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  1. This George F. Will column's premise is that consumers don't want EVs. Oddly, he begins by pointing out they were wrong about thinking they still wanting horses when Henry Ford rolled out the Model T. But there's something more./1 washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/20/united-auto-workers-strike-electric-vehicles/
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      The only basis to which Will points for that claim is that "this month’s inventory of unsold EVs is almost twice that of gas-powered vehicles." His source for that pivotal factual premise is not a news story; the link goes to a Wall Street Journal editorial. He was credulous./2
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        The WSJ editorial -- from August, not "this month" --was about how some EV startups in China are going bankrupt as the market becomes more competitive there, leading to falling prices. Buried deep it said Cox Automotive had reported that. /3 wsj.com/articles/electric-vehicles-china-biden-administration-industrial-policy-754e1937
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          Small problem: The data the WSJ editorial board cited - 103 day EV inventory - was obsolete. That was June; the July #, reported weeks before their editorial, was 100. They used old data to avoid acknowledging the improving trend. But there's more. /4 coxautoinc.com/market-insights/new-vehicle-inventory-july-2023/
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            Huge problem: The data doesn't include Tesla. More Tesla EVs are sold in the US than by all other manufacturers combined, so a dataset about EV sales that excludes it is garbage. To George F. Will: never take the WSJ editorial board's factual assertions at face value. /end
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              PS: For context, I'm not an EV zealot. (I don't own one, although probably the next time I need to buy a new car it will be electric.) I am just offended by misleading presentations of the facts when it seems deliberate rather than an inadvertent mistake.
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