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Re:The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks by tenpies on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:17PM (#35350719)
> People are buying EVs because they're better.

And absurdly subsidised[1]. And I suspect this figure doesn't include the indirect subsidies, such as exemptions from certain taxes.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1332156/average-ev-finan...

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Re:The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks by lostlogin on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @11:03PM (#35351768)
Oil is heavily subsidised too. And that’s before things like dumping masses of CO2 and other nastiest into the air are factored in. It’s amazing that this can just happen and the cost externalised.

More on fossils fuels as a group, but this is disturbing. https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidie...

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