[Political Junkie Too]

And it turns out that EVs and salt water don’t get along. In fact, that combination can cause the EV’s batteries to explode into flames.

That's what I said on the thread about the car-carrier ship that caught on fire back in August.

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Salt water is a massive conductor of electricity.

Is transporting 500 electric vehicles with their lithium ion batteries at sea with the salty sea air and dampness and water everywhere really a good idea?

Is it possible that the salt water can cause a short somewhere in the EV that causes the battery to overheat until it catches on fire?

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-PJ

[CFW]

“Salt water is a massive conductor of electricity.”

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I remember that from middle school science classes. The EV supporters apparently forgot that lesson. How are EVs to be functional for long periods of time near the coast or in areas in the north when salt is regularly applied on the roadways?

EV owners would never know when sufficient salt had built up on the vehicle’s batteries to cause a fire. Since the entire lower part of the EV vehicle is pretty much part of the battery, you would have to daily wash off the entire vehicle.

[Your EV might look like a normal sedan or SUV from the outside. But underneath the floor of your car is an approximately 900-pound battery block containing materials that have been mined from the ground, sent around the world and put through complex chemical processing to fuel your ride from point A to point B]