Of course electric vehicles are being subsidised- that's the point. Drive market share at a time when market forces alone wouldn't be enough to encourage adoption. Once the user base grows and economies of scale kick in, the cars and batteries will be cheaper, and the subsidies will be removed- they won't be needed any more.
Perfectly reasonable and sensible strategy. In the end, everyone wins- the consumer gets a better, cheaper product, governments don't have to fund emerging technology any more, and car companies keep their margins. Always surprises me that this has to be explained to people on a technology forum, that often has (or used to have) a high proportion of early adopters and a forward-looking mindset.
Thing is, your average PC user doesn't face punitive taxation and road charging for having a previous generation GPU. The government doesn't tax the poor to give tax breaks to the wealthy to buy a new GPU.
The current system reminds me of the solar panel craze a few years ago. The cash rich home owners were given a subsidy to fit solar panels on the promise they would massively reduce the cost for others to get solar. Instead, the cost of fitting solar is still unaffordable for most, the subsidies have stopped even you could afford them, and now we a have situation where the already wealthy are still benefitting from cheap energy while the masses face crippling energy cost rises.
Same with EV's, most parked outside a house with solar panels on the roof, while the owner will smugly tell everyone how cheap it is to run, and how many £££'s of taxpayers money were spunked to help them get it a discount.
How many of your average Amazon warehouse workers, or a carer, or a supermarket shelf stacker get access to the kind salary sacrifice schemes, or company car schemes some on here benefit from? Not many I bet.
Most leases deals I look at become very uncompetitive if you want to drive over 15,000 miles a year. I would come close to doubling my monthly motoring costs to lease an EV, and when my car is paid for next year then the monthly running costs of a EV will be 3 or 4 times higher.