You missed the point of the article, that governments paying rebates for electric vehicles is a pretty inefficient way of reducing emmisions, which you can find in the conclusion. The point is that governments have limited moeny to spend on emmisions reductions, and paying rebates like this is fairly ineffective. Put it towards converting coal plants, building nuclear, building solar farms, whatever...but these rebates are not a good way to spend limited money.
The other underlying issues is that electric vehicles aren't affordable to be a sustainable industry without subsidies, which should be concerning becuase the current model isn't sustainable, and isn't attainable for the vast majority of consumers. There is no such thing as an a economy electric car. They are just to expensive to build.
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