Somehow misleading EV propaganda and metrics always gets a pass from the same federal regulators who are incredibly strict when it’s internal combustion manufacturers making claims. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
One of the reasons why the public is beginning to become hesitant about buying into battery-powered vehicles is the disingenuous manner in which they’ve been presented to people.
There is this ludicrous business of “fast” charging, for one thing. It is no such thing. It is merely not as slow as other forms of charging, as at home (which is so slow you almost might as well walk to where you need to go in that you might just get there before the EV is ready to drive there) which is not the same thing as fast.
It takes at least 20-30 minutes to recover a partial charge at a “fast” charger. Observe that they almost never mention the italicized part. To get a full charge takes much longer.
To characterize either as “fast” when it takes less than five minutes to fully refuel a gas-powered car is etymologically malicious, because it is meant to manipulate people into using a term to describe something that is the opposite of what the term is generally understood to mean.
The same etymological maliciousness manifested during the “pandemic,” which wasn’t that, either. At least not in terms of what most people understood the term to mean (that being a mass die-off event such as the plague of the Middle Ages or even the Spanish Flu of the early 20th century).
Yeah, deception, omission, and marketing, will only appear “successful” until those pesky laws of physics slap the morons amenable to such absurdities upside their vacuous skulls.
A “slap” that reminds them that in the battles between desire/wishful thinking/”politics,” versus the laws of physics, the latter remain undefeated!