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... Which is weird, since the whole point of EV drivers is that they don't fill up on fossil fuels. However, all countries struggle with how to deal with the loss of revenue from ICE cars and the subsidizing of EVs. The simplest conclusion would be to tax ICE cars more heavily, dependent on their emission profile and fuel consumption, and no longer issue EV tax credits to lure people to buy EVs. Silly to subsidize the purchase of an electric F-150. Smaller, more lightweight electric cars don't need that big of a battery, after all an EV's costliest component. They therefore also don't require that much subsidy.

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Ralph Panhuyzen
Ralph Panhuyzen

Written by Ralph Panhuyzen

Dutchman identifying how high-tech bypasses common sense to sell us a solution that often misses the point what true progress is all about

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