Fact-checking images claiming to show abandoned electric vehicles in France – ABC10.com KXTV
For years, there have been memes and photos circulating online that claim to show hundreds of electric vehicles abandoned in Paris
One meme says: “France: They bought electric cars for civil servants but it was too expensive to replace the batteries. After that, no one else wanted the cars. Now they are here.”
A tweet with the meme has been retweeted more than 8,000 times and has over 24,000 likes.
A Facebook post that has been shared more than 700 times shows different pictures with a long caption that says the electric vehicle “boneyard” in Paris exists because there is no way to dispose of electric vehicle batteries that need to be replaced, and the city can’t afford to pay for replacement batteries.
Does this meme show abandoned electric vehicles in France?
No, this meme doesn’t show an electric car graveyard in France. The photo was taken in China.
Using RevEye, a reverse image search engine, VERIFY tracked the type of vehicles seen in the images to Chinese website Baidu. The…
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