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[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

I think we underestimate how much the public cares... Reddit/Lemmy tend to be a very big echo chambers and we've seen several big events where online discource was completely at odds with reality. It still doesn't explain how the increase. Because up until today, I believed Europe stopped buying them, but then the figures pedalled are fucking fake. Not sure how your place does it, but here the year of the car is on a reg plate... I see a lot of new teslas, far more than any other EV. I've seen couple of Renault 5s! Those are cool. But in the +40k mark? Just teslas. Despite allegedly MG making a Tesla killer a year ago, I've yet to see a single one.