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by colordrops 1284 days ago
Do you always convey ideas using condescending questions?

I make this mistake a lot, so don't feel too offended.

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Only when the presented premise is clearly stupid and based on 100% faulty data.

"OMG what about battery fires!" is so worn out in the EV discussions I don't bother to be nice when rebutting it.

Hehe, there was a fire in a parking garage next to an airport in Norway a few years ago which basically destroyed the garage and all cars inside. People were really quick to blame it on an EV igniting and raving about how EV's should be banned from parking garages and on and on for days until investigation showed the fire started in a diesel car.

(Granted, the many EV's in there made the fire much harder for fire fighters to put out)

Same with the story of a city in Germany banning EVs from parking garages because there was a fire in one.

The fire was started by an ICE car :D

I do not! But I feel like we should not be kind to misinformation and false innuendo.