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Burning Gas Pollutes So Much, Dirty EV Battery Manufacturing Evens Out In About 2 Years (www.jalopnik.com)
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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

There’s more reason to incentives than to “help people who can’t afford new”

  • the faster we develop an EV market, the sooner and cheaper used EVs will be available
  • the incentives get us to price parity sooner, so encourage people who don’t want to spend extra, whether they can or not
  • the faster market transition encourages investment in chargers. If you couldn’t be confident in a fast growing market why would you invest in chargers?
  • the faster market transition encourages and supports legacy manufacturers investing in new technology

EVs are inevitable, but we need to be encouraging a faster transition for environmental reasons. But the incentives were at least as much about trying to save legacy manufacturers as they were about encouraging consumers down that path.

Note that as soon as the US stopped incentives, legacy manufacturers withdrew from the EV market. Some were just reaching price parity, such as Chevy Equinox, but the few remaining choices will never have the volume to be profitable. Now they’re heavily protected, at the cost of less choice and much higher prices for all Americans, but that can’t last forever and they appear to be digging their own graves

[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

While I agree with you, roll back of regulations has also contributed. For example the hemi was going to get killed but now their coming back, diesel emissions have lightened up, and epa no longer cares about the Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding and repealed it. There has been a LOT of factors this administration has changed that made EV less appealing and shifted us back to high pollution combustion and shitty refrigerants. I'm not convinced ev subsidies are the way forward, we need better renewable infrastructure to properly fuel our EVs and i think that should be funded by our tax dollars rather than hoping that if more people have evs more private corps will build the infrastructure for it. That's like encouraging building trains without any tracks to ride on! Plus renewable infrastructure isn't just for evs, that will help make all our homes greener too!