Yup. In Germany, it's about 30-35%. We had massive subventions here for buying an EV, up to €6750, Government (means: taxpayer) funded. Government stopped the funding, sales plunge. Nobody wants these shitty "cars", people who bought this crap just wanted to be hip and to save money. Like Harari would say: "that's over". Bye bye, electromobility.
Same in the US, we call them subsidies (so I learned a new word today, cool!). Same thing is happening with other shit, for instance PG&E (California power company) is slashing the rate they buy power back at for solar as it's now flooding the system during the day enough they don't know what to do with it, so orders for new solar are plummeting and companies laying workers off etc. Funny how this kind of thing happens ANY time the government tries to interfere in the market....
Yup. In Germany, it's about 30-35%. We had massive subventions here for buying an EV, up to €6750, Government (means: taxpayer) funded. Government stopped the funding, sales plunge. Nobody wants these shitty "cars", people who bought this crap just wanted to be hip and to save money. Like Harari would say: "that's over". Bye bye, electromobility.
Same in the US, we call them subsidies (so I learned a new word today, cool!). Same thing is happening with other shit, for instance PG&E (California power company) is slashing the rate they buy power back at for solar as it's now flooding the system during the day enough they don't know what to do with it, so orders for new solar are plummeting and companies laying workers off etc. Funny how this kind of thing happens ANY time the government tries to interfere in the market....