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An interesting article I spotted- AP news link

Apparently there's an EV-related law in china and some of the fine print states that EVs must transmit location and other data in real time to government agencies.

Here is the CNCDA auto outlook report for 3rd quarter
https://www.cncda.org/wp-content/uploads/Cal-Covering-3Q-18.pdf

I see some interesting numbers:

Ca. Sales (YTD 3rd Quarter)
BEV 61,386 (42% of USA sales)
PHEV 45,537 (53% of USA sales)

USA Sales (YTD 3rd Quarter)
BEV 144,505
PHEV 85,369

So these 3Q numbers are unusual, representing a number of factors. I attempt to interpret below.

(1) Normally, PHEV sales in Ca. are about 40% of USA but this year we are approaching 55% of PHEV sales sales in Ca. I tentatively attribute this to the new HOV rules in California, requiring current Ca. plug-in owners to get new plug-ins to stay in HOV beyond Jan_2019.

(1) BEV., normally Ca. is 50% of BEV market, now dropping down to 42%. What's happening here is the Tesla Model-3 sales are swamping the normal annual trends, and it would appear Tesla is selling more of the Model-3's outside of...

This gotta be BS right? FIrst, why would it use the old design taillights, second, how is this caught on camera? Its clearly edited and out on that parking lot... Very badly edited also... I checked out their facebook, apparently by some reason they have 600 page likes, but literally no likes what so ever on any of the BS articles they share... checked all their posts all the way back to 2016, not a single like... This got to be complete and utter BS right?
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