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'Not in my backyard': EV-phobia spreads across Korea
Korean consumers are fired up in their growing opposition to EVs in the wake of a massive fire in Incheon last week, but the prejudice is statistically baseless.
An EV charging station with a notice saying ″Not operational″ in an underground parking lot in a commercial building in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi, on Wednesday, amid growing public fears after a Mercedes-Benz explosion in Incheon last week. Fueled by a recent Mercedes explosion in an underground parking garage in Incheon, Kim joins a growing chorus of potential car buyers in the country fearful of the once-touted vehicle type, a trend that even inspired claims of "EV-phobia" in local headlines. The scenario in which the explosion of just one car damaged 140 vehicles in the garage, 40 of which were totally incinerated, has imposed an even greater sense of fear in many across the country, where more than half of the population lives in apartments.
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