There’s no creativity in motorsport running the same damn car for 10 years and have yellow flags every 5 laps or so.

I think the problem here is that you can’t actually market this thing to people who don’t know about cars. There’s no wool-pulling. It’s not like the Urus (I finally have an excuse to drive a Lambo!) or some heritage-laden tweedmobile (Careful with the Jag, darling).

Lots of car names became famous to normies for…

Japanese styling.  German reliability.  They got it backwards.

So where does the electricity come from?

1st Gear:

No way Chuck stands to make any financial gains from this. No Way!

Neutral: Let’s go even bigger—let’s have have an EV car giveaway, Oprah-style, combined with Cash for Clunkers II, a New New Deal, and hell, throw in a pony! It’s a cute press release. It has a zero percent chance of occurring.

You forgot that Orange Man Bad. Trump could find a cure for cancer and the Democrats would find some reason to complain.

They both take much more than they get.

1st\N: No and no. It’s another horrible idea built on stealing money from one group of people then giving it to another, based on their decision to buy a product. Replace “electric car” with “AR-15" and tell me if you still support the idea.

If you want to convince people to swap to electric (a.r.a. primarily coal)…

Blackouts soon to follow.

Oh look, the government wanting to spend money on things they shouldn’t be, what a surprise.

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

Come at me, Schemer. Try and pry it from my cold, dead hands.

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. 

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

Do the math. There are 153,000,000 working age people that actually work. If the plan is going to cost $454,000,000,000  (government money comes from tax-payers)...those working people are going to have to shell out roughly $3,000 to get a $3,000 rebate.  God that is a wonderful plan.

If the government is serious about actually convincing people to swap to electric power, it’s going to need something like this to get people interested.

Where is the $454B going to come from?  New taxes?

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”.