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Hm, sorry if I missed a section. It seems to be only about trading in old cars for a credit toward a new one. I was suggesting paying people to retrofit existing vehicles to be EVs.
Currently, that's more expensive than buying a brand new car
I believe it. All the retrofits I've seen seem to be highly custom and/or for classic cars. If someone developed a standard procedure for converting Honda Civics for example, I thought there could be savings and it would make a decent impact since they're so common.
I also think some people would be more receptive to an "upgrade" rather than a full on trade-in. People can get attached to their cars for reasons other than economics.
There are companies that specialize in doing the conversion to EV. So indeed the gov rebate could theoretically be to cover the cost of that. I think $6k would be sufficient budget.