I guess you mean the cost to the environment to manufacture large HEPA filters and the government subsidies to Tesla.
In my mind the environmental cost of adding the feature is trivial compared to adding a gimmick to get rich people who like gadgets to purchase electric cars so that we can:
1. Use the high-end of the market to fuel the production of cheaper electric cars on the medium-low end
If the Tesla is for rich people I find it immoral to provide subsidies to it under any pretext. Helping conventional cars be more environment friendly might help poor people more.
Affordable electric cars are the end goal. The government is making an investment to get a beneficial market started. In the long run, this investment will likely have done considerably more good than if that money had been spent to increase direct aid to the poor.
I guess you mean the cost to the environment to manufacture large HEPA filters and the government subsidies to Tesla.
In my mind the environmental cost of adding the feature is trivial compared to adding a gimmick to get rich people who like gadgets to purchase electric cars so that we can:
1. Use the high-end of the market to fuel the production of cheaper electric cars on the medium-low end
2. Ween ourselves off of fossil fuels