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Cadillac Cancels ELR Plug-In, Prius Models Next?

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How quickly things can change. Once the darlings of the auto industry, recent auto show debuts and previews of high-mileage hybrid and plug-in electric cars are being met with a collective yawn in the wake of cheap (and getting cheaper) gasoline.

Green car sales were down by around 16 percent last year and can be expected to drop even further through 2016 unless fuel prices suddenly soar. Expect to see casualties among some of the niche players in what could come to be an incredibly shrinking car segment, California-mandated models not withstanding.

Yesterday, Cadillac President Johan de Nysschen confirmed that the ELR extended range electric coupe will not live to see a second generation. The car could stick around until 2018, but we expect it could be dropped sooner if sales continue to swoon. A surprisingly stylish EV, the ELR reached dealerships at what looked to be the right time, back in late 2013 when gasoline prices took a far larger bite out of motorists’ budgets.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimgorzelany/2016/02/02/caddy-cancels-elr-plug-in-prius-models-next/#249a79dcba29

Obamacare ‘Cadillac Tax’ Threatens Millions of Tax-Free Health Savings Accounts

The tax may be one of the first items to cross a new president’s desk after he or she takes office in 2017, and already, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has promised to kill the tax. Frontrunner Hillary Clinton has said she is open to changing it, telling the American Federation of Teachers she is worried “that it may create an incentive to substantially lower the value of the benefits package and shift more and more costs to consumers.”