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GeorgiaPeachie said:
They sure are! Saw where a ship with hundreds of German cars…BMW, Porche, Mercedes and Audi…caught on fire. They could not get the fire out for 7 days because of some cars burning that had lithium ion batteries! After they did get the fire out the ship was being towed back to a port in the Azures, but it sank!
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That was the Felicity Ace.
 
Arcticdude said:
Do the EV enthusiasts realize that the government will tax them on a per mile basis, to make up for what they're not paying in road tax? I really don't know where the savings is on an EV.
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Some states charge an additional fee on registration to cover it.
 
Arcticdude said:
And some are planing on adding a fee for each mile driven. EV's aren't paying their share of road maintenance and construction costs. At least according to their reasoning.
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MI comes to mind with the 400 fee. I think several other blue states followed including Delaware I believe.
Do you see the pattern?
I would hate to be that little old lady in Pasadena MI (don’t know if that’s a town, but you catch my drift) that has to pay an extra 400 a year for a normal 100 a year in gas taxes.
 
GeorgiaPeachie said:
They sure are! Saw where a ship with hundreds of German cars…BMW, Porche, Mercedes and Audi…caught on fire. They could not get the fire out for 7 days because of some cars burning that had lithium ion batteries! After they did get the fire out the ship was being towed back to a port in the Azures, but it sank!
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Im hoping we never have to respond to a wreck call with an entrapped victim in an EV vehicle,
 
I wish you the best of luck. If you think electric cars are the way to go then by all means, I don’t, and neither does anyone else I know, or have trained with. Best of luck and hope it works out for you; however, I would probably reconsider.
 
Thatoneguy69 said:
I wish you the best of luck. If you think electric cars are the way to go then by all means, I don’t, and neither does anyone else I know, or have trained with. Best of luck and hope it works out for you; however, I would probably reconsider.
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I agree with you, i wouldnt have one of those bombs on wheels, BICRAP and cronys should have to pay for every fire and death they have caused! SEND the bill to AOC and group too!!!
 
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/0...power-evs-has-one-glaring-shortcoming-n527352
What we’re seeing here is the head-on collision of two bad pieces of policy that will crash into each other in barely a decade. One is the ban on gas-powered vehicles and the other is the state’s mandate that all power produced in California must come from renewable sources by 2045. As the linked report notes, industry officials were “surprised” by the announcement that there would be sufficient electricity to charge a fleet of vehicles that size when the state can barely avoid rolling blackouts today during the summer and autumn months today.​
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In order to reach that goal, California would need to immediately begin constructing enough solar and wind plants to literally triple the amount of electricity that is currently being generated. That means that they would need to put up new wind farms and solar plants at roughly five times the rate they have been able to build them over the past ten years.​
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Nobody thinks that can actually happen. Both rising prices and supply chain shortages have raised costs and delayed the development of new wind farms over the past two years. This trend is projected to continue.​
 
Arcticdude said:
Don't these things have any safety cut out features for overheating or overcharge conditions?
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Lithium batteries that I've worked with had on-board electronics to supervise power egress. But if that PCB fails, all bets are off.

I'm assuming the supervisor circuit board is failing in these cases. But with such a hot fire, there's no chance for a post-mortem.
 
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This crazy idea of converting the military to all electric vehicles is clearly not feasible. Throw the grid switch or Set off an EMP, etc is all it would take to cripple every vehicle. Where would they be charged? Maybe putting a gas operated generator on a flat bed and let it follow the vehicles. That is, until the generator runs dry.
 
Arcticdude said:
In the new woke world we won't need a strong military or strong men. Just a rainbow of men in name only.
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Or a military where AI has replaced the need for Generals, NCO's and grunts.
 
Arcticdude said:
In the new woke world we won't need a strong military or strong men. Just a rainbow of men in name only.
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I seriously wait for the day when our troops are on the battlefield in rainbow camo and skirts, fighting with cottonballs against papertanks...

Popcorn anyone?
 
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