There's a public benefit to those subsidies in that it's creating a marketplace for electric cars that probably wouldn't have otherwise existed. Who buys them

There's a public benefit to those subsidies in that it's creating a marketplace for electric cars that probably wouldn't have otherwise existed. Who buys them is largely immaterial. It would be nice if the funds for the subsidy came directly from fuel-carbon taxes, but those sort of revenue earmarks are mostly for appearance's sake anyway.