Guest Post by Eric Peters
An ironic article appeared in the industry trade publication, Automotive News the other day. The lead reads thusly:
“As the nation transitions to electric transportation, fires have become a significant problem, affecting everything from e-bikes to high-end Teslas. These fires present an additional challenge to the electro-mobility industry, which is already dealing with cost concerns and infrastructure issues. The incidents not only claim lives but also risk undermining the progress made in electric technology.”
Italics added.
We need a copy editor, stat.
“The nation” is not “transitioning” to electric transportation; it is being forced to transition. The difference is that between a date and rape. But the writer of the article tries to make rape sound as if it were a date.
EVs spontaneously combusting is not an “additional challenge” – observe the blasé language, as if we were discussing losing weight or some other thing that could be improved via effort. What we are dealing with as regards lithium-ion batteries is an inherent vulnerability that cannot be fixed.
At least, not without using something other than lithium-ion batteries. It is either ignorant or disingenuous to speak of “additional challenges.” It is like speaking of the infirmity that inevitably attends old age without mentioning the old age part, implying it’s a problem that can be fixed.
But the best part is the part about “undermining the progress made.”
This is truly stupendous. It manages in one short phrase to shame and blame the victims of this forced regression to battery-powered vehicles – which are not new vehicles. They are vehicles that failed in the market – 100 years ago – when better alternatives became available (as this column discussed in greater depth a few days ago; you can find that here).
But at least the EVs of 100 years ago didn’t spontaneously combust.
Why? Because they used lead acid batteries to store electricity. These are less fire-prone because they do not contain hundreds (let alone thousands) of individual failure points; i.e., the hundreds (if not thousands) of individual cells that you will find within an EV battery pack. All it takes is for one of these to “thermally run away” – short circuit – and you’ve got an almost instantaneous, fast-progressing and extremely hot fire that is extremely difficult to extinguish, even with professional-grade equipment.
This is why EVs are “totaling” transport ships full of vehicles – and the ship along with them. Most recently, the Freemantle Highway.
The electric cars of 100 years ago were supplanted by cars powered by engines that burned gas (and diesel) because the latter were more versatile, could be driven farther and didn’t take all day to recharge.
But not because the EVs of 100 years ago were fire hazards.
Today, they are – and the fact is becoming generally known, including to the insurance mafia – which is finding it is on the hook for these fires, some of which can entail losses in the many millions, as in the case of a burned-to-a-crisp cargo ship. Money talks. Or rather, it gets people talking.
Also, not buying.
It is interesting, in a canary-in-the-coal-mine way, to observe the fact that inventories of EVs are piling up all over the country. There is reportedly a 70 day supply – that is, unsold backlog – of EVs that have been built and shipped that are sitting and waiting for buyers who’ve not materialized. EVs are suddenly not as hot as they supposedly were. Possibly because people are beginning to realize just how “hot” they can be.
Also, the effect of the hot – and the cold – on these Occasional Use Vehicles (OUVs). The latter a much more honest acronym than “EV” given the fact of their limited range under optimum conditions – and what happens to their range when conditions aren’t optimum. Word began to leak out about that last winter, when people who’d never driven an EV in very cold weather found out what happens to EV range in winter. Not many people will knowingly buy a car that goes 30-50 percent less far when it’s cold out, which in many parts of the country is for months out of each year.
Similarly, word is leaking out about what happens to the range of a battery-powered device when it is hot out – and the battery must also power the AC, in addition to the car. In brief, a general awareness is dawning that EVs have a narrow bandwidth of real-world usability and a built-in vulnerability to burning up that cannot be lessened by exercising caution. The EV owner can only park the thing far away from his house, so as to reduce the risk of his house going up in smoke. It is also an inevitability as certain as the tide rolling back in that the insurance mafia is going to “adjust” what it charges to “cover” these things, so that it is not left holding the bag paying for the certain losses that will be (already have been) incurred by these things.
But the lügenpresse is still doing all it can to alter the course of that talk – much as it did during the “pandemic,” when it exercised all its might to trample over any inconvenient facts about the risks of the ‘Rona, the efficacy of alternative treatments such as Ivermectin and the inefficacy of “vaccines” that turned out to be useless as well as dangerous.
Kind of like EVs.
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Every time you see the words “During This Transition ” , you can substitute with ” we are intentionally turning everything to shit .”
No. When you hear that, you should interpret it as “we’re going to kill you…either immediately or eventually, but the intent is poured in concrete.”
You won’t die until they take all your money first.
Eric knocks it out of the park with this article. Comparing it to rape is a date, priceless.
Memphrica news this weekend had a story about the lack of charging stations and the need for people to keep a gas powered vehicle for trips, even as close as Nashville (200 mi)
Surprised that the Heirs of Billy Dunavant, Bert Robinson himself orthat Jan Gwin hasn’t arranged a LLC to build a s-pot of these. In Southaven or Collierville (hey, let’s get the Wingos involved), but not in town.
