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[-] londos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Currently, that's more expensive than buying a brand new car

[-] londos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] activistPnk@slrpnk.net 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

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