Without subsidy – Weblog

No people. He will be registered next week. I didn’t buy it for the subsidy, if I had already been eligible for it. And I wouldn’t have used it. I bought it because I have found the i3 a unique car since its arrival in 2013 and as a lover of quirkiness I was looking for a stylish replacement for the departed youngtimers.

I also bought it for the environment and for peace of mind, because I was going to the garage a little too often with the four bricks of my old life – until it literally went back and forth. But first and foremost, I think the i3 is today’s A2 and I like cars that go their own way without compromise.

That’s why the question about my advantage strategy irritates me so much. We live in a country where everyone nowadays looks first at the benefits and only then at the car. I hate that. Now that I am being addressed, I know again exactly why I do not want a subsidy; the incentive bonus is incredibly against me in a personal capacity. I am very much in favor of government support for electric driving, but very much against the way the money is distributed to people who already have it. I want it to go to people who won’t win prizes now and never, to the ordinary man and woman, the nails in the coffin of the energy transition. They can’t come. And with such a large group, it is impossible for the government to play Robin Hood in the form of say a general tax pardon.

I say it one more time; the cheapest EV in the Netherlands, the Dacia Spring, costs €18,000. He’s tight in the back. According to the Euro NCAP, he is life-threatening; zero stars. The battery pack is the absolute bottom with 22 kWh and a fast charger is not included. That has nothing to do with an average family with children. It can’t charge it at home from three storeys, and it certainly doesn’t have a sunbathing lawn on the roof that can do that for free. It is not possible to go to France normally with the Romanian. It cannot pay him even after deduction of €3,350 state allowance. Also €15,000 is ten grand too much for people who park their rusty elderly Corsas and Cuores for the last social rental homes in Amsterdam-North between the Teslas of highly educated people in their thirties who come to rebuild their familiar neighborhood.

Why don’t policy makers see that? Because with their LinkedIn mentality they think they can solve anything. Perhaps also, because they have too much of it themselves and find it hard to imagine behind the wheel of their leased Teslas how needy a significant part of this statistically rich country is. That they do nothing about it is because investing in ordinary people is a bottomless pit. You never earn them back. The wealthy do. They went on to buy even more expensive houses from their additional tax benefit, have a harder career, earn even more and pay even more income tax – they consumed the balance sheet completely at break-even. That is how it works. And if they buy a plug-in car privately out of their back pocket, they pick up an average monthly salary from the state rack for free. I don’t think it’s possible.

You could praise in the subsidy scheme 2022 that only EVs with a list value of up to €45,000 are eligible. Theoretically, the government is making a gesture towards non-top earners who want to take the step. But again I don’t understand the decision to discount buyers of second-hand EVs with a lower amount from a much smaller pot. It is precisely there that you should push extra with higher subsidies. I know; then you run the risk that dealers will increase their second-hand prices and the state will not subsidize the customer but the trade. But something has to be done, otherwise part of the population will miss the boat, and then the car will become yet another pain file in an increasingly untreatable inequality issue.