It is a fair point that subsidies for the cars have often been benefiting those who could afford the expensive car anyway, but surely their idea of subsidising home and work chargers is also benefiting those with more money. The subsidies would after all be primarily going to those who own a house with enough space to put the charger (i.e. not much luck for renters or apartment owners) and those who have allocated parking at work.

What is really needed to drive uptake is both cheaper EVs (to the point where they reach price parity with regular cars) and a charging network widespread and obvious enough to give prospective buyers confidence that they can charge even on their less common routes. Significant progress has been made with this, we've come a long way from the early days where cashed up people would smugly advise buying a 90+k vehicle to save a few grand on petrol.

I think promoting electric motorcycles and scooters would be worthwhile too, they're more affordable, take up noticeably less space and resources, and still provide much of the personal transport requirements of our current road network.

You know what would really drive EV uptake... cheaper EVs.

At this point I think we need a State supplied car design book, a bit like NSW did for housing.

Like some kind of pre-approved powertrain and chassis book that smaller companies can just come along, whack a 'skin' and a badge on top and sell. Analogous to Makita/Dewalt type tool but for cars.

I just don't understand why theres all these luxury EVs coming into Australia to service the top of the market, but theres near enough no EVs making waves in the low cost car market.

you need a way to subsidize condos getting chargers in the garages.

I don't want to subsidise EVs.

The only solution to traffic is viable alternatives to driving, and dumping money onto the people who can already afford an EV is a waste of money that could be spent on better transport.