In hindsight, do you think federal EV incentives accomplished enough to justify their cost?

Yes (28%) – "While I think some of the net zero goals around the world are counter productive and increasing costs for no useful reason, its a fact that at some point we will need to switch to alternative power and having some pain now is worth it to make the lives of our future generations a little easier."

• "The federal EV tax incentives should not have been repealed by this short-sighted Congress and corrupt administration. Auto manufacturers need certainty at the federal regulatory level in an already competitive market."

"It takes government incentives to shape necessary industry changes that profit accumulation alone won’t make. The EV tax credit was critical to provide a transition period into a stronger EV market and increase R&D. Trumps removal of the tax credit has hurt consumers, American car manufacturers, and the climate. The ones coming out on top are the oil executives that continue to exacerbate climate change and our unsustainable reliance on fossil fuels. Our world will grow hotter and more dangerous directly because of Trumps petty decisions delaying our response to the climate crisis and disempowering sustainable alternatives."

No (42%) – "The government should not artificially influence the market by offering EV incentives as it causes an external dependency for the market. We are currently seeing the result of this after the incentives have been removed: it hurt the industry. If a product is not naturally viable or competitive, do not sponsor it."

• "The government should not subsidize the electric vehicle industry. Stay out of it! If electric vehicles are a viable choice they will be economically profitable. We are 40 trillion dollars in debt and counting, we need a balanced budget requirement in the US Constitution!"

"The federal regs and incentives were based on wishful thinking and coercion. There was no real market there and federal attempts at creating a market were misguided and wrong headed. It puzzles me that the automakers went along with it and that the huge write offs they sustained were not translated into what it cost consumers (decreased fed tax revenue, increased manufacturer costs, unemployment and related costs, etc.)."

• "When you have an initial cost of $70k to purchase most worthy EV's, that price point is only affordable for the upper echelon of consumers."

Too early to tell (19%) – "Of course the incentives didn't accomplish their purpose. They were yanked way too prematurely by this incompetent President and his administration who were and remain the beneficiaries of big buck contributions (tributes really describe it better). Had these incentives remained, we probably would be in better place."

• "They literally pulled the plug on the incentive programs. ICE vehicle adoption occurred with decades of incentives targeting the auto manufacturers and the producers of fuel."

Unsure/other (11%) – "I think they would have if we had stayed the course. But instead we pulled back away from the future towards the past, stranding all those investments. Meanwhile China continues to invest in the future with both their battery and EV manufacturing. It seems clear to me that EVs are the future and we just said "no thanks, we'll stick with the old technology that requires more maintenance as well as regular trips to a station to get more fuel, where the price will change potentially every day."