Posted on 04/18/2011 10:46:22 PM PDT by smokingfrog
BARKHAMSTED,Conn. -- A hybrid electric Chevrolet Volt believed to have sparked an overnight blaze in a garage in Barkhamsted last week, reignited again on Monday.
The state fire marshal's office is investigating how the electric car parked at a Center Hill Road home caught fire Monday morning.
Last week, homeowners Storm Connors and his wife, Dee, woke up to the sound of a smoke alarm around 4 a.m.
The couple's garage, where they parked their new Chevrolet Volt hybrid, was on fire. Firefighters were able to put out the blaze. A firewall built between the home and the garage saved their home.
Investigators with the state fire marshal's office and the couple's insurance company, at the time, suspected the hybrid car have had something to do with the blaze.
On Monday morning, firefighters were called back to the home when the car caught fire again.
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The Pius and the Honda thing seem to do OK.
I drove a Pinto for 100,000 miles back in the 70’s. It was my first car, delivered for about $2000. I had the 2000cc german engine, which delivered good performance, although I couldn’t keep up with a VW over washboard gravel roads with my leafspring suspension.
It had a monocoque construction, i.e. no frame, and it’s vulnerability in a collision was obvious. The rack and pinion steering allowed me to avoid two death-dealers, that I can recall. Anyway, I survived and I loved every minute of it.
Wait until this is offered as a grand prize on game shows.
Unless it already has.
Excellent idea! Like the American Ronson tank in Germany.
Heheh, there ya go! Good idea!
I will bet a $100 that is the first time in history that a Pinto owner ever uttered that phrase. LOL
The large current draw of these rechargeable hybrids is surely going to bring on a spate of these fires in poorly wired garages. (Do they need 240v outlets? At least those usually require the attention of an electrician. I shudder to think of plugging a Volt into an overhead light fixture or such.)
I have to suppose you are wrong on this piece of evidence: The 2000cc Pinto came to dominate the “2 wheel race” and in fact transformed it. Previously, the winner was the one who could go the farthest on two wheels ( i.e. on one side of the car ) around a track. With the Pinto, they could continue indefinitely, so the event became a timed race for 2 laps or so. I have to assume that these guys loved their Pintos.
I must be reminiscing about KISS: I read “Eric Carr catches fire again.”
Don’t ask me why I felt the need to share that.
They’d probably sell more.
According to another report, fire investigators were actually on scene when it reignited - and nobody was near it.
According to another report, it was not plugged in for the second fire.
I thought you needed to have 240v in your garage, which most people have to put in special as I don’t think it is standard circuitry in most garages. If it isn’t some kind of fraud, sounds like he has a hot lemon.
They need to send it back to GM for revolting.
Looks like a wildfire hazard in the making there. Nasty looking smoke too. That has to be worse than CO2.
How about the Chevy Shortz?
sounds like we need to give GM a dozen or so more billion dollars so the union workers can improve on this and we can Win The Future!
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