Get Thee to Sonoma: New e-Golf Selling for as Little as $4,500

The world is being encouraged to go electric and Sonoma’s latest effort might just get its residents thinking long and hard about buying an e-Golf as a unique combination of incentives could get you into the car for just $4,495.

The math works thusly:

The MSRP for a reasonably equipped 2016 e-Golf is a perfectly sensible $28,995. But it’s available with a $7,000 dealer credit ($21,995), add on the $7,500 federal tax credit ($14,495), the $2,500 state rebate ($11,995), and finally the $2,000 Sonoma Clean Power incentive and the car comes to an already measly $9,995.

But wait, as they say, there’s more! If you live in the Northern Sonoma County Air Pollution Control District, you can get an extra $3,000 off thanks a program called 3-2-1 Go Green ($6,995). Unfortunately, only about 60,000 people live there, but still. Finally, if you’re a low-income buyer, you can get another $1,500 off from Sonoma Clean Power, bringing the total for the car down to just $4,495.

And lest you think this is ridiculous (it is, but), one buyer actually bought a Nissan Leaf and managed to get $20,000 in incentives. According to insideevs.com, his monthly payment amounts to just $90 and he doesn’t have to pay for gas.

Our views on the e-Golf are well-known, but with incentives like these, we can feel ourselves turning into a lycanthropic Jim Cramer and howling “Buy! Buy! Buy!” at the moon.

[source: Inside EVs]

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