&quot;One thing the article is missing: the subsidy is explicitly limited to vehicles that cost less that 60.000€. One can say with pretty high confidence that this is done with the explicit goal of excluding Tesla&#x27;s Model S and Model X.&quot;<p>Here in Flanders (Belgium) we also subsidy electric cars and while it doesn&#x27;t exclude Tesla&#x27;s, you will get a lot less  than when you buy an electric car from another brand. And that mainly because they are cheaper.<p>I can say that with pretty high confidence it isn&#x27;t about giving the upper hand to our none existing automobile industry, but prevent burning through the subsidy at a high rate.<p>Consumers who can afford &gt;60.000€ cars are in most cases not the target group of these kind of subsidy programs.