I agree with the point about the government pushing them.
That’s wrong. As for subsidies, I’m on the fence. I bought
a used one. Nobody helped me finance it.
As I recall, in the 2008/09 time frame, a number of ICE
manufacturers got government money to keep them afloat.
Please keep in mind that the subsidies were allowable for
a certain number of vehicles from each company. Those are
slowly dying off.
Within three months, I’ll be charging my car fully by solar.
Unless I’m on a trip, I won’t be spending money on energy
any longer. More costly to operate? Even now as I charge
my vehicle at EV charge centers, I’m paying roughly half
what I did for energy to get me from here to there. As for
maintenance, there is hardly any.
As for dirty? Lithium is being mined. So is coal and
other things that aren’t all that clean. Gas isn’t clean.
I don’t go trashing coal and gasoline, but I think it’s
more than a little off base to go after contents of the
batteries in these cars.
Each of have phones and other devices that use lithium
batteries in them. Should we toss all those ‘dirty’
things out too?
As I said, the “subsidies” will be the heavy taxes they will put on gasoline and ICE vehicles to tip the scales in favor of EVs.