“Salt water is a massive conductor of electricity.”
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]
Decorated by Napoleon Bonaparte for the invention of the electric battery, the Italian Alessandro Volta (February 18, 1745 – March 5, 1827) did not always have the support of the international community. The physicist showed that it was not the bodies of animals but rather the contact of two metals that produced an electric current, a then-revolutionary idea that overturned previous theories and provoked bitter controversy among scientists of the era.
One of my cousins had to urinate many years ago. there was a partially downed fence in a hunting field. And he wet on a still live wire....his dad took him to the doctor, ensuring there was no permanent damage. That story has been told over and over.
-PJ