Belgium's ports drowning under glut of Chinese electric cars: 'Some are parked here for a year, sometimes more'

Le Monde ^ | May 4, 2024 | Jean-Pierre Stroobants

[Tell It Right]

Don't be surprised if in the near future, there are a significant number of EV owners who are conservative/libertarian with a bit of a prepper mindset. At least here in the south where some of us can meet most of our power needs with solar. It's why one of our cars is an EV (the main one we drive in).

I simply can't drill my own oil and refine it into gas (to fuel a gas car and be mostly self-reliant with my transportation) like I can produce power to charge our EV. Of all the miles we drove it in the past 12 months, 15K of them were charged at home. Of all the power my home needed in the past 12 months (including charging the EV), 80% of it was homemade power (the other 20% had to be pulled from the grid).

If I'm right that the Dims will keep pushing their warmageddon cult to use their energy policies to slowly control us more and more with energy price inflation and regulating how much access we each have, then those of us unhappy with government control will be making ourselves less dependent on the public energy market. Put another way, think prepping, not for total collapse of society (like surviving in a Mad Max movie with a year supply of food and such), but against the slow boil killing the frog by making us chose more and more to give up our freedoms to enjoy the comforts in life.

[Jacquerie]

<>The batteries are sealed.<>

Apparently, they are inadequately sealed.

From August 2023:

Floridians battered by Hurricane Idalia this week may not have expected another threat — that floodwaters could cause their cars to suddenly burst into flames.

Yet that's exactly what happened when two electric vehicles caught fire after being submerged in saltwater churned up by the storm. Firefighters in Palm Harbor, Florida, cited the incidents, both of which involved Teslas, in warning owners that their rechargeable car batteries could combust if exposed to saltwater.

Fires can ignite weeks after flooding.

Electric vehicles exposed to saltwater can burst into flames.

Oh.

[TexasGator]

“Apparently, they are inadequately sealed.”

The government bought a bunch of submerged Teslas and tore them apart. Water intrusion into the battery compartment was due to failed seal due to design and installation problems,

[Lurker]

There’s a huge difference between trolling and making an astute observation.

For the record I did the latter.

L

[TexasGator]

How many years have you been trolling me?

[Lurker]

Once again, it’s not a troll.

It’s an observation.

L

[TexasGator]

you ducked the question ...

[Lurker]

No, I did not.

L

[Svartalfiar]

That morning, as the sun unexpectedly lit up the maze of highways leading to this remote arm of the port of Antwerp, Belgium,

What? Do they not normally get the sun every morning in Belgium...?

[Red Badger]

No....................😎