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"Electric vehicle incentives"
Only cars.
E-bike/micromobility incentives would go WAY farther than anything for cars. The $5000 incentive for one car could outright buy 2-3 ebikes what would have a bigger impact. Alternatively, $500 per e-bike would be ~25% the cost and be able to subsidize 10 times the number of vehicles.
It's maddening to know that we have no e-bike/e-scooter incentives in Canada, but we'll gladly give people a $5000 rebate to buy an expensive car they don't need.
A car that will cost society far more than it will ever give back.
Let's say that this rebate was for a free e-bike or e-scooter up to $2000 (this is expensive, but we'll go with that), $72 million would pay for 36,000 of them!!!!!!!!!!
Could you imagine the societal benefit of having 36,000 fewer cars/SUVs on the road?
Not to mention the hundreds of millions saved on infrastructure costs.
Just so goddamn infuriating to know that we have a better way to improve everyone's lives, but we have to give it up to car companies.
See, where this falls apart is in believing that someone buying a new SUV would buy a scooter instead, if only it was cheaper. Most of them do not want a scooter, or a bicycle, even if it propels itself.
You can't make someone buy asperagus if what they're looking for is chocolate chip cookies.
I disagree, because nearly every cyclist I've ever met are also drivers, and they'd rather bike around the community for errands or to commute, than drive. We nearly all started as drivers first.
But still, e-mobility rebate programs are wildly popular when they are offered.
At the very least, e-mobility rebates make transportation more equitable and accessible, but at a fraction of the cost of subsidizing more cars.
But I do stand corrected. It seems that B.C and the Yukon have offered e-bike rebates in the past.
The one in the Yukon was really popular, and did get people to switch from cars to bikes.