Want Some Disinformation on Electric Vehicles? Look No Further.
Here’s a meme that makes an absurd claim, but readers are eating it up, with comments including:
• No water, no electricity, empty store shelves. Way to go turn us into a third world country.
• Keep those electric cars charges (sic) if your (sic) lucky!
• How am I supposed to charge my electric car – oh wait never mind I still have a gasoline powered vehicle(s).
• Good thing we have all these electric cars and a war on fossil fuels to keep us powered up! FJB and his administration.
• Yessir, right when we all plug our electric cars in to charge!
Well, let’s look at a few facts, if that’s not too great an inconvenience.
The U.S. grid reliability is over 99%. In 2020, this figure hit 99.91% (on average, eight hours downtime during the year). The few outages we experience are either due to planned maintenance or thunderstorms. Except in rare situations, neither materially impacts EV use. Most Americans have an intuitive understanding of this; after all, we live here, and we immediately see that this 2/3 figure couldn’t possibly be true.
OK, since this is completely wrong, we then know that it didn’t come from the Wall Street Journal or any other credible news source. Even Fox News would not present utter bullshit like this. This is QAnon / Alex Jones stuff, geared to the most intellectually impaired people in this sad nation.
People who are looking for total crap that conforms with their hate and ignorance can always find something (like this) online; there are no exceptions of which I’m aware. Hillary Clinton running a child porn ring? No problem.
This is one of the key reasons this country is in its current pathetic condition.
