People who buy EVs mostly aren't climate catastrophe activists.

in cars •  11 months ago 

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It's weird to me how many people still seem to assume that all EV drivers are some far left climate catastrophe activists who think the world is gonna end in a few years if humanity keeps doing what it's doing.

Teslas (at least the model 3s) are less expensive than a lot of people think, but that kind of modern hippy stereotype implied but the anti-EV crowd still can't afford them.

I own one. My next door neighbor owns one. A block away, someone at the house that babysits my daughter after school owns one. And it wouldn't surprise me if every one of us would still have chosen that car if it turned out it was worse for the environment due to the mining bits or what generates power in the local grid or whatever.

In my experience, owners are primarily upper middle class centrists engaged in white collar work. They don't smell like Marianne Williamson, and struggle paying those student loans they took out for a humanities degree or something.

They're not quoting Ibram X Kendi at you, pretending it's profound, living in their parents' basement, or wanting the government to address climate change by seizing the means of production.

Some care about the environment more than most, and that might have factored into the choice to buy one, but I don't know a single owner I'd describe as far left.

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