EV are they worth it?

[DiyNutJob]

No. The best policy is to call the fire service and make sure the neighbours are safe.

Ever put water on a petrol fire ?

I can honestly tell you I have no experience of a petrol fire. It just doesn't happen.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

I can honestly tell you I have no experience of a petrol fire. It just doesn't happen.

That's just pure rubbish

 

[ReganAndCarter]

AND you get to bend over a barrel and drop your trousers for a big oil company! I mean... what's not to like, eh?

You were happy to bend over for oil companies before were were forced into EVs. You still are. Everything you buy has come to you thanks to oil cos and diesel. You're funding it.

Least when I go to a petrol station I know I will leave 10 mins later with a full tank and range of 650 to 700 miles. I can fill up under that nice big canopy that keeps me bone dry.

Unlike you, standing in the p!$$ing rain, trying to find the right plug, then trying to find the right app, hoping the app and charger are both working. Or there are some chargers available. Then if you're lucky you get to sit in a car park on a retail park for an hour like a mug, playing on your phone and eating Greggs sausage rolls and several cups of coffee to help relieve the monumental boredom that is EV ownership.

 

[DiyNutJob]

That's just pure rubbish

I can only speak from personal experience. I have never seen an ICE spontaneously combust. Although, I would not completely rule ICE fires. Here's a mild example:

 

[carmanmemoranda]

I can only speak from personal experience. I have never seen an ICE spontaneously combust. Although, I would not completely rule ICE fires. Here's a mild example:

Have you ever seen an EV spontaneously combust ?

 

[carmanmemoranda]

I can only speak from personal experience. I have never seen an ICE spontaneously combust. Although, I would not completely rule ICE fires. Here's a mild example:

And as a reminder the question was would you not help a neighbour in any emergency?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I can only speak from personal experience. I have never seen an ICE spontaneously combust. Although, I would not completely rule ICE fires. Here's a mild example:

Poor ICE example - that an Iphone exploding, probably better as an example of what can happen to batteries, and EV's.

 

[Avocet]

How lucky, do the EV owners feel?

luckier than ICE owners - which is really all that matters...

 

[Avocet]

Interesting snippet in that report -

"In the last year, the [Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue] service logged 277 fires in road vehicles, three of which were categorised as electric or hybrid."


Hmm.

In the interests of trying to remain in the land of facts etc, and not jumping to conclusions, the photo was taken after the fire, possibly some time after as it was about 3 weeks ago, so that wheel could have been retrieved and propped up there, the garage door and surround has taken a bit of a beating, and the car in the background must have arrived after.

It could, but the holes for the wheel nuts look intact. The other vehicle (which looks like it might be a Tesla from the door handles?) may or may not have been there,I accept that. The garage door paint is blistered and there's some smoke damage to the render, but the car is....what...about 10 feet from it? Presumably, it is in the location it was towed to? That fire damage to the garage door isn't at all what the anti-EV brigade would have had us believe. Frankly, I'd have expected a burning ICE car to have done more damage, that close to the garage? And then, of course, there's the intact paint on the front doors and sills....

The more I think about this, the fishier it gets...

 

[Avocet]

I would feel loved knowing my neighbors have me covered in my time of ruin.

That's good. So long as there's someone there to drag you out from under your car and call the ambulance after you've tried to jack it up on its brake discs...

 

[Avocet]

The Fire Brigade, using one of their vehicles, dragged the burning vehicle away from the house to prevent further damage to the house. This dragging caused the wheel to detatch and to be where it is in that picture.

Do you really believe that? Do you really think that Mercedes wheels come off if the tyres (never mind the rims after the tyre has burned away) are slid across the road (or in this case, brick drive)? If I were to get in an EQA and pull a handbrake turn (tricky, with what I imagine would be an electric handbrake), do you think the wheels would come off?

 

[Avocet]

What parameters are used to decide into which category a burning vehicle should be placed.

Does a vehicle that self ignites when it is parked off the road get categorised as a fire in a road vehicle ?

Yes of course it does! Why wouldn't it? Would a fire in a diesel Landrover, parked in (say) an airport car park not be counted?

 

[Avocet]

I can honestly tell you I have no experience of a petrol fire. It just doesn't happen.

Ah... I see we're back to the lies again...

No EVs back in 1999, but plenty of petrol cars in that tunnel...

On this day, forgotten disasters: Mont Blanc Tunnel fire

Join us to reflect on the tragic incident of 24th March 1999, where a routine morning journey through the Mont Blanc Tunnel, became the scene of a disastrous fire claiming the lives of 39 people. This tragedy remains one of the most significant events in the history of tunnel safety and serves...

www.fia.uk.com

 

[Avocet]

That's just pure rubbish

He does have a reputation to protect, when all's said and done...

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Do you really believe that? Do you really think that Mercedes wheels come off if the tyres (never mind the rims after the tyre has burned away) are slid across the road (or in this case, brick drive)? If I were to get in an EQA and pull a handbrake turn (tricky, with what I imagine would be an electric handbrake), do you think the wheels would come off?

The debris field, from the fire is behind it, which suggests it has been dragged forward. I'm less sure why the rear wheels came adrift, I am not familiar with the construction of EV's.