, the company finds basically every EV-negative headline they could find for the last several years, and then interviews an automotive journalist who owns two older EVs. The conclusion? EVs are a failure.When it comes to media honesty, there are two ways to get it wrong. The obvious way to be dishonest is to present information that you know is incorrect. People make mistakes , but you can retract and apologize when you get things wrong.
But, every sandwich must have another slice of bread to keep the meat and cheese or peanut butter and jelly inside and off your fingers. So, the video then goes to another montage of bad EV story clippings from recent times.. After this piece of bread, they go back to more “meat.” David says that California’s EV charging infrastructure is better than the rest of the country. This is somewhat true, but at the same time, nobody’s making infrastructure with a 20-mile EV in mind.
At the time, there were only a small number of rapid chargers in the largest cities for the LEAF to use. So, people only used them for commuting and had a second ICE vehicle they’d use for long-distance driving. They’d charge the vehicle up at home, drive to work and back, and charge it again.