>I don't understand these policies Easy- it's because electric cars as a class of product aren't there yet (every company with significant EV production capaci

>I don't understand these policies Easy- it's because electric cars as a class of product aren't there yet (every company with significant EV production capacity is busy producing late-alpha-quality products except for Teslas that are early-beta). Therefore, consumers need an incentive to buy and manufacturers need an incentive to create cars that are worse in most ways in the hopes that they'll be able to fund the development of technology that would actually make EVs viable for the average consumer. As far as the politics go, the wing of the government that believes electric cars are the future spent all its money on a public health measure (the success and necessity of that is out of scope), and relevantly for France industrial inputs got more expensive because the US finally got the war on the European border they'd been trying to ignite for the past 10 years. Environmental policies are ultimately luxuries; and in a new era of austerity after 3 years of unrestrained spending it's not a surprise that subsidies are disappearing.