![]() Other photos of decommissioned electric cars parked in Hangzhou, China appeared in several articles in 2019. Lead Stories was unable to identify the date of the photo that appears in this Facebook post or when it was first published online but did confirm the photo shows a car lot in Hangzhou, China. (Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Mon Jul 12 14:21:04 2021 UTC) ![]() This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing: So tell me, how is this "environmentally friendly"? I'll wait. Turns out no one wants to buy an electric car once the battery is shot. It was captioned: Electric car cemetery in France. The image of the electric cars parked in a lot overgrown with weeds appeared in a post published on Facebook on July 10, 2021. Second, although not identical to the situation in France, it appears these electric cars were also decommissioned not due to a battery or mechanical failure, but because of problems with a company's business model, oversupply in a market, and low demand. There are similar photos circulating online that do show decommissioned electric cars stored in a parking lot in France, but this photo shows electric cars parked in Hangzhou, China. Is this an electric car "cemetery" in France, full of cars that became worthless due to battery failure? No, that's not true: The caption attached to this photo is misleading on two counts: First, the photo has been misidentified as being a car cemetery in France.
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