Jimmy Patronis sounds alarms on dangerous mix of electric cars, storm surge (Florida Chief Financial Officer and state Fire Marshal)

Florida Politics ^ | October 9th 2022 | Jacob Ogles

[Paladin2]

Fla. Man needs EVs designed more like this:

[Da Coyote]

As great as the potential of electric cars may be, always remember that if the left wants them, the desire is NOT based on science.

[ifinnegan]

Florida should ban electric cars.

That’d be funny.

[minnesota_bound]

Not a problem as there is hardly any salt water near the USA.
Insurance will not insure if everytime an electric vehicle gets wet that it is a total loss.

[Lockbox]

There was a white paper on the hazardous airborne material from EV fires the covered firefighters’ fire suits that was not being addressed..

[Karoo]

All that pollution to the air. Yuck

[Openurmind]

Doesn’t matter, they don’t care. all part of the plan. Human life is expendable.

[Lean-Right]

Going to be interesting when all the gulf
states ban electrics.
I’d also be curious how salted roads in
states of colder climates affect batteries
as well.

[Senator Goldwater]

Outlaw them.

And watch the Left collapse on itself like a dying star.

[Jacquerie]

Hmmm. Salty slush frozen to the battery undercarriage.

What could go wrong?

[rollo tomasi]

Electric cars are a niche, nothing more. Anything more than a niche becomes a totalitarian nightmare devoid of any risk management analyses.

[Joe Brower]

Sounds like the engineers who designed and built these electric cars didn't think everything through.

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[jdsteel]

And everyone should keep an eye out for waterlogged gasoline cars being sold as well.

That’s not pretty, either.

[citizen]

Very interesting and worrisome point re RV batteries >> Wet, salty roads because of salted roadways in winter.

Our resident battery brains will probably tell us "Not a problem."

[duckman]

EV autos will become the world’s largest paper weights. IMHO

[Chgogal]

EVs are not Green.

[roving]

Saw a video of a guy take a regular Lithium battery apart and throw it in some water. It went boom

[Jacquerie]

No doubt. There’s no free lunch.

I used to charge my phone and tools overnight.

No more.

No way I’d leave an EV charging overnight in my garage.

[chiller]

There’s plenty of salt water where most people live.

I wonder if salt air has any effect ?