In a sane America, the Highway Traffic Safety Administration would order a recall.
But hey, collateral damage along the way to the Great Reset is just fine.
we are all waiting to hear what teslagator has to say
Rommel you magnificent bastard
1) They need to figure out how to protect the battery against salt water or any water.
2) We need a flood in California. /jk
EV fires will get the same treatment as the bird chopping wind turbines
if they dont report it, it does not happen
The media does like to mention that everyone of these fires amounts to a massive Chemical fire and spill. Very Toxic to the environment.
And just likes that ... Hunter Biden’s laptop was gone.
Hi.
state Fire Marshal Jim Patronis
Isn’t Patronis the Florida comptroller?
Right?
5.56mm
Note to Florida flood victims: Do not park your EV in the garage or near any structure.
The People demanding that only EVs be sold should have to live in an EV
YouTuber, Scotty Kilmer, got a question from someone whose ICE car was submerged up to the windows during the Florida flooding. The car starts and runs but is displaying several warning lights. Kilmer told him that sooner or later the car would fail because of the computers being flooded. But he could drive it until it failed and driving might prolong its life, a little. But he should file his claim and start looking for a new car.
But no warning about parking the car well away from the house or the car spontaneously catching fire and destroying itself and anything nearby.
Gotta crack a few eggs to make an omelet. 🤣
I’ve posted on the fire dangers of certain battery types in the past and I always get a bunch of blowback that gas cars can catch fire too. But I think the risk factors are different. Your cell phone is pretty safe because it is small. If there were lots of battery cells on top of one another, as they must be in a car battery then the risks multiply. One cell starts to overheat and the cells next to it overheat as well. As they heat each other you end up with a cascade effect. The phone can probably detect this but the overall charge on the car battery may be low, so the charger won’t know the battery has a problem and will keep charging. (This is probably not true for all types of car battery packs as some likely have sensors, but the risk is still not zero.) Then there’s getting water in the battery pack which will likely short one or more cells causing a cascade. Then there’s condensation because air gets in as the batteries are likely vented. There are probably more fires in, say, Florida than in super dry places.
I’m astonished that insurance companies aren’t cancelling policies like they have been doing for solar cells on rooftops. Probably a lot of them are on board the global climate change train but if they start to take a lot of losses, they will get off the train and then people will start losing their insurance or car fires destroying houses will be a special clause limiting claims. Once that happens people will be disincentivized to buy battery cars.
Also, I’d like to know how many people have only electric cars as their only transportation. The number one factor for people dumping their electric car was they only had the one car. The second factor was a long daily commute. If people only have the electric car as their second car, then it’s just a very expensive social statement.
The media is not going to report on it. Unlike what they did for the Pinto shortly after I bought one.
EVs are the pitbull of cars.
““Electric vehicles are catching on fire due to electrical system failure caused by saltwater storm surge from Hurricane Ian...”
Do any states still use salt on the roads in winter? What’s that going to do to things?
It’s a really big problem except for only one thing, and that is that there is only a single instance of an electric vehicle burning after the hurricane. One example repeated dozens of times. Anecdotally it means that it is coincidental with the hurricane.
Oh wait. They should be parked outside just in case they catch fire.
Decisions. Decisions.
Bump