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Comment by kylecordes

The migration to electric vehicles will happen, and must happen, over a couple of decades - and likely more time after that for heavy-duty use cases. And that assumes a lot of infrastructure investment along the way. Trying to go faster will generate needless and extensive backlash, cost a lot of money, and lead to a lot of unsatisfactory experiences.

Somewhere along the adoption curve, electric vehicles will be cheaper than gas, and they are already (in many ways, though not range!) better than gas.

Therefore, even though subsidies were instrumental in getting electric off the ground a decade ago, it makes no sense to further subsidize at this time. If there is an irresistible urge to spend more money, spend it on infrastructure.

parent kylecordes 4 years ago

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