Even when it was easily proven incorrect it remained a common talking point from people opposed to EVs. Much of that opposition was for ideological/financial reasons, so facts didn’t really matter.
Most anti EV people I’ve spoken to just repeat the same old untrue things. It’s more expensive in electricity to charge it, you can’t drive it interstate, the grid can’t handle it, the electricity generated is worse than petrol emissions, the batteries are pure Evilium or something that will eradicate all life on Earth, you can’t even drive it to work because the range is bad, it will lose range and be undrivable in 5 years, etc…
None of it true of course. But the truth has never stopped a good story
Even when it was easily proven incorrect it remained a common talking point from people opposed to EVs. Much of that opposition was for ideological/financial reasons, so facts didn’t really matter.
Most anti EV people I’ve spoken to just repeat the same old untrue things. It’s more expensive in electricity to charge it, you can’t drive it interstate, the grid can’t handle it, the electricity generated is worse than petrol emissions, the batteries are pure Evilium or something that will eradicate all life on Earth, you can’t even drive it to work because the range is bad, it will lose range and be undrivable in 5 years, etc…
None of it true of course. But the truth has never stopped a good story