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How We Can Alleviate A Key EV Fear

April 16, 2024 admin 0 Comments clean transport, Electric vehicles, ev road trips, fud

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:40:35 +0000

In a recent AP article about Ford’s delayed second-gen electric pickup truck, one key problem for US EV adoption was brought up: “Industry analysts say most early technology adopters and people who want to cut emissions have already purchased EVs. Automakers now have to convince skeptical mainstream buyers to go … [continued]

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5 Signs To Spot Anti-Cleantech Propaganda From Seemingly Innocuous Sources

March 14, 2024 admin Fossil Fuels, fud, Media, wind energy

Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:47:46 +0000

It’s an election year, so, well, everything must be viewed skeptically. So it was that recently an ad popped up purporting to stand up for free speech, which, according to the ad, knows no political colors. Hm. Cool. Seems innocuous. What could possibly go wrong, right? I checked out their … [continued]

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EVs vs. Hybrids: No Contest

May 18, 2023 admin clean transport, Electric vehicles, ev batteries, ev charging, ev fud, ev sales, Florida, fud, policy & politics, rick scott

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 02:01:08 +0000

While some hybrids are very efficient, the best electric cars deliver significantly greater emission reductions. Once chargers become ubiquitous, hybrids will fade into memories.

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FUD Alert: Weight Of Electric Cars Will Cause Parking Garages To Fall Down

April 13, 2023 admin cars, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, fud

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 19:05:28 +0000

For some people, electric cars are to be feared and so they make up the most outrageous lies about them to scare people away from them.

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Apparently We Need To Talk About Evacuations & EVs (Part 2)

September 30, 2022 admin clean transport, climate change, disaster, Electric vehicles, Florida, fud, hurricanes

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 21:00:50 +0000

Continued from Part 1… Would Charging Time Kill You? Another common lie about EVs is that they’d take forever to escape the danger zone because they don’t go very far and take 8+ hours to charge. This has led to idiotic posts saying that it would take a week to get out of Florida in […]

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Apparently We Need To Talk About Evacuations & EVs (Again)

September 30, 2022 admin clean transport, climate change, disaster, Electric vehicles, Florida, fud, hurricanes

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 20:47:44 +0000

It seems like every time there’s a natural disaster or severe storm that involves cars, the anti-EV FUD comes out in force on social media and conservative traditional media. Hurricanes knock out power, and therefore EVs are useless for evacuation. Some people got stuck in a snow storm on the highway, and you’d freeze to […]

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Electric Cars, EV Charging, The Grid, Technology, & The Future

September 28, 2022 admin cars, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, fud, grid, vehicle to grid

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 13:30:17 +0000

Electric cars are not a danger to the electrical grid. In fact, they may provide essential services that stabilize it.

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Electric Vehicles Don’t Break The Grid, And They Can Help Boost It

August 28, 2022 admin Australia, clean transport, electric car myths, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev fud, ev myths, fud, grid, Smart Grid, vehicle to grid

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 03:50:50 +0000

“If everyone came home at the end of the day and plugged in their electric car to charge, the grid would fail. We will all end up having to live like the Amish. Electric car drivers are just virtue signaling hypocrites as long as there is [insert any number here] fossil fuels powering the grid. […]