You can try to rationalise these taxes with externalities but that would assume electric cars have no externalities. Between the environmental impact of manufacturing and disposing of batteries, the cost of adapting all the infrastructure to the charging need (not the least the additional demand on the electricity grid), etc.
And you can redefine a market all you want. The original poster almost certainly meant it as "winning on its own merit". Yeah a regulator can arbitrary ban a competitor and then you can claim that it is still the market because you think the market is what the regulators say the market is, but it certainly doesn't fit "winning on its own merit".
And you can redefine a market all you want. The original poster almost certainly meant it as "winning on its own merit". Yeah a regulator can arbitrary ban a competitor and then you can claim that it is still the market because you think the market is what the regulators say the market is, but it certainly doesn't fit "winning on its own merit".