“I’d wager that if they took away the right for these things to use the carpool lane and the rebate subsidies, that their sales would drop off like a rock”
The full $7500 Fed. Tesla subsidy will be gone this year The subsidy will go to $3750 for the first half of 2019, then $1875 the second half of 2019. Tesla burned through the 200,000 car subsidy allotment on there most expensive models which their rich customers would have bought regardless.
There are still also significant State subsidies as well in California, where nearly half of the sales occur.