Electric cars and their ecological balance. Always a popular topic to discuss.

Because the electricity for the electric vehicles has to come from somewhere, even if it is the hamster's running wheel that produces the electricity and the hamster blows out CO2 when it exhales. All the more interesting, even bizarre, is a photo that has been increasingly discussed in recent days: Is Tesla building diesel engines next to the charging stations?

The sharepic, which was originally on Twitter but can now also be found on Facebook, shows two charging stations and a container-like structure with a chimney in the background. According to the accompanying status text, you can see the Tesla charging station at Warberg Castle and the container is a large diesel generator that supplies the electricity. So much for the topic of ecological balance... if this claim weren't fake.

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About the facts:

The charging station itself is real. This is a station with two connection points (with up to 17kW each). These are at the Hotel Burg Warberg in 38378 Warberg ( compare ). But… and this is ultimately a fake, the container has absolutely nothing to do with the charging stations. It is also not a diesel engine!

We received an answer from the Burg Warberg eV Federal School, which describes exactly what the container is:

Dear Mr Andre,

Thank you very much for your email. Unfortunately, we have been confronted with this claim and the image in the last few days. We can deny this.

The building is a container. There is a pellet heater in this container. This is used in winter to heat Warberg Castle. Because the basic performance of our heating is not always sufficient. In summer, the container is placed in the outdoor pool and the water is heated.

Was I able to answer your questions? Otherwise you would be happy to come to me again.

With kind regards

So: The suggested context of the sharepic is a fake!


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