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Originally Posted by Martinjlm
None of this affects purchase decisions people make today. People are not buying 2023 MY vehicles factoring in what may or may not happen in 2035. But people are buying enough EVs in 2023 that two of them are in the top 10 list of vehicles purchased. Some (not all) are getting incentives, but incentives are different than being “forced” to buy. Carrot or stick. Incentive is the carrot. Forcing is the stick. I see no sticks motivating buyers to purchase EV in 2023.
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The stick portion is used at both the purchaser and manufacturer level. At the purchaser level you have gas guzzler taxes, fuel taxes, emissions tests, a plethora of ways that the government charges the consumer for using an ICE vehicle. At the manufacturer level you have ever increasing fuel efficiency standards. I believe the new light to medium duty standards are set to escalate so high that by 2027 or 2028 it will be impractical to manufacture and sell ICE vehicles. There's no need to make people buy BEV if you eliminate everything else.