Quote: These certifications, which are legally binding on the disposal facility, include a certification that the CARS trade-in vehicle will be crushed or shredded onsite within 180 days of receipt of the vehicle, that all toxic or hazardous components will be removed and properly disposed of prior to crushing or shredding, and that the vehicle will not be transferred to any other disposal facility before it is crushed or shredded.

Dealer must: Obtain a sworn affidavit from a disposal facility that it has crushed or
shredded the vehicle, including the engine block, and provide supporting documents
sufficient to establish that fact.

CORRECTION:
I stand corrected here and now tho… looking thru the small print, on page 51 of the 136 page document, it DOES state that: During the six-month period prior to the required crushing or shredding of the trade-in vehicle, the disposal facility may sell any parts of the vehicle other than the engine block or drive train.

MY APOLOGIES FOR THE MISINFORMAITON: Learned something new today
We were going by the top paragraph, which is the certification given to the dismantlers that states it must be crushed or shredded etc….. There is NO mention in the dismantlers certification papers that parts may be taken!!!
Therein lies the confusion!

The logic in destroying the engine is that it’s the inefficient part, but wasting other parts is just stupid; they’re not necessarily ineffecient.

As to the comment about new vs used, as has been pointed out before, consider that the $4500 is about what you lose in driving a new car off the lot. So the government subsidy makes it about equivalent to buy a new vs used car in terms of cost to you, if you’re already in need of buying a car. Whether it’s a good idea to use our tax dollars this way, however, I don’t claim to be wise enough to understand. Economics is complicated on the macro level.

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