Posted on 10/06/2022 3:34:09 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
A top Florida state official warned Thursday that firefighters have battled a number of fires caused by electric vehicle (EV) batteries waterlogged from Hurricane Ian.
EV batteries that have been waterlogged in the wake of the hurricane are at risk of corrosion, which could lead to unexpected fires, according to Jimmy Patronis, the state's top financial officer and fire marshal.
"There’s a ton of EVs disabled from Ian. As those batteries corrode, fires start," Patronis tweeted Thursday. "That’s a new challenge that our firefighters haven’t faced before. At least on this kind of scale."
"It takes special training and understanding of EVs to ensure these fires are put out quickly and safely," he continued in a follow-up tweet. "Thanks to [North Collier Fire Rescue] for their hard work."
Patronis published a video of firefighters in Naples, Florida, battling a fire started from a Tesla EV's battery. A bystander is overheard in the video saying that the crew had used hundreds of gallons of water attempting to put the fire out.
Last week, Hurricane Ian pummeled cities along Florida's west coast including Naples and Fort Myers, making landfall as a Category 4 storm. The hurricane caused more than 100 deaths and over a million residents to lose power.
It is unclear how many EVs were impacted or destroyed by the storm.
Meanwhile, consumers are increasingly turning to EVs as the Biden administration continues to push a green transition involving zero-emission cars.
Between April and June, EVs accounted for 5.6% of new car purchases in the U.S., up slightly from the first three months of 2022, according to Kelley Blue Book.
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“174,000 is 476 vehicle fires per day all year long”
With close to 300,000,000 ICE vehicles
operating on America’s roads, the number
you quote is a pretty low percentage.
The majority of ICE vehicle fires are
caused from vehicle crashes and an
exploding battery, or direct shorting
and sparks catching fuel leaks on fire.
After enough years of Biden, the Third World will be a step up.
Where do you dispose of 50,000 deadly polluting EVs?
Then there was the guy in Finland who needed a new battery for his Tesla.
When he learned it would cost $25,000, he set the car on fire and posted it on YouTube.
The video went viral, so the Finnish man probably made a tidy sum.
Ping.
guy who had a car-boat....
Wonder if the mechanic couldn’t stop from saying “engine’s flooded” and then laughed?
“this is not about EVs
it is about control”
Exactly. Good reason to be very suspicious of EV fluffers on FR.
Hey, being an EV fluffer is hard work. Got to prop up your narrative however you can.
EV propagandists don’t have facts on their side. So what can they do? Lie. They claim CO2 is a pollutant. Lie. They say humans are causing global warming. Lie. They say EVs are zero emissions. Lie. They say EVs are less taxing on the environment (whatever that means). Lie. They say so-called “renewable energy” doesn’t pollute. Lie. Etc.
Fair enough...
Thanks for the mention. I think folks have a pretty good
beef here.
I’ll be glad when they have perfected the sodium chloride
replacement for Lithium.
Somewhere on this thread I linked a place where the
numbers of fires per 100,000 sold vehicles was provided.
That took care of the lopsided numbers.
But were they SPONTANEOUS fires?
Fuel leaks and the like are rather spontaneous also.
The lithium chemistry, with H2O, provides it's own O2. Ambient O2 is irrelevant.
LOL
Be careful of online sources for “facts.” Be cautious regarding information, in this case about EVs, if the source is an EV friendly group. It’s awfully easy for a zealot to skew website information in a way that pleases them.
I predicted this the first time I saw the surge going through towns. I’m not sure I’d want to wait around INSIDE an EV waiting for assistance. Bzzztttt….
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