Posted on 08/03/2022 7:39:15 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods
“In ICE cars, you just need leak-tight fuel lines from the tank to the fuel injectors.”
Where do I find these injector thingies on my ‘69 Triumph Spitfire? Want to check them for safety.
“Rate” suggests fires per million cars. But the author doesn’t provide any detail or explanation.
yeah that is a huge drawback- Even batteries for say things like cameras, if left on chargers, catch fire- I never charge my batteries overnight for that reason-
Ping
Haven’t heard of too man reports on them catching fire- but I imagine we will start seeing a lot more the more vehicles are sold, and them ore they are used and charged- The following blurb i post thel ink to doesn’t state that folks aren’t usign heir electric cars as much as their IC cars- and likely aren’;t chargign them very often- just for aroudn town stuff=- - We dont’ see reports of IC cars burning because it’s not a big story- but they do catch on fire-
Here is the claim:
“Fully electric vehicles, on the other hand, were deemed far safer than both hybirds and gas cars; they are far less likely to catch fire, with just 25.1 fires per 100,000 sales. That’s compared to 3,474 hybrid fires and 1,529 ICE fires per 100,000 sales respectively.”
https://insideevs.com/news/561549/study-evs-smallest-fire-risk/
That is bit disingenuous, It’s listed by price it should be listed by amount of vehicles.🙄
The single lithium batteries they put in vaping pens sometimes still catch fire or explode.
Guess what happens when you link thousands of them and put them in a “battery pack” in a car or airplane?
Yep- they get blistering hot- that is another problem, tall dried out grass- folks park on lawns they don’t mow, which increases risk of fire-
the engine is in the rear of a corvair like the first volkswagen beetles...
the fuel tanks are in the front...
And this stupid administration wants me to waste $60-70,000.00, on something like this heap of junk? No way.
I do think that the EPa rule changes are making petroleum fuel vehicles more likely to catch fire.
I have noticed that modern vehicles when crashed seem to catch fire more often than they once did.
I am well aware that we have always had vehicle fires. A very nice and loved by all cousin died in a Ford Falcon crash after skidding off the road in a rain storm, many years ago.
Yet I still feel that we are seeing more now.
Turbos EGRs and manifolds are very hot on the late models.
Point being that statistics on vehicle fires will change and not represent an accurate picture of relative risk.
I ain’t never buying one....
The simple fact is that energy resents being confined and often fights back against the effort. The atom bomb was based on the principle of releasing energy from its captivity at the sub-atomic level and to catastrophic effect.
That’s the beauty of fossil fuels. Mother Nature already has taken the nuclear energy of the sun (delivered to earth in the form of sunlight), captured it and buried it in the earth where it was transformed into a relatively stable and energy-dense form. All at zero cost to whoever digs it up to use as fuel.
Many garages were “carriage houses” when the owners switched from horses to horseless carriages.
And they were built away from the house. My great grandfather had both and both were away from his house.
Used to play in both. The carriage house had wood floors while the garage was concrete.
Don't think you read that correctly. It's listed by number of sales.
FALSE
According to Google:
Most modern gasoline engines have a thermal efficiency of around 40%. That means that 40% of the energy created when its fuel is burned gets turned into motion.
Better.
That’s insane. And all 4 options are done using a fossil fueled power plant.
But, as long as the “pollution”’happens miles away at a power plant, all is good, right?
Oy Vey!!!!!!
And aside from what Massie told Mayor Pete, I remember reading something about the capacity of a standard residential electric panel, the need for some substantial & expensive upgrades and the inability of the power grid to supply the needed electricity.
You're not quite right. The batteries don't have to be exposed to oxygen - they contain their oxidizing element in the battery and can burn just fine in the absence of oxygen. Kind of like gunpowder, except reversible (unless they catch fire)
There’s more to the story I’d bet. Either the driver panicked and couldn’t get the safty belt off, the door locks malfunctioned or was disabled themselves.
I’d still would take my grandmother to the doctor in an ICE than an EV.
It’s not the engines, it’s the electronics that are catching fire. There are considerably more features on modern cars. All those bells and whistles require computers that have 24/7 trickle of power and wiring to every sensor and camera. All of it that is recording and storing data.
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