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You also need to make it realistic for people to own EVs without also owning a single-family home. My wife and I probably would have bought a PHEV, but we lived in an apartment so ... we went Hybrid instead.

As it is the EV subsidies are really just helping homeowners buy luxury cars which seems a little backwards

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This is a great point. I would have loved to buy an EV (or trade in my current gas vehicle which I don’t use all that much for an EV), but the logistical annoyances of charging it in a busy city appear to be substantial.

> As it is the EV subsidies are really just helping homeowners buy luxury cars which seems a little backwards

The goal was to drive scale so that the price would drop, this has been successful. In the US the federal subsidy phases out after 500K. Tesla and GM have both passed that and have models that are less than the US average for a new car of $40K.

Many non-tree hugger analysts project that upfront EV costs will be equal to ICE by the middle of the decade.

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