So after just 4 short months of ownership I sold my 2020 Bolt EV Premier back to GM. I don’t believe that specific Bolt was the best purchase I could have made, so I was glad to have a do-over, but I was not excited to be in the market again. Things had certainly not improved since the last time. When I purchased the Bolt in July 2021, the used car market was wildly overpriced, but the crunch hadn’t really hit the new cars I was looking at. But in the six months or so since, that changed drastically. Just about every new car model was getting harder and harder to come by. You could forget about looking for deals; with almost every dealer adding thousands of dollars in vague, mandatory extras, or just an overt markup, you were lucky just to pay MSRP. And with the Bolt being off the table for the time being I had even less affordable options to choose from. Given this fact I was not so quick to write off the tax credit this time. I had to hire a CPA for other reasons, so I felt more comfortable navigating it. What resulted was a combination of me revisiting some old options I’d written off, finding a new option, and fooling myself into considering some cars that financially weren’t real options for me.