The paper entitled ‘Distributional concerns and public opinion: EV subsidies in the U.S. and Japan’ explores whether perceptions about distributive inequity shape public support for energy transition policies. It finds that the public favors EV subsidies for all buyers and cars and that distributional discourses do not affect the public.
You can read it here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112883