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| Thread ID: 150976 | 2022-11-02 20:00:00 | More On E.V. Fires | zqwerty (97) | PC World Chat |
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| 1489198 | 2022-11-02 20:00:00 | www.motorbiscuit.com | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1489199 | 2022-11-02 22:26:00 | Oops, won't let me access it? Ken |
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| 1489200 | 2022-11-03 02:49:00 | Worked for me... | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1489201 | 2022-11-03 05:09:00 | I cannot access it either:crying | smithie 38 (6684) | ||
| 1489202 | 2022-11-03 05:13:00 | Neither on laptop phone or tablet Ken |
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| 1489203 | 2022-11-03 06:00:00 | google evfires Florida | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1489204 | 2022-11-03 06:16:00 | I think it worked for me because I have uBlock and NoScript etc. Otherwise you get a popup telling you to disable adblock. Or you can just click "continue without supporting us" in that popup If that doesn't work I don't know why you can't access it... |
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| 1489205 | 2022-11-03 20:12:00 | Works perfectly fine on Edge. Opening on Brave did pop up about ad blocking but still opened fine | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1489206 | 2022-11-04 02:31:00 | They this . its the vid embedded in that link www.youtube.com "EVs starting fires in hurricane aftermath" Salt water from flooding/storm surge + lithium batts = big issues . |
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| 1489207 | 2022-11-04 22:47:00 | Neither on laptop phone or tablet Ken In the aftermath of the devastating Hurricane Ian in Florida, things are going from bad to worse. The destruction is massive, and also ongoing. That’s because even though the hurricane occurred over a week ago, its after-effects are mounting. These include the instances of Tesla EVs exploding into flames around the state. The mixture of electricity and salt water leads to these latent fires. Florida State Fire Marshal Jimmy Patronis on Twitter wrote, “There’s a ton of EVs disabled from lan. 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”. In Naples, Florida alone, there have been four reports of Tesla fires since Hurricane Ian struck. EV fires have always posed problems for firefighters. The energy stored in the batteries doesn’t dissipate over time. “So you have the stored energy in the batteries,” Stephen Gollan with Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue told NewsNation. “Just because the vehicle is submerged doesn’t mean the energy is discharged in any way. Anytime you mix electrical components and salt water together, it is a recipe for disaster.” This has been a known problem for some time, and Florida isn’t the first instance of it happening. In 2018, Italy’s Port of Savona became flooded. Stored there were Maserati hybrids for export. A number of them caught fire when the salt water leaked into the lithium-ion batteries. Extinguishing these very hot fires can take thousands of gallons of water. Tesla’s emergency response guide says between 3,000 to 8,000 gallons of water are necessary to extinguish an EV fire. For gas-powered vehicles, it takes on average around 1,000 gallons of water to put out a fire. Florida has 95,000 registered EVs according to the Department of Energy. It comes in second for the amount of EVs in each state only to California, with 563,000. But according to experts, gas-powered vehicles are much more likely to burst into flames than electric vehicles. Experts combed through National Safety Board, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and government recalls. It found that gas-powered vehicles had 1,529 fires per 100,000 sales. Conversely, electric vehicles caught fire 25 times for 100,000 sales. |
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