Posted on 11/20/2022 11:47:11 AM PST by Impala64ssa
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Anything concerning electric cars can be shocking.
Watt?
Could I have the summary, rather than being forced to watch a Youtube video?
I watch Scotty’s videos a lot. I just read his net worth is about $11M.
Not bad for a grease monkey.
“This could turn out to be a bigger fiasco than the exploding Ford Pintos. “
What fiasco are you referring to?
What study is the headline referring to?
Salt water + Lithium = Big FIRE!
Ohm quit resisting!
Lol…that’s hilarious!
This means if a hurricane is coming and there might be storm surge, you need to drive it far inland. Also, if you take your car to the beach, make sure you pay attention too when high tide is and keep your car away from the waterline.
That's the summary and now you don't have to listen to ten minutes of Scotty Kilmer's annoying voice as he lectures you about cars while making sure you know that he, Scotty, knows everything there is to know about cars...and more.
The NHSTA (National Highway Safety Administration) study they reference stated that any electric car subjected to water damage should be kept 50 feet away from anything that can catch fire, such as houses and other cars.
Probably should have said “people” too.
They talked about how the damaged batteries can spontaneously combust, and even after “extinguished” can keep spontaneously re-combusting. They had a Fire Chief talking about one that kept re-combusting, and re-combusted even as it was being towed away.
I know...I laugh every time I see it!
Real green, real green. We’ve been conned, green energy is for the conmen and the rich.
https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/tesla-fireball-gallons-water
CoupFlu deaths from lack of care, the wrong care, the vaxxes, were a preview of coming attractions.
And I’ll bet NONE of this shocks insiders.
They likely knew and/or suspected.
And didn’t give a damn.
Did he mention road salt?
Lots of cars up north used to have corroded quarter panels and eat it’s way to it’s innards.
Wonder what that would do to Tesla’s?
I have to wonder if there will end up being a problem up north with salt on the roads and its natural corrosion. Or just living near a warm coastline. I’ve seen some incredible rust issues on vehicles that were only a few years old.
This situation is called listening to a bunch of moron greenies and not considering the next level of detail.
Ford Pintos were not that dangerous. Two young women, girls really, were in a Pinto entering the Pennsylvania Turnpike in front of a cement truck. The inexperienced driver pulled in front of the truck and was rear-ended. The Pinto caught fire, unsurprisingly and both women were killed.
In the resulting lawsuit, during discovery, the plaintiffs’ lawyers found an internal Ford Motor Company memo that stated that a flexible filler tube for Pinto gas tank would add $10 to the production cost, but that the additional liability associated with lawsuits would cost less if a rigid filler were used. This was when $10 was worth something, and the Japanese were handing Detroit their lunch on price.
It is unlikely these individuals would have survived regardless of the filler tube used, but the apparent callousness, and sympathetic victims, young white women, so enraged (or should I say inflamed?) the jury that Ford was hors d’oeuvres in any lawsuit wherein a Pinto had caught fire, and the passengers were injured.
In fact, the Pinto did not have a particularly poor safety record for a subcompact car, but its reputation never recovered from that publicity.
Thank you, FRiend!
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