Category: Alternative Subsidy

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

Alternative Subsidy Self Driving Roadkill 13 Comments

Unsafe at any speed – including “parked”.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched an investigation into the possibility that battery defects in Tesla vehicles may have caused the cars to burst into flames.
 
The investigation will involve certain battery management system software updates in Model S and Model X vehicles made between 2012 and 2019 in response to an “alarming number of car fires that have occurred worldwide,” according to a letter the agency sent to Al Prescott, Tesla’s deputy general counsel, on Oct. 24.

 
The alleged defects in question are “high-voltage battery fires that are not related to collision or impact damage to the battery pack,” according to the letter.

As in this case.

We Don’t Need No Giant Leaky Mirrors

Alternative Subsidy 23 Comments

Subsidy Fraud Boy has you covered.

Nobody wants a leaky roof. The consequences from water damage can be really expensive.
 
So Tesla needs to convince homeowners that its Solarglass roof, which hasn’t shown outside of a laboratory that it can withstand the test of time, is just as reliable as a regular roof. This at a time when Tesla is facing lawsuits from customers whose conventional rooftop solar arrays have caught fire.

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

Alternative Subsidy Roadkill 18 Comments

Unexpectedly;

A Tesla Model S police cruiser ran out of battery in the middle of a high-speed pursuit, the Fremont, California police department has confirmed.
 
Fremont officer Jesse Hartman radioed in that he was chasing down a “felony vehicle” but that his Model S cop car showed just six miles (10 km) of range before the battery would be empty, reports The Mercury News.
 
Hartman asked his dispatch to have another unit take over as pursuit lead after suggesting “I may lose it here in a second”; other gas-powered cars picked up the chase only to drop it shortly after due to the suspect’s driving getting way too reckless. The Tesla, meanwhile, had to recharge in San Jose before heading back to the station.

O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

Alternative Subsidy Moonbats Roadkill 38 Comments

Hear my prayer.

Our home in the Oakland hills was originally among the 250,000 properties in San Francisco’s bedroom communities that were supposed to lose power at noon local time on Wednesday — joining the half a million that had gone dark just after midnight. Then the winds blew in our favor and bankrupt utility PG&E Corp. changed its mind, delaying our cutoff to 8 p.m. I texted a friend at 10:30 p.m. to say our lights were still on, thinking maybe we were in the clear — and then it hit. After stumbling out of the shower, reality set in.

Related: Californians Learning That Solar Panels Don’t Work in Blackouts

h/t EMS

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

Alternative Subsidy 25 Comments

Through Google translate;

Based on claims made by DBS in 2018 from the Motor Vehicle Damage Office / Finance Norway, the Automotive Industry24 has calculated the damage frequency specifically for electric vehicles.
 
The tariffs are not including glass damage.
 
The figures show that electric cars are heavily over-represented in the injury statistics. The damage rate recorded on electric cars is 44 per cent higher than the fossil cars.
 
While fossil cars have a damage rate of 9.4 percent, electric cars have a full 13.5 percent. […]
 
There is little difference in the frequency of electric car brands between, with one exception: On average, in 2018, damage is recorded for every fifth Tesla on the road.

Original link here.

(h/t Don)

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

Alternative Subsidy 38 Comments

The future’s so bright, they gotta wear shrouds;

Sales of electric and hybrid vehicles have dropped more than 50 per cent in Ontario over the past year, according to data provided by a non-profit advocacy group.
 
Electric Mobility Canada recently released a report on electric vehicle sales compiling data from Statistics Canada and IHS Markit, a market analysis firm.
 
During the first quarter of 2018, 2,633 electric vehicles were sold in Ontario. During the same time period this year, that number dropped to 1,219.
 
Electric Mobility Canada attributes at least part of this decline to the end of Ontario’s Electric and Hydrogen Vehicle Incentive Program (EHVIP) in July 2018.
 
The program offered drivers between $5,000 and $14,000 to buy new environmentally friendly vehicles from a range of auto manufacturers.

Major Setback For EVs;

Peak oil demand might be delayed as the U.S. and China scale back support for fuel efficiency and electric vehicles.
 
[…]
 
According to Rapidan Energy, changes to policies in these two key countries, plus others, “may prompt reexamination of oil demand forecasts from IEA and EIA.” The consultancy is drawing upon its database that tracks 71 policies across 37 countries, which collectively account for 62.4 million barrels per day of oil demand.
 
In the U.S., the Trump administration is in the process of watering-down national fuel economy standards for cars and light-duty trucks. The proposal would freeze corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards at 39 miles per gallon by 2020, rather than letting them rise to 55 mpg as the Obama-era rules require. California has vowed to use its unique authority to maintain tighter fuel economy standards, but the Trump administration is also seeking to strip the state of its ability to set independent rules.

It’s as though they have to pay people to buy them.

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