an employee asked when the company was going to provide free gasoline to be fair.

It’s already fair. This is someone who didn’t realize that equal isn’t always fair and fair isn’t always equal. Your president’s response was spot on.

My company has a half dozen L1 chargers (installed about a decade ago) but our EV driving group has expanded so much it’s crazy (about 25% EV drivers) so I’m pushing to get a dozen L2 chargers installed. We have over 50 EVs parked in our lot every day, and that’s after all the carpooling and van pooling we do. Not every employee can take advantage of all those benefits but it’s fair for all those benefits to exist.

My first EV I swore I’d upgrade after diving 3 generations of Prius previously. I test drove a few but my favorite was the Volvo XC40 Recharge. I put 36000 miles on that car but ultimately sold it. I still miss the incredible handling. I could have gone with another Prius but I wanted something higher performance.

I now drive an F150 Lightning. Amazing truck that I use for light hauling weekly, camping monthly, and as a daily commuter. I went with it over an ICE F150 for fuel efficiency and environmental reasons (of note with the feature set I was looking for there the EV F150 and ICE F150 were effectively at cost parity).

Congratulations! I actually recently sold my '21 with 36,000 miles on it. I still miss that car, incredibly fun to drive, great handling, awesome features, and Android Automotive OS beats the pants off Android Auto. You picked up an amazing EV!

Now granted I replaced the vehicle with an F150 Lightning which is also awesome, just in a different way.

Yes, but you didn’t consider how much it costs society when you drive an EV which causes some oil exec’s blood pressure to spike!

In many cases they’re using the same think tanks and PR firms so it’s really no surprise.

But it is interesting how many dummies fall for it. The typical people that you’d expect. The ones that fall for everything and don’t understand there’s a difference between NBC Nightly News and some guy on a YouTube video saying dumb shit.

People don’t just fall for it, they teach others. My daughter came home from school and told me about her classmate who started in on her when that classmate found out we have an entirely EV household. All the usual myths plus some brand new stuff only kids (or Alex Jones) could make up. I took it as a learning opportunity to do some critical thinking with her… But her classmate didn’t invent that on the spot; other parents are absorbing the disinformation and teaching it to their kids uncritically as a fact

I’d say it’s depressing but I’ve resigned myself to it just being human nature at this point.