Something to consider when you are in a battery powered bus or car or on an E-bike

Gasoline doesn’t burn? Yes, yes it does. And the fire department responds to car fires every day. If you don’t want to buy an electric car, then don’t. But the doom porn just makes you look silly.

originally posted by: crayzeed
a reply to: Edumakated
Ah but. there is approx 10.5 million electric cars on the roads so 5000 cars burning up is .0021 of that number. Whereas there is approx 1.474 billions gas cars so 225,000 works out to .00000655111111111 of that number. That works out that electric cars are vastly more likely to set afire.

Wait till some script kiddie hacks into a car or charging station and turns of the safety overload features or if some evil foreign government wants to play nasty things would get interesting real quick .

Like in Maui if some evil government were to roll out Dew wea pons that made smart meters pop like popcorn even with no visable fire or heat source near

I know that those not so smart home lights can be hacked easily and can turn the house into a disco very easily

a reply to: DAVID64

Not long ago it was e cigarettes exploding in people's pockets because of the batteries

Yeah , folks just put extra batteries in their pockets , thus the reason it is law that a battery case must be given when selling vape batteries.
This , I would hope, is a different situation.
The I hope part is due to I would think that the battery and car companies know what insulation is.

Apart from that is a Natural gas powered bus.Not electric. a reply to: 727Sky

Yes and according to the fire service it started in a DEiSEL VEHICLE!a reply to: Itisnowagain

originally posted by: Edumakated
a reply to: crayzeed

225,000 gas cars catch on fire every year versus about 5,000 electric car fires....

With that said, electric car fires can be more intense and spontaneous than a gas fire so that is a legitimate concern. You also can't use water to extinguish. However, perspective is needed.

Have at it, go buy one and take the risk of it catching fire. I know of about three here that caught fire within the last two years or so, plus one that hit a tree and caught fire killing the person. That is in Marquette county, there are not that many electric cars up here....I would say that maybe one in a hundred here have problems with catching on fire here, but most the fire is not that bad, it just destroys the car. Other than the one that hit the tree, nobody died in one. The guy in the car that hit the tree was injured I guess but the fire burned him up alive is what the word on the street is saying. That does not mean it is true, but the accident was not bad enough to kill anyone supposedly. It was in the news, but not much stated that the fire killed him....But one of the cops did tell my friend he was probably alive yet when it burst into flames. The cause of the death was supposedly driving while intoxicated which resulted in an accident.

Just checked on the accident before posting, they hit a power pole and bounced into some small trees, and there were actually two that burnt in that accident, but only one would have been burnt alive is what I was told. I remembered some on that accident, just refreshed my memory a little to make sure I had it pretty correct.

a reply to: Edumakated

That number is low due the "fact" that electric vehicles are only a small portion of all vehicles in the nation, only 7%, soo taking this into consideration is still high, very high.

Electric cars are not reliable, and they are very dangerous, more these dangers will grow if the greenies get away with forcing people into buying them.

They are also not friendly to the soo call "environment", mining lithium requires large amounts of water that goes back into the ground polluting water supplies, air, degrades the land and more.

Soo is a darn clima fixing joke and a lie.

a reply to: 727Sky

Put a bell on a lithium puncture and we have a new form of space travel. Lol.

a reply to: 727Sky

check youtube for runaway diesel engines. It's probably happened.

That being said, battery tech is not here for EVs to be mass use. Nor is any country's power grid.

a reply to: 727Sky

My God, that looks like a static test of the space shuttle SRB. Please tell me everyone got out of that ok.

I laughed the other night, as I was listening to a podcast and someone referred to Tesla cars as "mobile crematoriums".

a reply to: gambon

Do you know the make and model of the car?

a reply to: 727Sky

This is not an electric bus according to the top comment on YouTube under this video.

Wild how easily we all get swayed by a claim because we were emotionally attached to the outcome. Most didn't even check, or wouldn't have thought of checking.

I too fell for it, and just wanted to read the YouTube commends when I discovered the bus was not electric, but most likely natural gas.

a reply to: 727Sky

On a smaller scale.

But the Lithium Ion batteries are in all our phones, laptops and other devices.

That utilise the same technology as a power source have the capacity to catch fire and explode should the housings become damaged or exposed to the atmosphere

So just a thought when you are walking around with one of those in your pocket might be sound advice.



End of the day the technology will be supplanted with a less dangerous power source at some point, but until such times Lithium Ion batteries are here to stay.

a reply to: 727Sky

1.16.2024

Lansing Michigan just ordered a small fleet of electric School Buses. Very dangerous! And we're finding out that electric cars and charging stations don't function properly in extremely cold weather.

In Chicago, the temperature has not risen above Zero degrees for 3 days.

Electric cars are being abandoned all over the city, because the Charging Stations don't work while its very cold outside.

See this Chicago Electric Car Graveyard: www.breitbart.com...

originally posted by: 00018GE
Gasoline doesn’t burn? Yes, yes it does. And the fire department responds to car fires every day. If you don’t want to buy an electric car, then don’t. But the doom porn just makes you look silly.

ICE cars don't have to be submerged for couple days to put fire out.

Coal powered cars do.

a reply to: 727Sky


Yes , driving with Possible explosive device does not much excite me . Another reason is they loose range in Winter cold.




EVs Lose 30% Of Their Range On Average In The Winter Vs. Ideal Conditions

Now That is a fire truck.

"Something to consider when you are in a
battery powered bus or car or on an E-bike"

Land fill?
what happens to all the toxic wast?
and what damage does digging up lithium do?
And ALL the other stuff.

For a few years i rebuilt lithium battery packs, i found about 75% of batteries sold on eBay and Amazon were counterfeit.
ebay has cleaned up their act but amazon still sells lot of counterfeit/fake 18650 batteries.
any 18650 battery rated above 3600mAh is fake and dangerous.

cellsaviors.com...

All 18650 batteries should be tested, and any fake batteries should be returned for a refund after marking them as fake.
the funny thing is i bought my testing equipment from a chinese company selling counterfeit/fake 18650 batteries.