Budget deal restores tax credits for EV charging stations, electric motorcycles, fuel-cell cars

2015 Nissan Leaf charging back at home after 1,000-mile road trip   [photo John Briggs]  Fears that Congress would kill the federal tax credit for purchase of a plug-in electric car were laid to rest in December when that incentive survived the $1.5 billion tax-cut bill. Now Congress has added back a handful of other tax credits related to electric cars and greener transportation in the $400 billion budget bill it passed in the wee...