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>>rntn+(OP)
Looks like an astroturf campaign, with essentially the same story popping up around the country.

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>>bryanl+51
I've been seeing a lot of anti-electric stories recently, even here. A lot about how Hertz has been selling their electric cars (mostly unrelated to them being electric, but because they see a lot of scrapes and scrapes are costlier for them to fix on the electrics they have), about how the market is cooling down, etc.

Seems like some interests are threatened by the prevalence of electric cars.

>>stavro+R1
You can't engine-brake with an electric engine (with a combustion car, downshifting will force your car to be slower when going downhill, basically) so in mountain regions with ups and downs there's way more braking leading to massively increased tyre wear.

>>thefz+34
You clearly haven’t owned or driven one. Most have a configurable setting for regenerative braking, where the rotation of the wheels turns the motors to put energy back into the battery, and this has a very similar effect on speed. Less flexible, perhaps, than engine braking, as most EVs have a single forward gear, but I’ve now driven 86,000 miles in mine and am still on the factory discs and pads.