The incentives could be a…

The incentives could be a mixture both to stop GHG emissions and to drive EVs. Many plug-in hybrids, however, are not worthy of high incentive support, because they do not provide enough improvement.

In the last round of changes, prospective Tesla owners were treated unfairly. There are many people who bought or would buy a Tesla Model S or X only with a higher incentive than $3000, wanting to purchase *or lease* the only long-distance EV. Targeting them all as rich folks easily capable of paying $100K+ for a car is both incorrect and unfair.

Tesla has the largest battery and therefore in an absolute sense, irrespective of price, represents the biggest vehicular move in reduction of pollution and the harms associated with it.

On other topics, the government needs to make sure that there are enough EV charging stations and that those it is subsidizing are maintained. Lastly, the point of education might well be TCO: true cost of ownership. The cost of a car isn't its sticker price but that combined with fuel, maintenance, and insurance over a number of years. In that sense---even excluding the societal cost of continuing to raid the Earth for fossil fuels and spew pollution out of their engines---EVs win easily even over cars priced somewhat lower for purchase.

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