6 Ways to Make Electric Vehicles Affordable for the Rest of Us

31 May 2022 | Abstracted from Inverse

Author Tamara Sheldon's research has shown that most of [US gov't] tax credits, as well as state subsidies, are paid out to consumers who would have bought the EV even without the extra benefit. And often, they go to people who treat them as additional cars rather than replacements for gas guzzlers, or who don't drive them often enough to make the gas savings outweigh the environmental cost of making the car in the first place.

"This is a waste of government money."

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