No, for crying out loud, killing EV subsidies will not help Tesla. Many have said that Musk’s support of ending EV credits will somehow help Tesla against the competition. Tesla’s competition is gas cars, not other EVs. Sometimes, a dumb idea is just a dumb idea.
Source: mafco
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I thought Tesla is now too big for subsidies, whereas companies with less EV sales can still get them. So, it does promote other EV sales over Tesla.
So, removing subsidies does help Tesla.
This is just factually incorrect. Tesla competes against all auto makers. As more companies get into the EV game, they need the same subsidies that propped tesla up so they can get to a level playing field. Tesla is basically killing the competition of EVs in the womb and hoping as ICE is phased out more and more, they’ll be the main provider left.
And that’s just their auto side. When they start pushing this more on the software and battery side… it’ll be obvious