EDITORIAL: Kill the EV tax credit by 2025

What role should government play in shifting consumer demand to cleaner forms of mobility?

For the past decade, federal tax credits of up to $7,500 have helped woo a miniscule percentage of U.S. buyers into the plug-in electric-vehicle (EV) fold. The tax credits were key to the Obama administration's plan to have 1 million EVs on the road by 2015. That goal wasn't achieved until 2018, when U.S. market share of EVs reached a heady 2.1%-up from 0.62% in 2013.