Posted on 10/11/2024 8:06:02 AM PDT by george76
After Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida on Wednesday, Sunshine State residents who own electric vehicles have been urged to be cautious.
Ahead of Milton, one county that was in the hurricane’s path, Hillsborough County, said Monday EV owners in flood zones “should move their vehicles away from flood areas and storm surge” and noted storm surge and flooding can “pose a potential risk to lithium-ion batteries and could lead to fires.” It shared a county webpage about electric vehicle hurricane safety.
EVs left behind during hurricanes should not be plugged into charging stations or parked in garages because of the potential fire hazard that batteries flooded with saltwater could pose, according to Hillsborough County’s website.
It advised keeping electric vehicles 50 feet away from buildings and other cars.
Florida CFO and State Fire Marshal Jimmy Patronis on Monday also issued a fire safety alert about lithium-ion batteries, EVs and the hurricane.
“After the storm, if you do have an EV that has been flooded by saltwater and it remains in your garage or near your home, please remove it immediately to a safe location so that you can worry about fixing your home instead of rebuilding it due to fire,”..
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EV owners should not operate their vehicles if they have been damaged by flooding, nor should they charge them
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if electric vehicles are damaged by flooding, vehicle owners should follow instructions from the manufacturer and open vehicle windows and doors to “allow any potentially flammable gasses to vent.”
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EV owners need to see their doctor about getting a cranialanalectomy. They'll need one before buying another electric car.
Don’t get them wet. They might explode.
What tiny bit of latent confidence I might have had in government mandates and current technology... is gone.
Have your POS electric car towed to the junk yard because the battery is destroyed. Then go buy another one for $100K if you are stupid enough to do so.
I’m still trying to figure out why auto insurance carriers even cover these ticking time bombs.
Or why homeowners insurance carriers cover someone that owns one.
Fire Hazard: Norwegian shipping company bans Electric cars on ferries. EV lithium-ion batteries can propagate fires
I hear most junk yards won’t even accept ‘em for this very reason.
I wouldn’t have one of those POSs if it was given to me.
Did you see that - Felicity Ace, carrying ~4,000 vehicles including Porsches, Audis and Bentleys, electric cars with lithium-ion batteries, caught fire in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean .. then it sank..
The lithium-ion batteries burned for ~ two weeks after the crew was safely evacuated from the smoking hulk of the Felicity Ace..
Instead of plugging your EV in, maybe you could outfit it with a tank of some sort that holds a stable fuel.
with 3 million without power, not too much worry about plugging saltwater-logged EVs in ...
“Have your POS electric car towed to the junk yard”
i think the problem there is to find a junkyard willing to accept a time-bomb onto their lot ...
What would I do if I owned an EV in central Florida with a hurricane coming ?
Move it ?...to where ?
EV ownership there almost requires an out of state evacuation. ....which wasn’t part of the sales pitch.
There was a company smuggly converting ICE muscle cars into EV’s. I suspect they will not get many orders from Floridians.
You can convert ICE cars to EVs but can you convert EVs into ICE cars ?LOL
“Fire Hazard: Norwegian shipping company bans Electric cars on ferries.”
keep in mind that the USPS has pictorial posters in very post office that specifically forbid mailing anything that includes lithium batteries ...
[and interestingly enough a google search of “usps items that cannot be mailed” produces an “AI” search result at the top of the search page that specifically OMITS lithium batteries from the prohibited list! ... i wonder why ... well, not really ...]
https://www.google.com/search?q=usps+items+that+cannot+be+mailed
vs
https://www.usps.com/ship/shipping-restrictions.htm
“I’m still trying to figure out why auto insurance carriers even cover these ticking time bombs.”
apparently Geigo quit covering cybertrucks ...
I believe those two things are going to be a huge factor in the collapse of this “technology”.
Auto insurers won’t insure them except at exorbitant prices, and homeowners won’t insure you if you own one, especially if you park it in the attached garage.
I also foresee that ferries won’t allow you on board, and you won’t be able to park in parking garages.
Unless the government FORCES them to do all these things, which...it might.
Potential fire hazard. What a selling point.
Remember what a can of Coke can to do a computer keyboard? What do you think an ocean full of salt water can do to a submerged electric car? Or a gas car with any electronics...
I was in the North Carolina disaster zone when Helene hit. My car is not an EV. I keep it filled with gas. I used the gas sparingly. When the roads finally opened, I was able to leave the disaster zone. I’m glad I did not have an EV.
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