I'm only buying Toyota because it didn't get sucked into the stupid EV craze. They have common sense. The U.S. doesn't even have the electrical grid to currently manage many parts of the U.S., especially California. How tf are we going to introduce a product that will require electricity, straining the electrical grid further beyond its capacity? It's fkin nonsense.

Not to mention.. the number of EVs (Teslas) that were having battery failures during the Winter in the midwest. And this last Winter was mild.

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Nobody is going to upgrade the grid, if there is no prospect of increased demand.

I've noticed that media tend to bitch equally about both surplus and shortage of certain commodities. Expensive power? Horrible! Cheap power? Catastrophe! That way the world seems even more depressing than it really is.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

That’s just the media doing its thing. Information content is a byproduct of making money. Actually, educating the public isn’t strictly necessary, because you can also manipulate emotions to attract attention and clicks.

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