Being a tenured professor does not preclude one from being wrong or being a deeply flawed individual with an agenda. I know a tenured professor who claims/d to be the reincarnation of Socrates to their students, by way of example.
When you have ONE professor who makes an extraordinary claim based on spurious evidence, it should be a signal to as skeptical as their claims are extraordinary.
Not that I know enough about this particular person to comment beyond that, but it does appear they have a history of selling the story differently depending on their audience, which is a sign of duplicity.

Yeah, but I imagine the vast majority of these scooters are two-stroke or 4 stroke with zero emissions considerations, or are so poorly maintained that even if they were clean burning when new, have long since stopped being clean. OP's modern 1500cc scoot-scoot may consume more fuel but undoubtedly produces a tiny fraction of smog-contributing emissions compared to most scooters on the road in India.

Do you think it's at all reasonable for the installed unit cost of NEVI funded chargers to be $3.9 million per installed charger, (currently awarded funds divided by installed units), while a Tesla supercharger, by way of example, runs around $175k installed?

The difference is the Tesla charger will go into the black after a year if it's reasonably well utilized, and it will start paying for its eventual replacement and maintenance (and actually produce income) while you're still paying for the NEVI charger for another 15 years. After a while one might wonder where this 22x multiple in cost actually goes.

One can say a lot of negative things about China, but at least they are reasonably efficient with their funds, and when something better comes along the way, they tend to pivot and go with the better approach.

900 miles is probably overkill, but there are areas in the country where you'd better treat the half tank mark as empty, even with a gas car. Those places tend not have chargers. Factor in reduced performance in hot and cold in an EV, you'd do well to treat 75% as empty in those places.

It is in fact something the government has funded, and quite extensively, and of course the result is just more of the usual gift

Hey why not? Everything is digital, including price tags at the store. An entire stores worth of price tags can be updated every second, wirelessly as if by magic. No need to haul around a wheelbarrow full of paper to buy a loaf of bread, when you have a wheelbarrows worth of digits in your pocket. The only problem will be figuring out how to display increasingly exponential prices in a way laypeople will understand!

Yeah, the website for the program is not much more illuminating. Evidently it's a sort of database cache which resides in RAM?

I don't know--it's kind of like splitting vaguely defined hairs. Each program hit significant benchmarks around similar dates.

The groundwork for GPS was begun in 60s, formally a project in the early 70s, fist satellite in 78, partially usable experimentally around 85, and fully operational in the early 90s.
If anything, the "idea" for GPS predates the internet.

Yeah that guy who kept boxes of secret documents parked next to his corvette, in his office in Delaware, and at the university of Pennsylvania sure got a sweetheart judge too.

You're not wrong regarding H&R and other accounting firms, of course, but the real reason the tax code is ridiculously complex is it benefits the wealthy. When you can hire an expensive attorney (especially one whose firm helped write the tax code) to help you reduce your tax liability by millions or more... It's entirely worth it.

You act as if the money given to people is just going to disappear.
If Germany or any other country was a closed ecosystem, maybe it would eventually float into the wealthiest Germans's bank accounts once again, continuing a sort of mana from heaven like rain cycle where the aristocrats constantly make it rain on the peasantry. And knowing the Germans penchant for certain activities there's an aristocrat joke to be made here.
But like all countries, they are little more than economic zones, most of all to the ultra wealthy. As soon as there's a trade imbalance, especially to any other county not implementing communism, that economy will leak. Most of it would probably quickly go to China.

There are 84 million people in Germany. If you gave 1200 euros to each German every month, the yearly cost would be a bit under 1.3 trillion. A quick googlelydoo said that the combined wealth of the top 10% in Germany is around 7 trillion. Even if you outright confiscated 100% of assets belonging to the top 10%, this program could be funded only for five years and then it's bankrupt. That's the problem with these sort of schemes: eventually you run out of other people's money.

So, where is the money going to come from? It's going to come where all major social programs funding comes from. The people who would be beneficiaries; or it will be rolled up in ever increasing national debt which will forever never be paid down, forever causing ridiculous inflation, which is in itself a quiet tax on the very currency you hold and the assets you own.
It will count on the black line always going up exponentially, just like social security in the USA. So your government will be spurred to import forever more foreign workers since your own people are not reproducing fast enough to satisfy the grand Ponzi scheme you've inflicted upon yourselves. Never mind that the vast majority of these people will be net tax consumers and drive your country even further into the red. And now you've killed your country, erased the very identity of the people who lived there and built it up.

Germany's national debt is 2.something trillion euros. If this study was funded by taxpayers, the debt was added to the national debt in some way. Bonds were created to issue more euros, or the currency was created by the bank--however it works for euros, I'm not sure. Effectively, inflation was increased and while maybe nobody worked harder, however their cost of living may have been increased, their ability to save for a home or retirement or perhaps a vacation was made more difficult.

No such thing as a free lunch.

Yeah... And the last time that happened, an amateur Austrian painter became chancellor for totally unrelated reasons.