So there’s been some media stuff about Tesla chargers going down or getting long lines in this extreme cold we’re having.
The factors there are complicated and mostly this is impacting people without charging at-home. As it happens, I’m now making a daily commute - just started in fact! And I’d like to report that my car is having no issues at all in this weather, and I haven’t even plugged it in to charge in a few days.
@TechConnectify@mas.to
It’s not a non-issue. EVs still tear up roads, drive into telephone poles, signs, fences and houses, and kill people.
Their promise was, “Well, at least they don’t burn oil.” But it turns out they can’t even do that well.
Please stop defending them and encourage people to support scalable mass transit and bicycles instead.
You may think that, “That doesn’t sell views.” but some other channels don’t agree…
@keraba@mastodon.social I’m sorry but I don’t have patience for this attitude whatsoever.
Our built world is incredibly car-centric. This is bad! I’m on record as saying that. But we’re not gonna be tearing it down any time soon, and progress on more mass transit and even bike infrastructure is frustratingly slow. Much too slow to have the impacts we need now.
I frankly find it insulting that you presume I don’t also want more mass transit and bike infrastructure.
@TechConnectify@mas.to Calm down. All I asked was that you don’t defend them.
@keraba@mastodon.social … oh right, all you asked was for me to not make content illustrating that so much of the bad press out there isn’t real.
What to you actually want, a reduction in climate emissions as fast as possible? Or should we all just keep buying gas-powered cars while our politicians twiddle their thumbs and NIMBYs do their best to block even the most meager of proposals?
@TechConnectify@mas.to First of all, you have no evidence that the story wasn’t true. Second, the difference between everyone using gas or electric is very small, especially when you consider tire and brake residue.
But you jump to the defense of the EV anyways, even making a buck off the video.
All I’m saying is that EVs don’t deserve it. Spend your time and energy on something else please.
@keraba@mastodon.social Did I suggest that story’s not true? Is this a Mastodon threading thing?
Or are you really just… extremely anti-EV?
I can’t tell, but either way - your suggestion has been noted but, I should warn you, will be ignored.
@TechConnectify@mas.to I suspect that you’re mixing up respondents. You /did/ say, “…that so much of the bad press out there isn’t real.” I never mentioned the press.
@keraba@mastodon.social What, specifically, are you telling me I should be defending against, then?
I’m so fucking confused.
@TechConnectify@mas.to I usually solve this problem by re-reading the thread and trying to figure out where I got off track; not asking someone to repeat themselves endlessly.
@keraba@mastodon.social This is quintessential black-and-white thinking at its very worst.
I need a car and will need one for the foreseeable future. Many people are in the same boat.
Getting mad at folks who advocate for harm reduction given the realities of the day as some sort of purity test is not how you win over folks. You’ll probably make some extremists happy, maybe even radicalize a few folks to your position.
But this sort of purity-testing nonsense never leads to great places.