if you had any doubt that the mainstream media is lying to you about Tesla and electric vehicles
this article is even more proof that they are it's coming from hot cars and it's titled
10 brutal truths about owning electric cars buyers aren't prepared to hear electric cars
are undoubtedly are undoubtedly popular but all buyers should know these facts before jumping on
the Ed bandwagon and I've covered hot cars quite a few times before on this channel because they
make hot garbage and the most frustrating part to me isn't that they're just writing articles that
are trash it's that they're writing articles that are factually incorrect that a journalist should
be able to Google in like 10 seconds and find out that they are being factually incorrect so
I think humans are humans and we make mistakes and I've definitely made my fair share of mistakes I'm
not saying I haven't but the fact that hot cars continues to make mistakes that are only going
One Direction which is against Tesla and EVs and they continue to make factually incorrect
statements to to reassert their pre resupposition that makes me think they're doing it intentionally
because well before I go too far down that rabbit hole let me show you the arguments they're making
and then you can decide for yourself if you think they're being disingenuous and uh well let's get
into it I'm excited for you guys okay so the first thing on their list is electric cars are not as
green as you'd expect and it says this consumers need to keep in mind that electricity production
May create carbon pollution yeah it pretty much always does furthermore a study from MIT showed
that manufacturing the battery for an EB produces more emissions than building a regular vehicle now
that is true building or manufacturing an EB does generally take more carbon than building an ice
vehicle or an internal combustion engine vehicle but that doesn't mean that EVS create more carbon
over their lifetime it just means manufacturing them can be more carbon expensive but check this
out if we click on the link to this study it takes us to uh not the study it's something
else it's kind of a vague overview of like a bunch of different things like a landing page but it's
not the study so I Googled the study and this is what I found this is the this is from mit.edu
and it's titled and this is from the study this is conclusions from their study and it's titled
our electric vehicles definitely better for the climate than gas powered cars so question answer
yes although electric car batteries make them more carbon intensive to manufacture than gas
cars that's what the article said or that's where they stopped they more than make up for
it by driving much cleaner under nearly any conditions so what the article is doing right
here is they're quoting this study to say that showed that manufacturing the battery for an EB
produces more emissions than building a regular vehicle but then that should be a comma because
that's what it is in the study and then it says they more than make up for it by driving much
cleaner under nearly any conditions you cannot tell me in good faith that they think this article
thinks hey we're educating our readers and our readers need to know this when they selectively
chose to stop what the art or what the a study said they chose to select one tiny part of what
the study said but not the rest of it so that they could prove their point because the rest of their
study the rest of the study disproved the point that they were trying to make you cannot tell me
that someone is doing that by accident or doing that while making an argument in good faith it's
just clearly not made in good faith and it's crazy frustrating to see because that's like
that's the top thing in their article so probably most people who are going to read that are going
to see like oh yeah EBS are worse because of the carbon but and they and look it's MIT is
saying it so it's got to be true but they that no one's going to take the time to actually go to the
study especially when the link that they put is broken and doesn't work so yeah that one's pretty
frustrating but it's still not even the worst one oops it has kicked my life check this out you guys
are going to get a kick out of this ready disposed batteries are hazardous ways oh that is a hot take
um check this out most batteries will have to be dismantled and recycles yeah you got to do
something with batter once their lifespan is over uh so yeah dismantling or recycling I'm
good or disposed of as hazardous waste okay says the Orange County Register the media
Outlet also refers to Cal EPA statistics which show that despite the state's aggressive efforts
to Electrify California lacks any EV battery recycling facilities that's just not true it's
just not true there's there's like there's no two ways about it that is just straight
oh that's straight garbage okay so you I'm if you're if you watch this channel you're probably
pretty into EVs and uh we know the biggest or at least the most well-known battery recycler is
called redwoods it's because it was founded by one of the founders of Tesla but anyway let's look up
redwoods and would you look at this uh one year update redwoods California EV battery recycling
