{"id":389983,"date":"2018-12-21T06:48:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T05:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/inside-ev-baseball-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-12-21T06:48:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T05:48:48","slug":"inside-ev-baseball-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/inside-ev-baseball-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside EV Baseball – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Most people have no direct experience with electric cars \u2013 and neither do I.<\/p>\n

Well, not\u00a0officially<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The difference is, I should have it \u2013 because unlike 99.9 percent of the population, I am a car journalist. The car companies send me new cars every week to test drive and evaluate.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been my full-time job for more than 25 years.<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t get electric cars.<\/p>\n

And not just me. Other car journalists don\u2019t get them, either. And that ought to serve as a kind of 9 volt canary in the coal mine about electric cars.\u00a0
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Why<\/em>\u00a0don\u2019t some of us get them?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not because we don\u2019t want them. \u201cWant\u201d in the sense of professional obligation. I\u2019ve been accused of not liking electric cars \u2013 which is true.\u00a0 I also do not like minivans and most \u201ccrossovers,\u201d either. But I want to drive them in order to write about them because I know there are lots of people out there who are interested in them.<\/p>\n

My personal affection or lack thereof is as professionally immaterial as a doctor\u2019s liking or disliking of his patient.<\/p>\n

I want to get electric cars for the same reason I want to get any other car: To get seat time and real-world experience, in order to convey useful information to the people who read my stuff, which is how I make a living. And that\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0important to me.<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t get electric cars \u2013 for two reasons.<\/p>\n

The first reason is that I live too far away. My place is up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in the far southside of rural SW Virginia. The press pool for this part of the country is located in the DC area, which is about 220 miles one way.<\/p>\n

This is too far for electric cars.\u00a0
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Most people have no direct experience with electric cars \u2013 and neither do I. Well, not\u00a0officially. The difference is, I should have it \u2013 because unlike 99.9 percent of the population, I am a car journalist. The car companies send me new cars every week to test drive and evaluate. It\u2019s been my full-time job […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}