Via Ed Driscoll, who knows a great post title when he sees one.
14 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars”
If you wouldn’t put them on a ship due to the fire risk, how long before insurers charge more for house insurance, given the governments’ drive for electric vehicles?
Or maybe they’ll even refuse to insure?
1. Do you own a Pitbull?
2. Do you own a Tesla or other e-car?
Lithium iron phosphate batteries are very resistant to ignition and combustion. To the point now that they present a lower fire risk than gas powered cars. LFP comprise the majority of ev shipments from china.
Your information is heavily outdated. Even now ev fires have an incident rate less than 1/10th that of fuel vehicles and the fires are less intense. Even lithium nickel batteries are far far less flammable than even a few years ago.
I’m not an ev guy. I’m an electrician who follows this stuff out of professional interest as a guy who is installing a lot of charging ports in homes and businesses.
How many gas powered cars burst into flames on ships like this?
Lithium iron phosphate have a lower energy density than li-ion.
I’m not sure that most shipments from China use LiFePO.
Q: if enough houses or businesses get hooked up close together does this not create a need to upgrade the local transformer?
If you charge overnight it’s fine. But yeah it will cause brownouts otherwise.
Thanks!
Not just the transformer, Buddy. It’s been estimated that the US needs to bring a new nuclear or natural gas system online every 2 weeks to meet the demand of electrifying the vehicle fleet and shutting down coal production.
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The batteries on this bus were supposed to be safe. 2 out of 149 turned into crisps before being taken out of service.
If you wouldn’t put them on a ship due to the fire risk, how long before insurers charge more for house insurance, given the governments’ drive for electric vehicles?
Or maybe they’ll even refuse to insure?
1. Do you own a Pitbull?
2. Do you own a Tesla or other e-car?
Lithium iron phosphate batteries are very resistant to ignition and combustion. To the point now that they present a lower fire risk than gas powered cars. LFP comprise the majority of ev shipments from china.
Your information is heavily outdated. Even now ev fires have an incident rate less than 1/10th that of fuel vehicles and the fires are less intense. Even lithium nickel batteries are far far less flammable than even a few years ago.
I’m not an ev guy. I’m an electrician who follows this stuff out of professional interest as a guy who is installing a lot of charging ports in homes and businesses.
How many gas powered cars burst into flames on ships like this?
Lithium iron phosphate have a lower energy density than li-ion.
I’m not sure that most shipments from China use LiFePO.
Q: if enough houses or businesses get hooked up close together does this not create a need to upgrade the local transformer?
If you charge overnight it’s fine. But yeah it will cause brownouts otherwise.
Thanks!
Not just the transformer, Buddy. It’s been estimated that the US needs to bring a new nuclear or natural gas system online every 2 weeks to meet the demand of electrifying the vehicle fleet and shutting down coal production.
Odd. This comment went to moderation (no links at any time).
The batteries on this bus were supposed to be safe. 2 out of 149 turned into crisps before being taken out of service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r-yN8SugWM
You are famous Kate!
Well, of course she is!
Didn’t you know that?!
Wise, he is. Yoda, I am not.
It’s clearly all denial. Those flames bursting out of your electrically powered products are entireley a figment of your imagination. /sarc