Category: Roadkill

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

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GCaptain;

The U.S. Coast Guard is responding to a fire on board the 600-foot car carrier Morning Midas carrying hundreds of electric vehicles approximately 300 miles off the coast of Alaska.

The vessel departed from Yantai, China on May 26 with destination Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico where it was expected on June 15. According to shipping database Equasis the 2006 Morning Midas is owned by Hawthorn Navigation Inc. out of London with management by Zodiac Maritime Limited.

Zodiac Maritime has confirmed the vessel is loaded with around 3,000 vehicles, 800 of which are electric vehicles. Smoke was initially seen emanating from a deck carrying electric vehicles, according to the statement.

Related: The decommissioned buses are said to be a mixture of electric-powered and gas buses in that lot, but it’s unclear which are burning currently burning.

(h/t Joe, Kenji)

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

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Ford EV sales “fall off a cliff”.

The left spent the last 20 years pushing electric cars as a moral imperative. Once the batsignal went out that was okay to torch and vandalize Musk’s cars because they don’t like the cut of his jib, that also signaled that earlier moral imperative has been concluded. Why would anyone go through the headache of owning an electric car when its true believers hate one of its most prominent manufacturers?

“Multiple layers of safety precautions failed that night,”

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Post Millennial- Black Hawk pilot Rachel Lobach ignored instructions before mid-air collision over Potomac River

Air traffic controllers had warned the helicopter crew about a nearby passenger airliner, and both Lobach and Eaves acknowledged the warning, opting to proceed under “visual separation.” This is a method where pilots are allowed to continue flying in the area by using their own observations rather than adhering to instructions from air traffic control.

The report said the Black Hawk was only 15 seconds from crossing paths with the passenger jet when Eaves informed Lobach that he believed air traffic control wanted them to turn left toward the east river bank.

Jeffrey Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself

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And neither did Virginia Giuffre, maybe. Or maybe she did.

The 41-year-old appeared with a bruised face last week when she posted an Instagram video saying her car had been hit by a speeding school bus as she slowed for a turn.

She said: “I’ve gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology.

“I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time…”

Police said they had received a report of a “minor crash” between a school bus and a car in Neergabby, about 12 miles from Perth, on 24 March.

“The collision was reported by the bus driver the following day,” said a spokeswoman. “There were no reported injuries as a result of the crash.”

A few days after the Instagram video, it emerged Ms Giuffre had been charged with allegedly breaching a family violence restraining order.

Ms Giuffre is reported to have separated from her husband. The case was due back in court today (9 April)

Dispatches From the Maple Gulag Truck Stop

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Gord Magill takes an in depth look at the problems that lead up to the recent crash on I-35 in Austin Texas, killing 5 people.

Recently, a horrific collision took place along Interstate 35 in Austin, Texas, where a commercial transport traveling at high speed crashed into a number of stopped vehicles along a stretch of the interstate that was under construction. 5 people were killed, including an infant and very young child, and another eleven people were sent to hospital, many with critical injuries. It turns out that the driver of the truck, a gentleman by the name of Solomun Weldekeal Araya, was a very recent migrant from Ethiopia that only had his commercial drivers license a scant four months.

O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

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Hear my prayer.

A massive luxury RV parking lot in City of Industry, California, has been taken over by homeless squatters.

The lot, which carries 130 campers worth $6.5 million, has become a crime-ridden homeless encampment over the past two years after a private party who bought the RVs abandoned the area, Fox 11 Los Angeles reported.

Videos of the scene show the parking lot riddled with massive piles of trash and one of the campers engulfed in flames.

Fly The Net Zero Skies

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CNN:

• Heathrow closed: London’s Heathrow Airport is completely shut down because of a power outage due to a large fire nearby, causing massive disruption at one of the world’s busiest travel hubs. The fire is now under control, but Heathrow’s backup power supply was also affected.

• Thousands impacted: Heathrow’s closure is expected to affect more than 1,300 flights. An airline analytics firm estimated that “upwards of 145,000” passengers could be impacted, and Heathrow is warning of significant disruption in the coming days. Trains around Heathrow have also been disrupted.

Of course: Heathrow had diesel generators for emergency back-up if the grid went down. Sadly they removed the back-up a few weeks ago in order to meet Green Energy targets.

Don’t Mess With Mandan

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BBC;

A North Dakota jury has found Greenpeace liable for defamation, ordering it to pay more than $660m (£507m) in damages to an oil company for the environmental group’s role in one of the largest anti-fossil fuel protests in US history.

Texas-based Energy Transfer also accused Greenpeace of trespass, nuisance and civil conspiracy over the demonstrations nearly a decade ago against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The lawsuit, filed in state court, argued that Greenpeace was behind an “unlawful and violent scheme to cause financial harm to Energy Transfer”.

Greenpeace, which vowed to appeal, said last month it could be forced into bankruptcy because of the case, ending over 50 years of activism.

h/t Ken

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

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Bad news for battery plants.

Nikola (NKLA.O) said on Wednesday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and would pursue a sale of its assets, the latest electric-vehicle maker to stumble after grappling with tepid demand, rapid cash burn and funding challenges.

The development ends a challenging journey, which included several leadership changes, plummeting share values and short-seller allegations.[…]

Phoenix, Arizona-based Nikola, delivered its first vehicle in December 2021. A series of fire incidents involving its electric trucks in 2023 resulted in a recall of all its vehicles and raised safety concerns.

Nikola ramped up production of its hydrogen-powered trucks in 2024, but still lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on every vehicle sold as fleet operators were reluctant to invest in electric truck adoption amid high borrowing costs.

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