Electric Vehicles

You mean you learned it growing up . . .

 

https://www.maritimejournal.com/industry-news/ev-suspected-of-causing-container-fire/1488050.article



I wonder why Hybrid vehicles catch fire more frequently than gas or electric vehicles?

 

My only car fire was a 2016 Prius. It was caused by the engine block heater.

 

What makes hybrids more likely to catch fire the presence of gasoline or the presence of what ever chemistry the battery is made of?

 

https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-county-crash-stolen-vehicle-tesla/45538410

 

Dude we get your position.

Makes me want to buy an ev out of spite.

 

Out of spite? I do not sell gas vehicles.

 

I'll send you my referral link. We'll both get paid.

 

Pop! goes the bubble
https://www.autobodynews.com/gm-laying-off-workers-at-2-plants-self-driving-subsidiary.html

 

They have to find a way to get sale prices lower if they ever want the average Joe to buy any EV other than a Bolt or Model 3. Meanwhile Rivian is now selling their electric vans to people other than Amazon for the amazing price of $80-90K. Craziness.

 

I leased an EV recently and so far I am pretty impressed with it. It suits my driving needs very well as I only drive 5,000-6,500 miles a year. I charge every other week at the charging station and it’s free with the lease so…

All and all I’m locked in for 3 years and we will see how successful this ev push becomes. I have had my doubts but I am surprisingly satisfied.

I have some plans for a rental I have to convert it into a short term rental and a niche market might be to have the solar/ ev charger “green” aspect.

If you can’t beat them you might as well exploit them.

 

Which EV?

 

I grew up in Detroit, I’m a car guy, love the smell. But I’m digging these EV’s, some pretty cool options. Like solar charging, night time charging. They make great sense for vehicles that only get used for daytime operation.

 

Have you all seen this story of the million mile Tesla? That’s an insane amount of miles. Says the rear motor was replaced 13 times and the batteries 3 times.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/her...bility/?lid=xfclondtb3c4&eml=organic:eml:brz2

 

I think I read that the majority of car fires are due to vandalism, maybe the hoodlums target hybrids more

 

Am I reading that chart wrong? Looks like total fires for gasoline at 200k vs 16k for hybrid. And less than 100 for EV

 

VW ID.4 in preparation for the Buzz that’s due to come to the USA within a year.
They should sort out issues by year 2 so that would be in line for my lease to end and swap over to that one.

 

I haven't heard that most car fires come from vandalism, but if it is the vandals are focusing on hybrids and gas cars. I've personally seen a handful of car fires and they've always been gas cars on the roadside.

EV fires are so rare that every single one of them gets reported. Edit - everything else is a poorly reasoned response to a BS infographic. I go into more detail below.

If 52 is correct, that's one a week. And, if 199,533 is correct for gas fires that 546 per day! Think about it, in one day there are 10 times more gas car fires than an entire year's worth of EV fires. lol If the news reported that they would need a 24x7 gas car fire channel.