Cause for celebration: the failure was not as bad as it could have been.
Orwell was on to something when he examined the mentality of certain kinds of people in a scene in his novel, 1984, wherein the character Parsons — who is described as one of those people who will eagerly swallow the most outrageous absurdity — expresses exultant happiness about Big Brother having increased the chocolate ration. In fact — as the novel’s hero Winston Smith understands perfectly well — the chocolate ration had just recently been reduced.
Maybe Parsons is working for ADC, which is a German roadside assistance company. Kind of like AAA. Anyhow, the company says it tested the battery pack in VW’s ID3 device and found that after 100,000 miles of driving, it only lost just shy of 10 percent of its capacity to hold a charge.
