About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters.

From the article: “About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters. The automaker last year became so inundated with driving-range complaints that it created a special team to cancel owners’ service appointments.”

  • krische@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    But once it’s out, it’s out. It can then be recycled and reused “forever”.

    You extract oil once and burn it once; then that carbon is stuck in the atmosphere “forever”. Now you have to extract more oil and do it all over again.

    That’s the big difference, EVs don’t consume lithium; they borrow it.

    • ghariksforge@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That’s not how recycling works.

      Most recycling today is PR anyway. Recycled stuff gets dumped into some poor third world country.