Quote from: fgngfngfn on August 01, 2024, 22:05:58I don't see any marketing articles on every corner about how ICE vehicles are good. So try guessing again, who has the conflict of interest.
What a naive way to look at things. The status quo doesn't need to market how much better they are, all they need to do is do negative marketing to make people stick with the status quo. Or you are going to tell me you've never seen anti-EV marketing?
That said, conflict of interest means that you have some sort of personal stake in the game, not the amount of marketing that is done. The ones doing the data is the police departments themselves.
QuoteThat's cherry-picking of data and inflated cost of ICE car maintenance plus huge EV subsidies that will go away. So basically a lie.
It isn't cherry picking inflated cost of ICE cars, these are the costs quoted by the police departments themselves. The problem which you fail to understand is HOW police cars are used. Most of them sit around most of the time idling, followed by mostly local city driving.
This is very poor match up for ICE vehicles because their optimum efficiency is in highway usage, and engines don't do very well when idling. Engines aren't made with long idling in mind, which makes engines more likely to suffer permanent damage, they are also just burning lots of fuel while idling because the efficiency while idling is terrible due to not being at optimum temperature.