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Are Electric Cars Safe to Be in During Thunderstorms?
Myself | 1-24-2023 | Me

Posted on 01/24/2023 4:21:16 PM PST by murron

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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Might be a good way to charge the batteries. the guberment will be telling everyone to install lightning rods.


21 posted on 01/24/2023 5:10:16 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: murron

First responders have been known to be electrocuted if the EV is in standing water. This was t case a few years ago but not sure how bad the situation is now.


22 posted on 01/24/2023 5:10:52 PM PST by excalibur21
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To: murron

No better, no worse.


23 posted on 01/24/2023 5:16:28 PM PST by bigbob
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To: Nifster
You are told that because of the four tires

The tires do nothing to protect you from lightning. Think of this: If lightning travels 1/2 to 1 mile just to hit your car, what is that last 6 inches worth?

Your car protects you because you are encased in a metal shell. The lightning conducts through and upon the outside of the shell rather than you.

24 posted on 01/24/2023 5:50:45 PM PST by GingisK
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To: murron
What scientific principle can you cite that would cause them to be them LESS safe in a thunderstorm than an ICE car?

It's a question born of ignorance. The protection an ICE car provides is that the chassis serves as a Faraday cage (No, it isn't the "rubber tires"). What is so different about a Tesla's chassis that it would fail to serve as a Faraday cage?

25 posted on 01/24/2023 6:01:55 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: murron

May be the quickest way to get them charged


26 posted on 01/24/2023 6:21:11 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: murron

I was in a car during the ‘80s that was struck by lightning. This was during the early days of processors in cars. The ‘check engine’ light came on, the car went into the limp home mode, and the park brake warning came on. There was no noticeable electrical discharge inside the car.

It was raining heavily, so I drove on until the rain stopped. Then, I pulled into a service station and shut the car off and restarted it. It ran OK, with no more warning lamps.

I would expect present cars to behave even better than this, even EVs.


27 posted on 01/24/2023 6:24:46 PM PST by norwaypinesavage (Once you predict children will no longer see snow, you can’t now claim snow proves you are right)
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To: George from New England

The horror movie Man Made Monster (1941) was the first featured role for Lon Chaney , in the year he later starred in the Wolf Man and later in the Mummy. There was a funny sequence in one of my favorite comedies The Owl and the Pussycat in which Barbara Streisand explains the plot to George Seagal. Actually accurate.

Synopsis:
Dynamo Dan, a sideshow worker who does a faked electrical act is the only survivor when a bus he’s on slams into a high tension tower and all the passengers are killed by the electricity. He becomes powerful and dangerous. He ends up working with Lionel Atwill a mad scientist trying to make electrified super humans.


28 posted on 01/24/2023 6:30:46 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Organic Panic
Its NOT, grounded by the tires.

If it was grounded, it would light up like a roman candle.

I saw the results of a dump truck that got the box caught on a power line. They were yelling at the driver to stay IN the truck until they could get the line de-energized. He jumped and got fried.

29 posted on 01/24/2023 6:35:08 PM PST by crz
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To: dangus

it is safe in a car not because the tires are an insulator, in fact at those high voltages they conduct quite well. The reason cars are safe is because the body acts like at
faradays cage, just like high tension powers are washed by a person from a helicopter wearing a metal mesh suit, it acts as faradays cage.


30 posted on 01/24/2023 6:41:03 PM PST by jimfr
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To: murron

I charged my Ioniq 5 during a severe thunderstorm last summer in Williams, Arizona. No problem.


31 posted on 01/24/2023 6:43:21 PM PST by willk (Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.i later)
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To: willk

Here, charge that MOFO off of one of these.
Watch the power cables on the left when it connects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmXzNMoea5E


32 posted on 01/24/2023 6:54:39 PM PST by crz
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To: murron

Electric, gas, diesel, or hydrogen: no “little” car is safe in any weather...


33 posted on 01/24/2023 7:06:01 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: crz

You’re right. I meant isolated from ground. My mistake. Thanks for catching it.


34 posted on 01/24/2023 7:24:01 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Organic Panic

When JH jumped he made the connection to the ground.

They said he would have had to jump over 20 feet to get clear of the charge.

All he had to do was stay put.

Was a hell of a good guy. Never a bad word against anybody.


35 posted on 01/24/2023 7:31:02 PM PST by crz
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To: dangus

The tires are not the reason a car is safe during a thunderstorm. That’s a misconception.


36 posted on 01/24/2023 8:14:01 PM PST by murron
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To: murron

How about just washing the car?
Headline: Entire family electrocuted washing their electric car.


37 posted on 01/25/2023 1:22:52 AM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: oldasrocks

I want to know how it operates on snow and ice.
Just can’t wrap my head around EVs.


38 posted on 01/30/2023 11:15:53 AM PST by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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