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Mandating production of something people don't want does not make people buy it, that's true.

But mandating production does make research happen, which drives prices down on the thing you want, and makes it closer to marketable.

And mandating sales means that the company has to discount it until demand gets high enough. As long as it's still worth it to them overall to do business in the state, that works just fine in the market.

This is subsidizing, it's just making the car companies pay for it more directly than a tax.

But it works about the same as a tax on non-electric cars that pays for electric car incentives.



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