“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it.”
-H.L. Mencken.

No, it will cost $4000 in more taxes. Gotta pay for all that extra bureaucracy.

yeah 2011 cars are total garbage that are barely still on the road.

You missed 1 key item in your math problem, not all 153m of us will be able to claim a $3k tax rebate, so really we’ll all get to pay $3k for some, very small percentage of us to get a $3k rebate after spending an additional $30-100k. 

The US Federal Government, in cooperation with the Federal Reserve, is pleased to announce another round of corporate lottery winners, cherry picked from the biggest donor list of friends whose companies need no welfare but dammit they’ll get it anyway, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars each!

“Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.” - Frédéric Bastiat

“The old ICE cars will then be scrapped.”

“The plan would be key to reducing the impact of climate change enriching those with influence over the government.”

Neutral: When you consider the environmental impact of manufacturing the original ICE car, scrapping a perfectly good running OBD2 car, and then manufacturing another car to replace it, this program has nothing to do with “saving the environment”.

454 billion? Can we fix the roads and schools first.

For each of those, that is less than an average month’s worth of sales. If they actually advertised those cars and got their dealerships to bother to learn anything about them, they would have no issue selling more.

EV sales are largely low due to; lack of effort on the part of dealerships, lack of advertising, and lack of production. 

I’m in the same boat but even worse. I have a car that’s paid for and gets about 50MPG (4.4l/km). It’s getting up there in mileage but will become my daughter’s car next year.

I guess I’m saying the same thing but using gas only instead of electricity only. Echo and prius were both on my short list. I would up with the echo, primarily because it was cheaper and I know how to work on it.

Here’s my thing with that 1% scenario. What do I do in that situation? Do I plan the route to a compatible charger for an hour stop for every 3 hours of driving (for close to full charge.)? Do I pay$2k for 4+ plane tickets? Do I pay a few hundred dollars for a rental? These extra expenses are on top of the ~25% more…

It’s a perfect case for the occasional rental, and electric owners probably still come out ahead financially. It makes logical sense, but buyers are emotional. The emotions associated with needing to rent a car because $50-60k one you just bought cant make the trip doesn’t sit well for a lot of people.

fuel savings would take a long time to pay off compared to my current commuter car which gets 5.5L/100km.

That's because the plans for Lordstown centered on handing off the plant to an unknown third party with questionable backing to produce a mystery electric pickup. Not exactly the salvation it was portrayed as...

It’s crazy that Toyota, for example, doesn’t make an EV in 2019.

Yeah, people don’t seem very good with math and fuel economy from what I’ve seen. Even if you assume that your electricity is free for the ease of calculation and use a reasonable average of 12,000 miles a year at 30 mpg and $3.00 a gallon gas, that’s $1200 a year in gas. If your EV costs $10k more than a gas car then…