Posted on 08/08/2022 12:48:53 PM PDT by george76
School busses? Holy crap! I really hope we don’t have one of those catch fire with a load of kids!
We had a 3 family game here in n. California.
To be considered, you had to see and identify a Chevy Bolt.
I won with 2 Bolts versus 0 seen in 2 years by the other family members!
The contest died due to extreme Boredom.
Put the battery [smaller] on a trailer with a motor-gen set of small size [and a quick disconnect hitch].
Problem solved.
“...made from guess what.”
Flubber?
Note that Yale can’t fix New Haven.
“Not sure if lithium was discovered when I took chemistry.”
Known but very dangerous to let students play with in the school labs.
In HS we did get to play with Sodium. Fun times. A learning experience...
#4 There is a Chinese bus company called BYD that has bribed many politicians here in the USA like Gavin Newsom in California. When he was mayor of San Francisco the buses could not get up the hills and broke down many times.
Type in at Yahoo then go to Images: laptop battery swelling
Scary as that is a big fire soon to happen!
Do a search on cell phone battery fires and laptop battery fires
At the Help Desk I worked at we have many calls over the years.
I had a co-worker whose headset battery was swelling!
Now imagine the batteries swelling in a electric vehicle then WHOOSH!
Your home or apt and probably you too gone!
I had an iPhone battery expand until it pushed the screen off the Al case.
No heat nor fire though.
Installed a new battery and still works fine.
French electric cars
https://i.imgur.com/XABDHDr.png
About a decade ago we had a major overhaul done on our home.
Even then, the local nazis, who enforce local/California building codes were pushing to install solar crud when you had to replace your roof.
Our roofer was able to convince the inspector that by having our carport ready for solar but not yet installed he could get a waiver.
So we did it and our carport with the exception of the wiring/output connections is ready to have a solar system put on it.
A significant issue came up quickly. A neighbor had a similar garage roof like our carport. They had the same roofer install their new solar system. Then, they bought a hybrid and they soon discovered the solar system only worked during good daylight hours to recharge their battery. (duh)
Then, the vehicle could barely make it down and back home to the hospital and Outpatient clinic. A clinic they had to use often down and back without using gas,(24 mile round trip).
If they got back home at dark or before, they had to use PG&E to recharge their battery for the next day. The lady who owns the hybrid loves it. Her older husband hates it.
He doesn’t want to plan his life around a solar charging system to power his car.
I know nothing about these vehicles except after a good glass of wine, many of the local owners are not that happy about their EV’s.
Also, when a certain # of EV’s was reached on our culdesac, PG&E had to put in an extra power pole which almost ended up in my yard, before I said hell no!
My snotty neighbor had to have the pole set in his yard when I said no, to charge his second EV.
There, is apparently a waiting list to charge a new EV vehicle on our culdesac.
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