Why? The oil industry has been subsidized for decades. Why are EV cars suddenly non-deserving of subsidies when their competitor has indirectly been subsidized all this time AND their competitor is causing very real short and long term environmental and social problems?
Incorrect. The subsidies are to get people to pick EV's over fossil fuel cars. The EV industry doesn't need the subsidy, the customer does.
Once you cross a specific threshold, then you start dialing back the subsidy so certain companies (eg Tesla) are unable to dump unsold product, and companies like Chinese and Korean EV manufacturers are unable to put their garbage products next to better products and demand the same price. Before people forget, the reason for the long decline of American brands worldwide
Yes, the first sentence was somewhat misleading. The sharp sales drop was immediately after the sudden phase out of the subsidies at the end of 2023, but from there, steady growth made up for the drop within less than a year. Those subsidies are more about speeding up the conversion to EVs and making them available to people and especially families within the lower income bracket, as they are capped at a yearly household income of 80,000 EUR, and they will increase with each child living in the household. T
... Which is basically the same. EVs don't have much things built in that can burn easily, other than internal combustion engines, which have a lot of fuel on board. Without the fuel adding to the fire, cars would not burn that easily. Electricity on board is a fire hazard, yes, as can be seen with hybrids, which have an even higher risk of fires, because having high voltage lines parallel to fuel lines might not be a good idea.
Every EV is less oil to import.
Germany is fast progressing on its energy self sufficienc thx to Putin.
https://www.dnv.com/news/2025/germany-set-to-secure-energy-independence-but-narrowly-miss-climate-target/
Add to that the reduced CO2.
Why? The oil industry has been subsidized for decades. Why are EV cars suddenly non-deserving of subsidies when their competitor has indirectly been subsidized all this time AND their competitor is causing very real short and long term environmental and social problems?
Incorrect. The subsidies are to get people to pick EV's over fossil fuel cars. The EV industry doesn't need the subsidy, the customer does.
Once you cross a specific threshold, then you start dialing back the subsidy so certain companies (eg Tesla) are unable to dump unsold product, and companies like Chinese and Korean EV manufacturers are unable to put their garbage products next to better products and demand the same price. Before people forget, the reason for the long decline of American brands worldwide