The average new vehicle is still hovering around $49,461, but the real affordability fight is now happening across incentives, gas prices, EV taxes, and global supply-chain rules.

Today’s episode breaks down why EV discounts are running at 13.8%, how pump anxiety is replacing range anxiety, why the UK’s proposed £200 EV road tax worries dealers, and how Senator Bernie Moreno’s China supply-chain ban could reshape what reaches U.S. showrooms.

Today's Key Headlines

~Kelley Blue Book puts the average new vehicle transaction price around $49,461

~EV incentives reach 13.8% of the average transaction price

~Benchmark crude jumps 50% as Brent nears $106 a barrel

~NFDA warns a proposed £200 annual EV road tax could slow UK adoption

~Senator Bernie Moreno pushes to block Chinese-made vehicles and connected tec ...