you have a risk at having the drop off. And, like these types of things, especially in in states like Texas that have a massive population, have the ability to, kind of like, curb the intensity of that drop off, yeah. So I think kudos also, obviously charging from 11pm to 6am that's when most people are going to be doing anyway smart, so it lights up. Yeah,

Paul J Daly:

it really does, speaking, speaking of what

Kyle Mountsier:

being smart, stop

Paul J Daly:

you. That's exciting.

Kyle Mountsier:

Many companies, new hires and even seasoned workers are left struggling due to inadequate training, limited mentorship and lack of clear guidance. Employees are increasingly expected to quote, unquote, figure it out alone. Obviously, high job turnover, hybrid work cost cutting have weakened structured training on the job. Only 50% of Gen Z workers are reporting having mentors, despite 83% saying they would value it if they had it and they want it. Less than half of employees feel they are fully understood. They're fully understanding their job expectations, per the Gallup poll, tech based training has limitations, obviously, while mentorship apps often see low engagement, so that's kind of like the the other side of the thing. KENNETH Mattos of Hi Bob warns that cutting training leaves junior employees overwhelmed and managers burnt out because you always fixing their mistakes. This

Paul J Daly:

is an age old issue, and I can't grow I can't throw any stones on this one because ASOTU Young, fast moving startup, it is very difficult to onboard and train properly, even my agency congruent. Still, we're getting way better. I feel like we have some new people coming, coming into the company, and we've, like, finally figured it out, but been around for like, a decade plus. I understand this. Gen Z workers want mentors. They want to show up. They want to do a good job. I think the auto industry has a major it's pretty okay at training, right? Because we have a lot of repetitive positions technicians, right? That's however. I think the gap that we have in the industry is really a training on brand and mentality, not tasks and duties, right? Like this is how the CRM works. This is how we I think it's this is why we do things the way we do them, and this is how we carry out the work that we're training you to do. I think there's a lot of white space there in automotive. And I think the ones who are getting it right, it's very obvious when you walk through the front doors or make a

Kyle Mountsier:

phone call, yep. Well, and I'll say, and dealerships are small businesses, right? They don't have 5000 employees floating around. Just like figuring out something what to do, it's always onto the next thing. There's always a fire to fight, there's always the next sale. And we get into that, you know, with us, startups or small companies. It's always like, what's the next thing? How do we do the next thing? And the training is almost just keep doing something instead of like, how do you grow in career growth? And so we fall, we fall victim to it too. But I agree. Like, if you can get people aligned to why you do what you do, not just how you do what you do, it will produce dividends in their ability to come alongside it and self teach the how or the what if they understand the why, because that why will drive them to do the same thing that a business owner or anybody in an executive position would do naturally. Yeah, no, knowing

Paul J Daly:

that lens that you're looking through everything is a major benefit look. We're going to be doing our webinar. We're going to teach you. We're going to train you. Go to asotu.com sign up for the webinar. Be with us live, or get the recording. We will see you there.

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