program wait a second redwoods California EV battery recycling program but California doesn't
have an EV recycling program they don't have any recycling facility Well let's let's look and this
is just coming out from uh just a month and a half ago and in February of last year Redwood launched
the world's first and most comprehensive electric vehicle battery recycling program in California
whoa that uh that's exactly opposite of what the article is saying and check this out they
collected about half a million pounds of batteries and out of that half a million pounds about 90
or over 95 percent of the raw materials were recovered that is extremely impressive but most
importantly I mean not really most importantly but this just goes to show what that article is
saying is straight up factually false and yet of course they're going to say this so out of the
first two that we've seen electric cars are not as green as you'd expect according to MIT wrong
and disposed batteries are hazardous waste that California doesn't have an EV battery recycling
facility wrong again in fact California has one of the largest ones in North America that's another
thing the article just gets wrong and at this point we're we're only 2 out of 10 in and I am
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charging infrastructure is plagued by problems and this is the first one where I actually kind
of agree except I would say it really depends on who you're using whose infrastructure if
you're using like Electrify America you might have significantly more problems than using something
like Tesla superchargers so that's something that would be important to go into but I'm not
that's a reasonable point I'll I'll leave that one electric car drive electric car drive tires
wore out fast whoa that is a really tough sentence to read um but yeah generally speaking that's not
entirely wrong electric cars tend to have quicker acceleration than gas cow gas powered cars and
quicker acceleration does wear out tires faster so yes generally if you're accelerating faster you
wear out your tires faster that's the case with any high performance car if you're getting a high
performance car then acceleration or quickness is like one of the selling points of that car
so to say one of the selling points which is this the quickness or acceleration is also a
negative yeah that's true but it's also true of any gas car that is also quick um yeah so I'm fine
with that I get look at this one this one's good long charging times are a buzz kill most people
know that charging an EB takes too much time that reminds me of that it's always sunny episode where
Charlie invents those Kitten Mittens where he's like is your cat making too much noise is your
cat making too much noise uh anyway but then they say based on level 2 charging it takes up to eight
hours and yeah that's true level two charging does take a while but the whole point of level
2 Charging is that you're doing it while you're at your home traditionally overnight so that
your battery is charged back up for tomorrow and you'll be good to go but you're not doing level
two charging like in the middle of a road trip if you're in the middle of a road trip you're using a
public charger which is probably level three which is going to be a lot faster so the argument that
charging takes too long okay I think that's a fair argument but then saying level two charging takes
too long it's like yeah but level 2 Charging is kind of supposed to be done overnight so you're
not you're if you're if you're trying to charge quickly you're going to use like a supercharger
and that's going to charge a lot faster so yeah that would be an important thing to bring up if
you wanted to make a reasonable case but of course if you don't want to make a reasonable case then
that's a good way to do it and this one doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me um it says used
electric cars are still expensive despite the price cut and I read through it and I'll read
through it again because I I truly don't get it if you browse used electric cars for sale you may see
that the costs have started to drop however don't expect an impressive price reduction as EVS remain
too expensive for regular consumers NPR explains that prices are unlikely to fall anytime soon just
for context the average new vehicle so new vehicle is all vehicles transaction price was 48 000 in
the first quarter of 2023 as per Kelly Blue Book elsewhere the pre-pandemic price for an average
new vehicle was 37 000 or nearly thirty eight thousand and that's fine but that's not saying
anything about the differences between electric vehicles and gas powered vehicles uh I literally
don't see anything about those differences but here's something that I thought was interesting
which is this article coming from clean Technica which is titled uh gas cars are embarrassingly
uncompetitive life cycle cost analysis and I'll just show you this chart I'm not going to read
the whole thing because it'll take too long but this is it this is uh battery electric cars in a
15-year uh time frame versus internal combustion engine cars and you're gonna get a kick out of
this are you ready for this okay here's the Tesla Model 3 and the purple is the total expenses so
