VIC announced 20'000 slots for a one-off $3000 subsidy for new EV purchases made for cars costing less than $70k, at $45k that's a 7% discount, not even the GST back. To mention in the same sentence that they aim for 50% of new vehicles to be electric by 2030 means they're either stupid, or equally bad at math as they are at applying the logic of deduction to environmental protection. About 30'000 new cars are sold in VIC p.a. so that subsidy scheme would pay for about 18 months worth of vehicle sales at a target of 50% market share. If it worked. Which it won't. Because it's friggen peanuts!
There's only one way this ought to be going: All taxes (LCT, GST, Stamp duty, rego) waived on EVs until some high target is reached. Otherwise this is just an anti-Tesla tax, pandering to the beer guzzling morons making up the "pub test" populace who have been fed the myth (by our sorry excuse for a human being PM no less) that all of us expensive Tesla owners are inner city wine sipping fat cats.
An alternative narrative could easily be developed now that we're no longer manufacturing cars in this country. No need to protect an inferior product any longer, is there? Make it attractive, desirable, AND affordable to own an EV.
There's only one way this ought to be going: All taxes (LCT, GST, Stamp duty, rego) waived on EVs until some high target is reached. Otherwise this is just an anti-Tesla tax, pandering to the beer guzzling morons making up the "pub test" populace who have been fed the myth (by our sorry excuse for a human being PM no less) that all of us expensive Tesla owners are inner city wine sipping fat cats.
An alternative narrative could easily be developed now that we're no longer manufacturing cars in this country. No need to protect an inferior product any longer, is there? Make it attractive, desirable, AND affordable to own an EV.
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