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Originally Posted by swagon
Current success of PHEVs & BEVs is mostly driven by huge government incentives in the form of lower taxes and/or straight up 'cash on the hood.' And Western governments are pushing their local legacy car manufacturers into BEV production because of their sustainable politics. Further, they don't want China to keep producing the vast majority of EV components (i.e., batteries), but shhh. And, lastly, the biggest secret of all is that in the long-term, BEVs are just going to be cheaper to produce than ICE cars, so there are huge financial savings to be had under the premise that they're all doing it to be more sustainable and eco-friendly. 
There's a huge inequality in EV take rate across the globe and across the automotive industry. So far, they (passenger EVs) are just toys for the very wealthy part of the population.
People and companies will want BEVs a lot more once they see that the overall ownership costs are equal to or better than of their ICE counterpart. Cars are just a form of transportation for most; they couldn't care less that their new EV Ford Fiesta or Transit van does 0-60 three seconds faster or whatever. |
Don't forget Murky Musk who built Tesla entirely on government incentives (primarily driven and taken advantage of in the state of California) and later double subsidized by the Federal Govt.
When it came to paying taxes, Murky Musk bounced to Texas to avoid paying taxes in the state that built him and still refuses to pay his current federal dues.
There is a ton of politics at play with EVs and the way we are currently going about them is simply not right... and almost entirely propaganda driven.
This is before we ever even get into the discussion of where power from these cars comes from or is generated... or before we even get into how harmful battery disposal... or here is the big one... that there is not enough raw materials on the Earth to produce electric cars at the level of ICE cars at this present time.