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Data: EV sales up 50% YoY. Business Insider headline: “Fewer people are buying electric cars”.

A useful discussion for HN might be: Why are they choosing this framing?

Some discussion in Electrek about why the record growth is framed as if the numbers show absolute-figure declines: https://electrek.co/2023/11/09/which-is-it-already-is-us-ev-...



The answer is obvious when you look at who wrote this op-ed.

Always remember: It's bad on purpose to make you click.


I wonder if there is brigading occuring here? It is odd that your comment is downvoted, when so many negative comments are getting upvotes. Hmm...


Nah, I think I just posted late, so this ended up below the fold and got almost no eyes on it. HN has a huge early-mover bias in the comment field


True, but there's something weird about this one in general. I've never seen an EV article get this much activity here.

And a lot of it is highly charged (no pun intended).




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