> Good luck selling a car with a 50 mile range. You won't sell many. Where did you get that 50 mile range from? > Again this is false, that is not how pricing

> Good luck selling a car with a 50 mile range. You won't sell many. Where did you get that 50 mile range from? > Again this is false, that is not how pricing of goods works. You have to price your widget to sell on the market, not just to hit some hypothetical price you think it is worth. The subsidies don't let them raise prices because they are competing with other cars, not just with their own hypothetical price. When the market is balanced you might be right, but when there if higher demand than supply, which is the case at the moment, then there is no need for the suppliers to lower the prices. They can keep the subsidies in their pocket without passing it on as they cannot sell/produce enough cars anyway.