Posted on 02/06/2024 7:19:32 AM PST by george76
South Korean drivers are concerned that their future EVs could catch fire while charging or in a car crash
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In 2020 and 2021, several high-profile cases of EVs catching fire were reported in South Korea. Three years ago, an electric bus manufactured by Hyundai Motor caught fire while in use.
A few months earlier, Hyundai Motor recalled more than 77,000 Kona EVs sold globally after 13 of the electric crossover vehicles caught fire. Hyundai and its battery supplier LG Chem were at odds over the reasons for the recall, with the battery cell maker saying it wasn’t its battery that was the culprit.
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Concerns about vehicles catching fire during charging in closed-space underground parking lots of high-rise apartment buildings have deterred Koreans to consider switching from a gasoline-fueled car to an EV.
So EV sales declined by 0.1% to 157,823 units in 2023, the first drop in six years
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The relatively higher prices of EVs compared to conventional passenger cars and the rising interest rates have also contributed to the decline.
Globally, price affordability, anxiety over battery range, a lack of a widespread network of charging points, and higher insurance costs are the key reasons for consumers to think twice before buying an electric vehicle.
In November, a group of U.S. car dealers warned the Biden Administration that most U.S. car buyers aren’t interested in purchasing EVs, incentives or not.
(Excerpt) Read more at oilprice.com ...
I don’t want to park near one.
Sounds like the SK Government needs to buy Meedan | Check AI to dispel such silly misinformation. If they got out in front of this obvious misinformation, people would be snatching up those EVs like there's no tomorrow. (/s in case you didn't know)
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So,when a person charges their car in an apartment complex, and the car catches fire and burns the whole place down, killing people in the process- who is going to stand trial for murder? The battery makers? The owner? The apartment building for not providing a “safe place to charge cars”?
In crowded areas, there are likely going to be all kinds of tragedies due to battery fires, but you can bet that the msm will do their darndest to cover them up in order to keep the lie of evs alive-
It is obvious that electrical vehicles being foisted upon the public before the technology is mature is a sacrifice of safety and an abandonment of common sense.
Since this folly is so obvious then what, exactly, is being perpetrated here?
I bet they roll down the windows when the car’s fan is on, too.
The fire risk barely makes the top 5 reasons
I would be more encouraged it the title said: “South Korea’s EV Sales Held Back by Drivers’ Awareness of EV Conceptual Idiocy”.
This channel is full of informative and entertaining criticisms of the Electric Vehicle scam. I believe he is a mechanical engineer, and knows well of what he speaks.
He has voiced the opinion that insurance costs (and the maintenance costs as well) will be the downfall of this generation of EVs.
Because it is going to happen. We had a fire in a hospital near me, in the underground parking garage due to a car parked down there, requiring the evacuation of the hospital.
I watched the news sites for weeks looking for a clue about the "car fire" to no avail. It was back around December 11th and every single article gave no details and that it is "under investigation".
And there is not a single article about it online after December 12th. Not a single one. Anywhere. Gee. One might think that results are being scrubbed from search engines, or that the authorities want to drag the investigation out far enough to where it is no longer news.
Nah. They would never do anything like that. Just wait until, as you speculate, an apartment building burns down and people die.
Missing from all of this are the cases of bike shop burndowns due to electric bikes. Can’t talk about that. Nope.
The doctor told me to walk more, anyway.
Good idea. Korea is surrounded on 3 sides by battery-affecting salt water. Totally incompatible with EV batteries.
thanks for that link- Good to have info that can be used to counter or point out the follies of the fool’s dream of EV’s everywhere
[[title said: “South Korea’s EV Sales Held Back by Drivers’ Awareness of EV Conceptual Idiocy”.]]
LOL- me too
Not an EV, but my new (to me) Hyundai has a battery made in (yuck!) Red China.
A perfectly rational fear.
The electric cars just need a “booster” battery...
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