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Originally Posted by EffectiveSprinkles
What governments do is hardly ever related to reality. They are purely reactionary. As soon as they see they're missing out on money because of tax breaks they will remove them as soon as they can which always means sales of electric cars plummet to near zero.
If electric cars are the future they will be so because they are better than the alternatives to the user. Not before.
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I don't know where you are, but in the UK things like electric cars are driven by the government by cheap tax. When they were trying to make people move to diesel cars (oh the irony, I know), diesel cars were taxed cheaper. Now in the UK, every car is £140 a year tax (apart from the first year, which varies per vehicle), except electric cars which are free tax. That's how it's done here, and it does work - there are now a huge amount of diesel cars on the road that wouldn't have been there had it not been for cheap tax.