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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.
e-Bikes and e-Scooters are already significantly cheaper than even the cheapest new car.
And yet people are still choosing to buy cars.
It’s not the price of a e-bike that is the problem; it’s that you can’t get an e-bike that can haul around a family of 4 and all their “stuff” to grandma’s two cities over in a reasonable amount of time.
You can haul a family of four around town on an e-bike (it's how I do the daycare run in the morning).
Intercity transit SHOULD be easily accessible by train, but we decided we don't do that here.
People also choose cars because of marketing, the built environment which provides them few protected spaces, societal pressures, and decision inertia.
Many multicar families could easily swap a car put with an e-bike.
And the fact that cars are the only viable way to get to grannies 2 cities over, it a terrible indicator that our infrastructure prioritizes cars/car infrastructure/car related profits, through a massive pay wallet that somewhere around 20% of the population over 16 can't even use no matter how much cash they have, and obviously the population under 16 can't use at all.