[ben_w]

Governments don't need to "scam" people for money, and only the exceptionally useless ones attempt to "steal from people", stealing from people is corruption, not taxation, they have direct power to take whatever they want whenever they deem necessary and spend it however they want (modulo constitutional rules). Note that I'm not denying the existence of corruption here, that would be a much stronger claim, but you'd have to make a case that somehow the corruption is focussed on promoting a new novel kind of vehicle and rather than all the existing ones which have support from the existing stakeholders in manufacturing and fuel supply and presumably more cash for bribes and stuff.

Even if governments were as your rhetoric says, they have no specific desire for electricity prices to be "through the roof", as energy in general is foundational to industrial performance in the same way food is foundational to human performance. This is why gulf states, which are extremely un-democratic, set fixed (and low) fuel prices in the 1960s and only reformed their subsidies rather than removing them entirely in the 2010s.

> We're already at a point, in some EU countries, where superchargers on the highways cost more money than a gasoline car for the same mileage.

I think that says more about the superchargers than the governments.