Hyundai Kona EV exploded in a garage, blowing the door off
| Jul 27 2019 - 2:17 pm PTHyundai Kona EV exploded in a garage, blowing the door off
| Jul 27 2019 - 2:17 pm PTPosted on 07/07/2023 1:10:17 AM PDT by Libloather
Electric car owners face soaring insurance and repair costs over fears the vehicles could explode after being in even minor collisions.
Damaged EVs must be 'quarantined' 15 metres apart from other cars in repair shops due to the risk of battery fires under government guidelines – driving up the price for mechanics and insurers.
A lack of suitable repair shops and EV trained mechanics risks increasing costs to the insurance industry by more than £600million, which could be passed on to drivers.
As more battery-powered vehicles take to the road insurers will need to spend an additional £900million per year, adding £20 per year to all car insurance premiums, according to a report by automotive risk firm Thatcham Research.
This is likely to rise to £28 by 2050 when there will be an expected 360,000 EVs on the roads, the report revealed. The batteries in electric vehicles can be extremely sensitive and what might be a harmless blow to a petrol car can write-off an EV. There are also risks when they catch fire as they can burn for days.
The Daily Mail has launched a campaign calling on ministers to rethink the 2030 ban on sales of new petrol and diesel cars, which is designed to turbocharge the switch to EVs and aid efforts to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
The report found last year 9,400 EVs were potentially involved in crashes resulting in batteries needing repair, but this could rise to 260,000 by 2035. It said insurers and mechanics need to rapidly adapt to EVs to avoid the risk that the cars are only available to the rich.
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>> the goal of banning gas cars is to put everyone on a bus <<
BING! BING! BING! We have a winner! And electric cars will be easier to demonize once they’re dominant because there will be no tradition of ‘acceptable risk.’ Conservatives who spread paranoia about electric cars are really just helping this along.
[[I’ve done something similar. When my wife went into labor, I left the keys in the ignition and then briefly panicked when the car engine wouldn’t turn over until I realized it was already running.]]
LOL- ive done that many times- having a tired mind and all-
Easy. No sane mechanic will work on the things. Let the EV worshippers go to the dealer and spend $500 an hour plus $1000 a day storage fee. These stupid cars are disposable. The battery tech will MAYBE last 8 years. My old beater is 22 years old now and still only needs the usual consumable and oil changes. After 22 years one would have already been forced to buy 3 EVs. And wait until everyone is charged a “recycling fee” that costs more than the batteries do.
Good times...
Perhaps, we should ask China which makes EVs, registers and licenses them - then parks them, nose to nose, side by side, in lots of 10,000, leaving them to rot, and thus boosting their ‘production’ numbers.
>> LOL- ive done that many times- having a tired mind and all- <<
Me: No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! I AM NOT getting in a taxi cab with a pregnant wife! I’ve seen too many sitcoms!
My old beater is 22 years old now and still only needs the usual consumable and oil changes. After 22 years one would have already been forced to buy 3 EVs. And wait until everyone is charged a “recycling fee” that costs more than the batteries do.
Good times...
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Agree 1000%. 1984 Chevy C10, 1999 Chevy Express conversion van, 2001 Lincoln Town Car. Wife-mobile is a 2016 Toyota Corolla got when she retired....only car we ever bought “new” in 30+ years of marriage. The Corolla eats front struts if you live in a rural area and drive gravel/dirt roads regularly.
A bonus on EV’s: wait until they are banned from public parking garages due to structural damage(weigh too much) and risk of collapsing a garage.
The biggest REAL problem with Teslas are the fact that you cannot simply replace a battery cell. I’ve has 3 Priuses make it past 15 years. (I’ve sold 2 of them in fine working condition.) The batteries haven’t needed replacing, but individual cells in the batteries have. It’s pretty inexpensive, actually. But I understand you can’t do that with a Tesla.
I gather it’s no coincidence you say ‘MAYBE eight years,’ since that’s exactly how old the oldest Teslas are... AND how long the batteries are guaranteed to last. What you therefore SHOULD say is “AT LEAST eight years.”
>> After 22 years one would have already been forced to buy 3 EVs. And wait until everyone is charged a “recycling fee” that costs more than the batteries do. <<
Since each EV is GUARANTEED to last EIGHT years, that makes no sense at all.
It’s impossible to find out how many Teslas last 22 years because they’ve only been made for 16 years. But we do know that the average Tesla Roadster is 13 years old, and 61% are still in service. We also know that, as one should absolutely expect, Tesla reliability has improved over the years. The original Tesla Roadsters were “bleeding edge” technology that bled less than average.
Of course, some will claim that it’s not fair to base comparisons on a $100,000 car. OK. So the best data we have for Tesla Models S, X and Y comes from resale value. At this, Tesla is simply downright FANTASTIC. But again, SOME of this comes from the unmet demand for Teslas.
So the truth is we don’t really know how durable Teslas will prove to be, but the early indications are that they will be INCREDIBLY durable compared to regular cars.
We’ve all seen videos of intensely burning EVs. Now imagine passengers trapped in a wrecked EV that starts burning.
It’s only a matter of time.
EV vehicles are the dumbest idea of the century.
Broken on every level.
Eventually, you’re not going to be able to park them in public garages, because they are simply time bombs waiting to go off.
| Jul 27 2019 - 2:17 pm PT | Jul 27 2019 - 2:17 pm PT
It’s the kind of blaze that veteran Chief Palmer Buck of The Woodlands Township Fire Department in suburban Houston compared to “a trick birthday candle.”
On April 17, when firefighters responded to a 911 call at around 9:30 p.m., they came upon a Tesla Model S that had crashed, killing two people, and was now on fire.
This month, two reports of Hyundai Kona EVs spontaneously bursting into flames have emerged, one from South Korea and the other from Norway
Last year, Hyundai had issued a worldwide recall for the Kona EV, involving almost 77,000 units of the electric SUV. The recall was due to a fire hazard, and the manufacture replaced batteries and related components on the affected cars. However, the woes don’t seem to have ended there, as more reports of Kona EVs spontaneously combusting are emerging internationally. On June 18, a Hyundai Kona EV went up in flames unprompted in Boryeong, South Korea. As per local news reports, the vehicle was parked and not plugged into a charger when the fire started. Hyundai and LG Energy Solution have stated that they are investigating the cause of the fire, together with Korea Automobile Testing & Research Institute (KATRI).
Read more at: https://gaadiwaadi.com/two-more-hyundai-kona-evs-burst-into-flames-raise-concerns/
LOL- Yep- the one on everybody loves Ramon was hilarious!
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