“The harms imposed by the Rivian are three times the harms imposed by the Prius, in terms of air pollution and death from accidents, but we are subsidizing the Rivian and not the Prius.” -- Stanford prof Hunt Allcott www.nytimes.com/2024/10/07/b...
The Inflation Reduction Act was a compromise between competing priorities. Evaluating the law on the effectiveness of the $7,500 tax credit for E.V.s is tricky.
So can't read article but the air pollution thing confuses me, unless they are comparing CO2 from Prius to PM25 from Rivian tires. Yes larger heavier more worse, but they are making multiple sizes and the most popular one at their last reveal was smallest model.
So big cars are worse for the environment that small cars? What’s a novel conclusion. Compare the Rivian to a Nissan Armada and it looks quite green indeed.
(build small evs in the us?)
Grrr ... electric or not, these monster trucks kill people. Ban them.
One of the authors is active here bsky.app/profile/jose...
This is complete horseshit.
Could still be good right if the counterfactual is a truck purchase?
This looks like careful work but Hunt Alcott is making a false comparison here. I don't believe that anyone buying a Rivian would have chosen a Prius instead. Arguably a Rivian substitutes for a monster ICE truck. We need to know more about the nature of demand to ascribe optimal subsides.
The Rivian is one of the smallest trucks you can buy...