There are numerous, much more budget friendly, EVs that get 80+ miles. You aren’t making any long trips in them, but that is a very rare use case for most people’s cars. Especially for most people living anywhere near the poverty line. Even then, the occasional long trip could be handled with a spouses car, a rental,…

You picked one of the most expensive EVs you could. Credits going to the <300% FPL would be going towards cars like the Leaf, which start at around 30k before incentives and discounts.

The thought would be that the rich are buying EVs because they want those EVs whether there is a tax rebate or not. If the tax rebate isn’t driving the sales, than it isn’t useful in encouraging change. So, instead of giving the rebate to people already buying the vehicles, they give a larger rebate to the bottom in…