[Red Badger]

There’s no indication of the make or model of the Danish EV that died by toaster, but statistically speaking it probably wouldn’t have burned down had it not been for the incorrectly used small appliances. While EVs do work better with warm batteries, it just isn’t worth the risk to try warming them with anything other than parking them in a garage. The battery will still function cold, albeit with reduced range.

[Steely Tom]

Toasters apparently get a little too warm and can set the car on fire.

Learn something every day.

[Jamestown1630]

Didn’t people sometimes use incandescent light bulbs for this?

[TexasGator]

The battery iz climate controlled by onboard systems.

[Cautious Optimism]

I think it was said by Albert Einstein when asked about the difference between genius and stupidity. He said
(paraphrasing) “ Genius has it’s limitations whereas human stupidity has no bounds and is infinite.”

[T.B. Yoits]

[Revel]

That’s around a kilowatt hour of electricity every hour. Ev’s are so efficient.

[posterchild]

Why would someone use a plug in toaster when propane soldering torches are cheap and portable?

[lee martell]

“Just asking for a friend!”

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

What do you want to bet that in China, North Korea, etc they force slaves to use their body heat to warm the EV batteries of the elite tyrants. If the battery leaks, fails, burns......well......there are always more slaves in the workers paradise.

[RetiredTexasVet]

If they were dumb enough to buy an EV then I’m not surprised that they tried to warm it up with a toaster ... actually I’m surprised they didn’t try a flamethrower or propane torch.

[moovova]

I just throw my battery in the microwave. Does the trick every time.

[fruser1]

There’s something to be said for large women.

[cyclotic]

I don’t buy the explanation. Toasters don’t get that hot outside the heating elements.

I know people who have thawed frozen cars with a charcoal fire under the engine.

[CommerceComet]

When we were cleaning out my late mother’s house, we found a photograph of a late 1950s car that had been devoured by flames and a newspaper article about it. Seems the gas lines in my stepfather’s car had frozen and he put a space heater in the engine compartment to thaw them. He achieved his objective but not in a good way. The strange thing is that the newspaper article still existed. Had that happened to me, the newspaper article, photograph, and all other memories of that event would have “disappeared” and I would have never mentioned it.

[citizen]

He must have used a toaster OVEN. Pop-up toasters pop & stop, unless his was defective.

[simpson96]