How fake news can shape the car industry

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Luton Airport car park fire shows impact false information, especially about electric cars, can have

You see it regularly with EVs: the national grid will blow up, they’ll conk out on you, you won’t be able to drive to see Granny in Scotland at a moment’s notice, they'll catch fire, they’ll collapse car parks under their extra weight… Public perception of electric cars has become particularly topical this week following the fire in a Luton Airport multi-storey car park.

We’ve had media reports already this year of these cars spying on their British drivers, and even how the Chinese state can take control of them remotely and put the brakes on. Quite why they’d do either of these I don’t know, but articles like this will have been the only exposure many casual observers have had to Chinese cars. While the industry is united in encouraging the uptake of EVs, it is less so for Chinese cars.

 

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