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I don't care for their cars, but I feel bad for the victims who were just trying to buy a vehicle with a better drivetrain or save the environment.

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If they wanted to “save the environment “, they would have gotten a bus pass.

You may argue that a person needs a car, but I would argue they have chosen a specific lifestyle requiring one.

Electric cars do have an effect on urban air pollution, though. Chinese cities have really cleaned up the air and become more breathable recently, for example. You used to have black soot coming out your nose; it was awful.

This undeniable. In Shenzen the air was quite healthy, whereby all taxis, buses and motorcycles and tuktuks were all electric!

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