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Michigan Dems OK $3M for e-bike discounts. GOP says plan is off the rails | Bridge Michigan
Michiganders could take hundreds of dollars off a new e-bike purchase price under a House budget championed by Democrats but panned by Republicans.
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LANSING — A proposed electric bicycle incentive program that could dramatically cut prices through income-based “discount vouchers” received nearly $3 million in funding in a budget plan approved by the Michigan House Wednesday.
The provision, part of a larger $81 billion state budget proposal, was championed by Democrats as a "future-facing" push for new mobility options but panned by Republicans as “wasteful spending.”
Well, EV bikes are a lot cheaper than subsiding Elon Musk's hobby cars for rich people, anyway. But we know the e bikes will suddenly double and triple in price.
Whats the subsidy on Teslas now? $25 K? You can buy outright over 20 decent ebikes for that. $3 mil would buy around 2,400 e bikes versus maybe 30 Teslas.
Probably won't pass so no need to get all whiney n stuff.