Electric Vehicle Battery Issues/Fires

[AZMark]

Even manufactures know EV is not the future... BMW Boss Says Hydrogen, Not Electric, Will Be ‘Hippest Thing’ to Drive

That’s a long but really interesting article.

They’re still EVs with electric motors, just different way of storing the power.

 

[fireflymedic]

Something else you don't see in the adds for electric cars when they are bragging about range is they don't recommend fully charging the battery to 100%. So your not going to be able to go the advertised range. Or if you do not for long because you are destroying your battery charging past 80-90%.

"But will it harm your vehicle to charge it past 80%? Technically, it can. Lithium-ion batteries cannot tolerate high voltages for extended periods of time, and keeping your battery charged fully can accelerate degradation".Jun 3, 2022

Also

"unfortunately the problem with chronic range depreciation from prolonged high-speed highway cruising isn't going away." Feb 16, 2022

I think electric cars are for city dwellers not for rural America.

I was thinking of a Toyota hybrid until I read mice love to eat the soy based insulation they use on the wiring. I live in rural area and have a rodent problem. Maybe they should come with a cat lol.

 

[adrianp89]

Something else you don't see in the adds for electric cars when they are bragging about range is they don't recommend fully charging the battery to 100%. So your not going to be able to go the advertised range. Or if you do not for long because you are destroying your battery charging past 80-90%.

"But will it harm your vehicle to charge it past 80%? Technically, it can. Lithium-ion batteries cannot tolerate high voltages for extended periods of time, and keeping your battery charged fully can accelerate degradation".Jun 3, 2022

Also

"unfortunately the problem with chronic range depreciation from prolonged high-speed highway cruising isn't going away." Feb 16, 2022

I think electric cars are for city dwellers not for rural America.

I was thinking of a Toyota hybrid until I read mice love to eat the soy based insulation they use on the wiring. I live in rural area and have a rodent problem. Maybe they should come with a cat lol.

I could be wrong but I don’t recall anything g wrong with charging either of ours to 100%. The Tesla recommended 80-90% so you can retain regen braking, that was only reason though.

 

[Mesa50]

In the future, this is going to be known as the era when every single manufacturer made a Yugo.

 

[HangOutdoors]

Even manufactures know EV is not the future... BMW Boss Says Hydrogen, Not Electric, Will Be ‘Hippest Thing’ to Drive

I have done some research on the Hydrogen powered vehicles. Very interesting stuff.

 

[Billtex2000]

To imply that Fox News doesn’t absolutely have a narrative against electric cars is unfair as well.
The whole second half of the article reiterates that and their headline is far more alarming than the FL official’s actual tweet/statement.

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir had a long report on the Florida Teslas the other night...so I guess it's real now. SMH

 

[Bruce]

This is what a real EV fire looks like. Puncturing the batteries is a bad idea.

Driver ejected, dies after crashing Tesla into pillar in mall parking lot

A driver is dead after hitting a pillar at a California outlet mall Wednesday morning.California Highway Patrol (CHP) said the driver, a 35-year-old man from Eu

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[AZMark]

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir had a long report on the Florida Teslas the other night...so I guess it's real now. SMH

Never said fires can’t start or that nothing Fox says is real. I have no dog in the EV fight. It’s just a misleading and extremely biased article.

The tweet, that is the subject of the article:
There’s a ton of EVs disabled from Ian. As those batteries corrode, fires start. That’s a new challenge that our firefighters haven’t faced before. At least on this kind of scale.

The headline:
Electric vehicles are exploding from water damage after Hurricane Ian, top Florida official warns