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YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation::When it comes to articles on a website like CleanTechnica, there are two kinds of articles. First, there are the ... [continued]

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[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Some of the criticism is perfectly valid, frankly. I'm hyped for EVs but there's a lot of work to be done before they're really competitive. Glossing over glaring issues isn't doing anyone any favors.

Aging wheels did a great video on the charging station problem. He drove a Polaris and a Tesla on the same route and demonstrated really well how unreliable charging stations are, unless you have a Tesla. This guy loves electric cars and has been reluctant to actually recommend any.

That problem is going to be addressed as American manufacturers adopt Tesla as a standard, but that won't happen for two model years at least.

And in the long run, they won't address climate change in any meaningful way either. We've just exchanged one resource disaster for another, and there's far less rare earth minerals than there is oil. And we'll still need oil. The only way we're doing that is by massively overhauling every city and going away from any individualized transportation larger than a bike.

[-] vagrantprodigy@lemmy.whynotdrs.org 3 points 11 months ago

He chose a fairly slow charging CCS car vs a Tesla. That video was super slanted.

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Half the stations he stopped at with the polestar didn't work properly. That's not slant, it's bad stations.

[-] HaoBianTai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago

This thread and Lemmy as a whole is filled with EV zealots. Don't bother. I'm a fan of the tech but mention anything slightly critical of the state of EVs today or the viability or sustainability of the current EV strategy from a country or auto maker and you get flooded with downvotes and called an oil shill.

Even this article is a bit slanted. CNBC running a story about EV stock piling up is not anti-EV propaganda. It's a literal fact, not to mention CNBC's cable programming has been shilling Tesla and luxury EV makers for years.

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