Half of us love electric cars.

Half of us bury passionate objection to them.

While we can debate the psychology of being passionate about something you're not interested

in and don't want and will never own, there is no debate over the black and white science-based

answers to some of these objections.

What's so bad about electric cars?

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What they're saying about electric cars now?

Electric cars are still a relatively new industry and like all new industries, it's had its

growing pains.

We have to do everything badly before we can learn to do it well.

So many of the anti-EV arguments, claimed by the electric car Hater crowd, have had

a grain of truth to them.

But over time, the reality of electric cars has progressed substantially, while the arguments

against them have remained largely stagnant and have become obsolete.

A particularly good place to find them is on Facebook.

Usually when any automotive magazine posts an article about an electric car, the comment

threads stretch into the hundreds.

And each of them is like a bingo card of obsolete anti-EV arguments that are 15 years out

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