Accelerate the World's Transition to Sustainable Energy - to fight Anthropogenic Climate Change, page-361

Zippo

You noted that:

"As for poor people, how would implementing extra subsidies for them actually work?
What a rabbit hole that would be!"

I am confused. Are we - as a society - incapable of developing sensible policies for poor people in every area or just when it comes to EVs? In a previous post you complained that I am not thinking of all the poor people who cannot afford EVs. Now looking after them becomes a "rabbit hole"? Just a few ideas:

1.) Update building codes and legislation to make provision for EV charging compulsory for all new [social] housing projects.
2.) Target EV rebates primarily at the lowest priced EV models and taper for higher priced models (oops, I stole that idea from the NSW government.).
3.) Ensure that government EV fleets include a large portion of lower priced EV models. That way, when the vehicles enter the second hand market, they are even more affordable for the poor people. (oops, I stole that idea from the NSW government.)
4.) Introduce a rebate program for the retrofitting of EV chargers into apartment buildings that is linked to overall installation cost (i.e. only contribute to funding where the retrofit makes sense and is relatively cheap given local circumstance - in some locations the cost of retrofit might be prohibitive, while in others it might be relatively simple to do so. Start by supporting the low hanging fruit projects).
5.) Do radical things like make transit lanes available to EV drivers for a limited time, to encourage the uptake of EVs (oops, I stole that idea from the NSW government.)

Oh, or we could look for ideas to our Norwegian friends for some ideas. After all, they now see 74.7% of new car sales being EVs:



... and surprise surprise, I know that Norway is very different to Australia, but things like "free municipal parking" would be of benefit to lower income EV drivers if it was targeted at lower income councils (although, I am sure without proper audit and oversight, our politicians will find a way to sort such schemes - does not mean that the scheme is the problem though... get it?).

Most radical of all, we could merely set a 50% target for new vehicle sales being EVs by 2030, like the old Labor policy... or scrap that stupid socialist idea that destroys traits' weekends!!! No, instead, even better, just set a 52% target by 2030-31 as per the NSW EV strategy, as this policy ensures that tradies' weekends remain safe (though I must admit, i do not understand exactly how).