# When should electric vehicle government financial assistance stop?

**URL:** <https://community.electricforum.com/t/when-should-electric-vehicle-government-financial-assistance-stop/5409>\
**Category:** EV Small Talk\
**Created:** [October 6, 2015, 10:41am UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/when-should-electric-vehicle-government-financial-assistance-stop/5409 "2015-10-06T10:41:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Editor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/49beb7/32.png) [@Editor](https://community.electricforum.com/u/Editor)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 10:41am UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/when-should-electric-vehicle-government-financial-assistance-stop/5409/1 "2015-10-06T10:41:38Z")

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While not necessarily public knowledge, the vast majority of governments around the world have invested heavily into electric vehicles. We often see the various financial incentives targeting consumers but this is just the tip of the investment iceberg. There have been various tax breaks for corporate entities, direct investment in private companies as well as […]

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**Author:** ![Greendriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Greendriver](https://community.electricforum.com/u/Greendriver)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/when-should-electric-vehicle-government-financial-assistance-stop/5409/2 "2015-10-07T02:09:39Z")

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I saw an interesting comment on the EV Facebook page:-

“when governments stop funding the oil companies”

Makes sense?