The great EV pullback has begun (The Verge)

[haele]

45. Yes and the student loan for the totally unnecessary degree I was required to get to keep my job..

Is still a debt I'm paying off. Likewise, the Pell Grants for that degree will be paid by my Grandchildren. There is a benefit to that useless degree beyond the degree itself.
For reasons you might consider valid or not.
For example, an EV subsidy is similar to a Pell Grant.
It's a publicly paid for personal investment to purchase low carbon emissions vehicle use that eventually could impact the wellbeing of the General Public.
Likewise, an 18 year old using a Pell Grant for a Cisco Certificate, Culinary School, Auto Bodywork, or Cosmetology might be argued to be a personal investment that is not necessary for the general taxpayer to burden, even though any of these training programs may end up being the difference to that individual between a regular career or a life of short term dead end minimum wage jobs separated by periods on the public dole just to survive.

Is the argument about Federal subsidies in general, or subsidies in something that that doesn't seem beneficial to the Public/Taxpayer interest, for whatever reason?

If the latter is the case, let's start with Fossil Fuel, Resource Extraction, and Big Agriculture subsidies...then maybe Greenfield's/Market Investment Subsidies...they cost the average taxpayer far, far more than piddly $5300 or $7k subsidies that less than 2% of the population might apply for on a one-time basis in a year.