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Burning Gas Pollutes So Much, Dirty EV Battery Manufacturing Evens Out In About 2 Years
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There’s more reason to incentives than to “help people who can’t afford new”
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
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back, diesel emissions have lightened up, and epa no longer cares about the Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding and repealed it.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!
For sure, we can no longer afford the affects of our current technology and scale on the environment, especially with regard to climate change and where it impacts human health. EVs aren’t a goal in their own right, but as a much cleaner technology that lessens the impact, and we need a variety of pushes and pulls to encourage a faster transition, all of which the current administration is taking away.
While yes we need to build out infrastructure, and yes we would have preferred legacy manufacturers to survive the change, building out supply before there is demand doesn’t always work dry well. Using EV incentives help grow the market, drive demand, especially in the beginning where there is inadequate infrastructure and where manufacturers are not yet able to create comparable prices. It’s another lever to pull, and is important. Hopefully we had them long enough, but growth clearly stalled when they were prematurely ended
And yes, in my part of the US, windfarms killed by trump were important both to lower electricity costs and to clean up our impact.