Yes they doBut those lithium batteries burn like a son of a gun, though...
Yes they doBut those lithium batteries burn like a son of a gun, though...
1. For most drivers, an EV is already enough.
For decades, various pundits have forecast sky-high gas prices that would force people into EVs. ....
Meh.
One Tesla catching fire or electrocuting someone would be national news.
Every year about 171,500 petrol-powered autos catch fire in the US.
That's one every 184 seconds.
https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/v19i2.pdf
HKS
Keep in mind that it's not all wind and solar. We moved less than a year ago from the PNW and much of our electricity came from hydro sources. And it was nice and cheap, too. We were paying .07/kWh last time I checked, although there was a hike or two since then.
So does 30 gallons of gasoline...
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Great post.....
Like the high price of horse feed forced people to buy Henry Ford's cars, eh???
Indeed.
No-one will be forced into EVs
The rapidly expanding and ever more obvious benefits of EVs will attract buyers like a rare earth magnets attract a horseshoe!
This is true. Lack of planning on someone's part...Precious little hydro in Texas.
Poop burning?If they could make poop burning cars for San Francisco that would work. Just drive to your next stop. Get out fill up the poop tank and keep going.
Which is my point. Electric cars are not free from fire risk.
Poop burning?
Why not make cars that burn homeless people?
San Frans problems would be solved
My buddy Jack, retired AF Fighter pilot. Keeps detailed and very accurate log books. Bought Pirus, 5 yr 7 mo later battery goes belly up, $5,132.15 to replace. Jack calls me and says: YOU were right, would have been cheaper and saved more money if I had gone with a gas model, $5000 bucks buys a LOT of gasoline!You still have a battery to replace in 5 years & it won't be cheap. I know several people that bought a Prius. When the battery died it was 5k for the battery + labor if your not a do it yourself type. I'm not much on the whole electric cars yet. Especially when the US government & other countries gives million of dollars to Tesla in subsidies.
This all compares to Tesla reporting a $312 million profit for the third quarter. Subtract the $713 million in U.S. subsidies, and Tesla's results would be far weaker. Add in the international subsidies received from countries such as Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands and the U.K., and the situation would look even worse.
https://realmoney.thestreet.com/inv...in-product-isn-t-cars-it-s-subsidies-14769263
This is true. Lack of planning on someone's part...
There's some sun in places here, though, I hear. Tesla has another product, the PowerWall, which can be used with solar installations to store the energy. Why not build a solar station next to your house and collect free sun power during the day and use it to charge your Model S at night? It could also be connected to your home to stand by in a power outage.
Get factual data in fires per mile driven. Then I will pay attention.Reality of physics.
Cram an enormous amount of energy into a small space and some rule or law of thermodynamics is going to want it to get out.
Entropy or enthalpy or some such long-filed-away concept that I needed to know for the briefest of moments to get through a college physics exam.
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Today' application of freshman HS algebra:
Since I started this thread almost 24.92 hours ago 473 fossil fuel powered vehicles have caught fire in just the US. Likely a couple thousand worldwide have burned.
That's an average based on government transportation data averages.
It highly unlikely that any electric vehicle has done so. Not even one.