>This paper reads more like it's designed to foment support around removing electric car subsidies rather than accurately measure their impact. Hit the nail on

>This paper reads more like it's designed to foment support around removing electric car subsidies rather than accurately measure their impact. Hit the nail on the head. The choice of question is telling. "Where should electric cars be taxed based on pollution?" implies that it is electric cars that should be taxed, not the pollution itself. But economics by side-effect rarely leads to a good outcome. For beautiful economic optimality, tax pollution directly at the power plant, the gas pump, and the polluting refinery/mine/whatever. https://www.aeaweb.org/annual_mtg_papers/2008/2008_90.pdf https://www.aeaweb.org/annual_mtg_papers/2008/2008_90.pdf