Some issue here;
The first one, a single battery for an EV creates as much pollution as 5 years of ICE use on the road. Now I'm all for clean energy, but if the cure is worse than the problem I'll pass.
I get that the subsidies were intended to use tax payer funding to drive EV development and adoption. But if the plan worked, and there are certainly a lot of EVs out there today, then maybe the plan worked and it's time to cut that incentive, mission accomplished, good job.
And there is nothing wrong with asking EV owners to help foot the bill for roadway upkeep is there?
BTW: I am looking up that first comment myself to see if I am off the reservation or not, a friend gave that to me, I need to allow that he might be mistaken.
2 angles on this;
1st https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017...lectric-cars-carbon-sustainable-power-energy/
2nd https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electric-cars-are-not-necessarily-clean/
If you ask me, this technology is simply not there yet. We are rushing to adopt a technology on a global scale that is simple not currently better, and in fact, will likely cause more harm than good.
Where are you getting that a single battery creates as much polution as 5 years of ICE on the road? Do you mean the full battery array for the car? That I could believe, but tesla uses 5-7,000 small 18650 lipo batteries. I cannot believe it takes the equivalent of 5 years of ICE pollution to create 1 flashlight size lipo battery.