Congress has passed a bill that would fund incentives to purchase electric vehicles. But a false claim is circulating on social media that purports to show an “electric car cemetery” in France. The photo actually shows a car-sharing company’s storage lot in China. The cars were to be replaced by updated electric vehicles.
Congress on Aug. 12 passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which devotes hundreds of billions of dollars to promote clean energy sources and transition the U.S. away from fossil fuels.
The bill extends the existing tax credit of up to $7,500 for eligible individuals who buy qualifying electric vehicles through 2032 and offers a tax credit of up to $4,000 for purchases of certain used electric vehicles.
The bill’s support for electric vehicles has sparked misleading claims that the vehicles are unreliable and impractical. A Facebook post from Aug. 7 posts a screenshot of a tweet showing a sea of parked cars in an overgrown field with the caption, “This is France. They bought electric cars for civil servants. But it was too expensive to replace the batteries. And THIS is the Green New Plan to save our country.”
The Facebook user captioned the screenshot of the tweet, “How’s that working for ya..”
But the photo was taken in China, not France, and the cars were not discarded because of the batteries.
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