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I drove an EV for three days. It saved me money but cost me time (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/environment@aussie.zone
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My problem with articles like these is that I can point out all the issues:

Charging turns out to be fiddly and time-consuming.

No it's not

There's no tap-and-go option, and I need to scan a QR code, download an app, and set up an account. It takes me another 10 minutes because the verification email never turns up.

Yes the FIRST time, this is like saying an iphone is difficult and time consuming... because you have to set it up first

There's no tap-and-go option

You mean this? https://evie.com.au/autocharge/

Just plug in. No app, no tap.

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The NRMA recommends charging "to 80 per cent unless more range is absolutely needed" as a courtesy to other drivers.

So what did he do? Like a typical petrol driver he:

But for this experiment, I charge from 46 to 100 per cent. It takes about an hour.

._.

This is the thing, if I know he's done a shit job on something I know about, how badly are they writing about topics I don't know about?

Thanks for nothing

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[–] 4 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

This is the thing, if I know he’s done a shit job on something I know about, how badly are they writing about topics I don’t know about?

I feel that. There have been a couple of articles by science communicators or journalists I've respected, but tempered my awe after they say something negligent on a topic I'm more familiar with.

One trivial but illustrative example was a science communicator you'd all know informing the public about secure data wiping (great! don't sell unwiped devices online, some people do search for those) but recommending a 35-pass Gutmann wipe, which Gutmann dismisses in their own epilogue to their paper, "In the time since this paper was published, some people have treated the 35-pass overwrite technique described in it more as a kind of voodoo incantation to banish evil spirits than the result of a technical analysis of drive encoding techniques. As a result, they advocate applying the voodoo to PRML and EPRML drives even though it will have no more effect than a simple scrubbing with random data. In fact performing the full 35-pass overwrite is pointless for any drive [since it covers everything back to 1970s methods]". It will basically just put unnecessary wear on the disk and waste your time.

But even then, I haven't had examples like this, where you've been able to utterly demolish their opinion piece like that.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    But even then, I haven’t had examples like this, where you’ve been able to utterly demolish their opinion piece like that

    I'd suggest reading my reply. But the TL;DR is that the article doesn't really get "demolished" in quite that sense, because it's very careful to make sure nothing it says is actually wrong per se. It just brushes over its excuses for avoiding best-practice, creating the effect that a casual reader will likely come away with entirely the wrong conclusions, while having something like plausible deniability on "corrections" (because the real problem isn't with it being incorrect, it's undue emphasis on one particular point).

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