EV car news

[Allen]

If insurance companies would band together and stop issuing policies for EV's people would stop buying them.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hurricane-milton-growing-risk-flooded-093000864.html

[JB White]

Data from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board shows that there are approximately 25 fires for every 100,000 EVs sold. That’s in comparison to are approximately 1,530 fires for every 100,000 gas-powered vehicles sold.

^^^Thats from the same article you linked to.
Some states have “Shall insure” or “Must insure” laws on the books when it comes to legal motorized vehicles.
Ganging up and saying “we don’t wanna” ain’t gonna cut it.

[Allen]

EV fires are often near impossible to extinguish though.

Not implying the info is correct or not but the U.S. National Trans Safety Board sounds like a taxpayer/gov't organization too. They're going to tell you what they want you to believe. Perhaps they couldn't keep the EV fires secret?

[Allen]

Ganging up and saying “we don’t wanna” ain’t gonna cut it.

I actually support the concept of EV's but not the way they exist now nor with the gov't force and propaganda.

After a LOT of changes and improvements I would like to see EV's offered as an option, not a requirement.

[Johnny P]

The odds may change after the flooding in Florida. Seems the EV's sitting in salt water are combusting, with a home security camera catching one parked in the garage catching fire as the water rose up to the batteries and caught on fire, burning the house down.

Ford had a problem with their EV trucks, and advised people not to park them inside until the problem was resolved.

[Major Tom]

I wonder why K. Harris tours the U.S. in a deisel powered bus! Where's her EV bus?

[JB White]

Where is the 5 billion dollars she was allocated for electric buses?
I rode an electric bus to high school. It only cost 20 cents.

[Allen]

I never understood the advantage of buses during Fred's time.

[lyman]

wonder what that pic was relating to in Cville,,,,


meanwhile, I don't have an issue with EV, since they have been around in some form since the car was invented,

if I lived downtown, and only did short trips I would entertain buying one,
however I think the politics and just regular BS around them is a bit thick, why not just be a bit transparent and let folks know where that energy is coming from and what it takes to make it (they kinda keep that quiet, vs educating the idgits that don't know what is behind the plug,)


re the Foad E trucks, salesman tried hard to get me to bite on a EV transit, but the numbers did not work out (distance per charge while loaded etc, )

and he finally admitted they actually sucked

[Phloating Phlasher]

True that they've existed for ever. I remember them as "Milk Floats", specialized short route local delivery route "vans" either towed by a handle or driven versions. British Rail had 3 wheeled electric "Tractors" for things like moving trains of baggage carts about & so on.
They had the old Lead-Acid batteries, but that was fine for the duties they were designed & built for.
Modern batteries are fare more energy dense & so more versatile, but they sill have limitation, like range, charge time & so on that restricted those older ones. Just not to the same extent.

People knew & acknowledged those limitations & didn't expect the Sun the Moon & the Stars fer cheap either.

The politics, outrageous claims & ridiculous impossible evasions, distortions & outright lies, have tainted the waters for me.