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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." An EV website selling an EV sales report says the
by mvkel 3y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
An EV website selling an EV sales report says the EV market is doing better than everyone else says. Hmmm.
- RCitronsBroker 3y agothat’s some meta-irony right there lol
- serial_dev 3y agoI don't see the meta irony, the article doesn't say "difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it".
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoThe negative news is coming from vaguely respectable outlets, which means they don't generally outright lie, which means they do often agree that global sales are rising in paragraphs near the end. They just put a lot of effort into promoting "bad vibes" whenever possible. I'm not quite sure what the mechanism for this is, but we've seen exactly the same with wind power, solar PV, batteries etc. We're now in the absurd position of China churning out all those things at scales and prices that scare the West, and will have deep and long lasting geopolitical implications. Meanwhile, sections of the western press are taking victory laps, as if they were farsighted to predict this EV slowdown, that isn't actually happening. It's bizarre.
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoThe defining feature of this particular sales report seems to be that it is free. See the section titles "Information wants to be free". > My goal today is simple: give you the best-detailed overview of 2023 EV sales globally that you can get anywhere, without you having to spend thousands of dollars to get it. Any dollars, for that matter.
- cowsandmilk 3y agoFree if you subscribe to the free newsletter where you will be spammed with requests to subscribe to the paid newsletter…
- rsynnott 3y agoIt’s just a different framing of the same data. The market is growing strongly, but not at the ludicrously high rate of growth it enjoyed previously. There are just so many ways to frame that, particularly as most people, including a lot of people on this very website, don’t understand the difference between growth and rate of growth.