Collierville and G-Town are wide open with development. Mayor Cox always kept the Ville small and compact, but since he left, apartments have sprung up all over town, lots of fast food, a big mall, couple of large strip centers, etc. The only thing that hasn’t changed is the limit of 3 liquor stores, but Kroger and Walmart can now sell wine, only because it is a state law and locally approved by the voters.
There are a few charging stations around, but not many. I do not know of any in Collierville, Germantown, Southaven or Olive Branch, but there might be some. I suspect FedEx has some in their parking lots, but they would not be accessible to the general public.
I’m sure they are waiting on fed.gov to provide the money to build them.
And, they’re encouraging people in Californnia to not charge their electric vehicles, I believe in the daytime, because it puts too big a strain on the electrical grid because of the global warming that is heating our planet. And then, buy more electric cars.
CA will ban the sale of IC automobiles by ’35. Demand usually spikes just as everyone gets off of work and gets home to cool down and cook supper. Lowest demand is from 10pm to 7am.
Also, Joey is going to ban gas stoves and water heaters to add more strain to an already strained electrical grid. On top of that he wants to partially block the sun at the same time he wants to rely more on solar. You could never make up a more stupid story if you tried.
First heard this expression 50+ years ago…”He’d f*up a wet dream.”
Biden to a T. Plus, TPTB.
Reminds me of an old epsiode of “The Critic” (Fox cartoon starring Jon Lovitz, circa mid- 90s). His son’s school was having a parade with animal floats. Somehow, the rear half of the horse float catches on fire and crashes through the door of the theatre where “Cats” is playing.
Son was agog, Dad says, “Don’t worry son. Nothing of value will be lost.” When these people will crash & burn, the same applies. They’re clever, but not smart enough to to damage control to themselves.
🙂
TPTB will ensure that the ship owners, insurance companies, etc are compensated for their losses. Converting en masse to EVs is an integral part of their Great Reset/Agenda 2030. They aren’t going to let anything, including numerous fires, thwart them. They can create virtually unlimited amounts of money via their control of the Federal Reserve and other central banks, so money is no object for them.
Ahha…
We’re going to be offered EVs instead of generators soon.
Versteeg said the vessel was carrying 2,857 cars, including 25 electric cars, making fighting the flames more difficult.
War broke out today in the auto world, where 25 kamikaze electric vehicles took out 2,857 internal combustion enemies and an innocent transport ship.
Lithium Batteries over 100 wats are not allowed on aircraft.
Because when they burst into flames at 5000 degrees in mid flight,
the kill everyone on board.
As e-bikes proliferate, so do deadly fires blamed on batteries
The explosion early on a June morning ignited a blaze that engulfed a New York City shop filled with motorized bicycles and their volatile lithium-ion batteries. Billowing smoke quickly killed four people asleep in apartments above the burning store.
https://www.telegraphherald.com/news/national_world/article_18347db4-56de-508d-a9b5-8c6a21e8fe6e.html
Ahh, lithium ion battery packs.
Besides the fact that starving kids in Africa are mining cobalt and other RE’s for the Tesla gang,
a short story for y’all.
Lying in bed one late night, after having a few pops in the pub, and after a great sweat / workout,
courtesy of playing in a 50+ roller hockey league game,
…an infomercial was stumbled upon, showing a battery powered skateboard of sorts,
where motion and turning was activated with skilled shifting of body weight.
It showed how easy and fun it is to operate one of those gadgets.
-Yours truly let the tipsy side of him make a late night purchase via CC. Foolishness.
Upon arrival, we went down into the poured cement basement to try our new toy.
Uh-oh.
Not so easy to balance on, operate, steer, or roll with it.
After almost doing a face plant, & almost crashing into shelves of stored accumulations over 30 years,
I reached for the push mower (also has wheels), and used that for stabilization to try the hoverboard.
Kind of like one of them old timer’s walker contraptions, with wheels on the front legs, tennis balls on the back, and handlebars to hold on to.
Thinking: “This shouldn’t be that difficult. I roller blade like an NHL player. No problem.”
Yeah.
Think again, Skippy.
After 10 minutes of attempting to be a later stage Tony Hawk, I abandoned the new hobby.
A couple days later, a news blurb broke, that the onboard battery was subject to electrical shorts,
a la Teslas Gone Wild, where fire can potentially break out from hoverboards, inextinguishable.
Packed that SOB back into the box, and returned it for a refund.
Lost about $30 bucks for that folly, in inbound and return shipping fees.
Lesson learned.
Recently saw another blurb that battery powered bicycles with Lithium Ions on board
can have the same danger.
For anyone bringing that kind of bike inside…an apartment, basement, garage, to prevent theft…
Careful.
Your structure might go up in smoke.
Get back to pedaling. Bikes are for healthy exercise, not for a lazy joy ride without effort.
Also, best not to watch HSN sell-a-vision after indulging, with a CC close by.
Ditto, for making snarky comments on a web based platform for truth and opinion.
Carry on.
Learn what NOT to do, by the mistakes of others.