Sure, but they’re hardly the only manufacturer for whom that’s true (e.g. Tesla) and from a consumer’s perspective they might care more about their personal budget. Moreover, if we’re going to avert trillions in annual GDP losses due to climate change subsidizing electrification seems like a good idea.

How are Tesla subsidized by the government?

You know that $7,500 tax credit people got for buying their products? That’s the most obvious one but the bigger one is the carbon regulatory credits: governments require other car manufacturers to buy credits to offset their high-pollution vehicles, and since Tesla doesn’t make any of those they can sell something like half a billion dollars of them per quarter as pure profit. This has been most of their profitability in some quarters.

> China gave BYD $3.7 billion to ‘win’ the EV race.

That amounts to $1k per vehicle, way less than EU or US subsidies.

https://electrek.co/2024/04/12/china-gave-byd-an-incredible-...