Posted on 11/10/2022 12:20:53 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Twenty people were evacuated Wednesday night from Hanegev Street in the northern city of Haifa, after a fire broke out in the courtyard of a residential building, Behadrey Haredim reported.
The initial report claimed that the fire was in the building itself, but upon firefighters' arrival at the scene, it became clear that the blaze was in the courtyard, and not in an apartment.
Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics provided medical care to 20 victims. Eighteen of the victims had suffered mild injuries, while the other two were moderately injured, all of them from smoke inhalation.
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A fire investigator who arrived at the scene believes that the blaze was sparked by an electric bicycle's lithium battery, Behadrey Haredim noted.
Israel's Fire and Rescue Services said, "Recently, we have seen many especially serious instances of fires which break out due to the litihium batteries of electric vehicles."
"Lithium batteries are dangerous. Please use only the original batteries, try to store them outside your home, and while charging, do not leave them unsupervised. Protect your lives."
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
and this is what they want the masses to use for transportation.
Wait till everyone is required to drive an electric vehicle. One battery fire and it will spread to the other cars like dominoes, eventually burning whole city blocks.
How much carbon and other greenhouse gases does an exploding / burning lithium battery release into the atmosphere?
Just the other day, there was a woman rescued from a high rise apartment building that caught fire because of a lithium battery fire from a electric bike.
What is the equivalent number of gasoline cars on the highway as compared to the greenhouse gases / carbon released into the atmosphere from the lithium battery fire and the burning high rise apartment building?
Not to mention the process of mining and manufacturing and the damage to the planet that mining does.
The covid handling was never about the virus.
Climate change is not about the climate/earth.
The issue is never the issue. There’s only the revolution. They want global communism of the China variety.
BAN them all!!!!
My bicycle travels four days to work and home before I recharge it. About 25 MPH. About 35 miles between charges. Of course rainy days is a no-go and if the temperature is below freezing, forget it. 48 volts and it takes about six hours to recharge. That’s a lot of DC Amps stored in that thing.
Horses are intelligent and often friendly, especially if you treat them right. They produce fertilizer for the garden. And they never, ever explode.
So we get to live on the edge and get a cheap adrenaline rush every time we walk past one of these thngs ... for now.
>Wait till everyone is required to drive an electric vehicle.
By educated estimates, that will never happen. There’s not enough lithium (or copper for that matter) on the planet. Take an hour, watch this presentation by a PhD mining engineer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBVmnKuBocc
“sparked by an electric bicycle’s lithium battery...”
Good thing there wasn’t a electric car charging in the courtyard, might have taken out the whole neighborhood!
EV buyers should automatically get handicap plates
I got electric bikes for my wife and I, and they are hugely fun. We don’t go on the road much with them and spend our time on bike trails, and if I am miserly with use of pedal assist I can get maybe 25-30 miles on a battery, though I 3D printed a battery holder and carry two extra ones when we ride...just in case!
That said, they are for fun. It isn’t something I would use for anything serious unless I had zero choice. If I could ride it to work on a safe bike path, I would in warm weather, just for fun.
And I am damn careful with those batteries, too. I don’t leave them charging when I am not home or overnight if I can remember to unplug them. Don’t trust that at all.
But damn. Cars? Trucks? Planes? This is profound stupidity.
We have a Freeper who pooh-poohed electric vehicle fires by saying fires happen with ice vehicles, too.
And that is true.
But a search tells you there are a billion cars on earth today, and out of those, there are 5-10 million electric vehicles, probably counting busses and trolleys that use overhead electric wires.
Just imagine how many fires would happen if there were a billion EV on the road.
true
the whole point of evs is to ban gas cars
but once that happens it will be shut up and get on the bus
>the whole point of evs is to ban gas cars
Yes, it’s all about control.
The aforementioned presentation estimates the total amount of various metals required to complete the transition from oil to a “hydrogen economy”. He also estimates the amount of time required to mine the materials at the 2019 rates. It’s an engineering feasibility study, something which clearly has not been done by the Greenies. His work is undergoing peer review now.
Let’s just say if he’s even 50% correct, it’s very, very grim.
Y’all should watch it.
Go green, get blown to smithereens.
Demolition Derby action would be fun to watch (as in road rage incidents). I used to watch my friends compete in demolition derbies where the goal was to keep your vehicle moving after smashing into other vehicles. I imagine you would get one try with an EV.
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