you can see right here total expenses after 15 years it's about a hundred thousand really close
and if you look at the Prius which is considered like an economical but still reasonable car more
expensive over 15 years than a Tesla Model 3 but this is the kicker the Toyota Corolla which is
kind of one of the more budget cars in the US and it's also one of the best selling cars in the US
um that car costs almost exactly the same as a Tesla Model 3. now the reason why this is funny
is the Tesla Model 3 is considered a luxury car in the US and it definitely has better performance
um better technology better a bunch of features than the Corolla yet after a 15-year or full
lifetime of the car this is saying that the model 3 and the Corolla are going to cost about the same
so if people knew that I would say most people would probably rather have a Tesla Model 3 than
a Toyota Corolla and if they cost the same over the lifetime you're picking the model three I
mean let's be real here so yeah there's actually more to it than that um but I just thought it was
kind of funny that you're talking about lifetime costs and the model 3 which is again a luxury
car considered a luxury car is beating out one of the most budget cars so yeah if you want to
say well anyway so yeah you can say electric cars are are expensive and yes their sticker
price is traditionally more expensive but you have to factor in the operating costs and then
you're going to save money in the long run so cool um extreme heat impacts driving range
okay EV charging takes longer in the winter yep it does Evie winter range loss
yep there is but the part that I didn't really or I didn't appreciate about this is then they
talk about this new research from AAA that's showing uh when you have the temperature dipped
below 20 degrees Fahrenheit then you're using the HVAC system to heat the vehicle
then you have a huge decrease in range like 41 and that's fine but probably it would be
it would be important to include that the most popular electric vehicle company Tesla uses heat
pumps because of this exact reason and heat pumps are way more efficient um than using traditional
like resist I think it's called resistive heaters I forget exactly what they're what they're called
let me know in the comment section below um but heat pumps are just much more efficient for this
exact reason so I think it'd be important to say hey yes uh it can it does driving in the winter
does decrease your range but the most popular EV company has done a lot to decrease the reduction
in Winter driving by using things like the heat pump or the Octo valve or a bunch of other stuff
anyway but yeah let's let's do a quick recap because this is just crazy to me the first and
second points that they make which I would say as you're reading an article the top of the article
is going to be read a lot more than the bottom of the article because a lot of people aren't
going to read all the way to the bottom so the fact that they have two of their biggest I don't
know what to call them I lies or mistruths or it's tough because I want to give them the benefit of
the doubt that maybe they just made a mistake and they just didn't know uh but I've seen this happen
with hot cars so many times that it just feels like it is intentionally misleading they're not
trying to give you the right information they are trying to deceive you the public the reader and
that just does not sit well with me so the fact that the first two points and arguably like what
I was there probably the most important points they make are both just wrong just dead wrong
um yeah it's it's really frustrating to see and we I don't I don't see any let me search
for it I don't see any advertising uh that that they're advertising that they're being bought
for or that that these articles are being bought and paid for by traditional Automotive companies
um but I would bet again this is just a guess I'm not saying this is the case but I would bet
they're probably being paid by traditional traditional Automotive companies uh in just
roundabout ways such as they're advertising for other things and they kind of have a a non-formal
agreement that they'll do things like like this or at least that they won't say bad things about
um the traditional Automotive companies that they are being paid by or there's a ton of
different ways that they it can be paid for clicks uh there's there's a bunch of different stuff but
to me this reads like an intentionally misleading hit piece
um not a factually informative article and so that's why we gotta debunk it all right we'll
leave things there if you guys noticed I don't know if you did I got this new mic which I'm
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really do appreciate it and uh oh yeah if you have any articles like this one this one was
sent to me by uh by someone who is a viewer so that's why I'm I'm going over it so if you have
any other articles that are like this then send them my way and I'll probably make a video about
them uh at least if they're as bad as this one I will definitely make a video about them all
right we'll leave things there for today I'll see you guys next time peace [Music] thank you