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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world -2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That 713 million was freely available to anyone who cared to make EVs and scale them, for the purpose of helping make them more affordable so the companies could scale, and they had just as much time as Tesla to do it once there was a wake up call with the Model S.

The government offered the money, and Tesla executed effectively to take advantage of it.

Short of this illegal trade war, there isn't really a way to not fund a specific company without putting a equal cap on everyone, such as the original 200k car 7500 USD rebate that used to exist or else it'd violate trade rules.

GM made 200k bolts for example before they dropped the ball and maxed out the US $7500 rebate.

So the best you could ever expect is something like vehicles under price xyz, and up to xxx thousand vehicles sold.

All bets are off though in a trade war.