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Trump’s Executive Order to End E.V. Subsidies Draws Pushback (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago

Tesla got billions in subsidies to get started. Now that they are established, Musk wants to make sure no competitor can get started.

[–] jayk 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

how does the co-president feel about this?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Whose idea do you think it was? Elon got to take advantage of the program to get established and now no one can. Classic ladder pull

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Musk doesn’t want the subsidies. He argues legacy OEMs are only competitive with his EVs with the subsidies, so he’ll be able to sell more without the subsidies than he does now.

We do see lagging Tesla sales year over year, so there is probably some truth to this argument

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Now that no EVs get subsidies they'll have to compete directly with ICE cars which is going to be tricky in the US I think.

I'm going to be very surprised if tesla sales won't suffer in the US. Maybe not as much as legacy OEM EVs though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Tesla sales should start suffering in Europe too. We have many other EVs to choose from and recently, BYD has even become an option. Price and quality wise I would expect it to compete with Tesla while the German brands make slightly nicer vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh definitely. I bought an electric vehicle last year and I sure as shit didn't go for a tesla.