Earlier today, at Oakland, CA charging station.

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Hard to fake emissions on an EV.

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I think the implication is that VW is untrustworthy due to their previous actions.

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Don’t worry, they threw a couple engineers under the bus

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You mean management, right?

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And then plot twist: the car has advanced technology that uses the EV battery to scrape the asphalt and convert it to diesel. After that it burns it at 9 mpg.

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Unironically, EVs polluting would spur adoption. Can’t ‘roll coal’ in a Prius.

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Exactly, so it wouldn’t pertain to EVs

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