The article points out that the Federal tax incentives played a large part in driving demand for EVs. I would like to take this opportunity to lambast those tax incentives as being really dumb. They are rebates, which means that only someone wealthy benefits, and they are pretty much all targeted at luxury vehicles. The lower/middle class driver being given incentive to purchase a much cheaper hybrid would have a much more pronounced effect on reducing emissions, than subsidizing EV sport cars does.
This article also fails to discuss the C02 emission cost that goes into producing the battery, which for an EV will probably never be recouped. At least for the lifetime of that vehicle.
This article also fails to discuss the C02 emission cost that goes into producing the battery, which for an EV will probably never be recouped. At least for the lifetime of that vehicle.