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Massive EV cement truck fire: official 'explanation' versus the facts.

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5U4GB:
Oh, that's a different nutter than the one that someone sent me a link to.  There was a house fire somewhere close to here and some crackpot with a Youtube channel was expounding an elaborate conspiracy theory involving local government, central government, the fire service, fire safety investigators, the media, and probably a few more, all in a grand conspiracy to cover up the fact that an EV parked outside the house on a driveway had caused the fire inside the house.  Someone, maybe George Soros or Bill Gates, was telling all these organisations to report that it wasn't the EV parked outside that caused the fire inside (I stopped listening after a minute or two).

You don't even need to quote figures of EV vs. ICE fires for something like this, if the person pushing the conspiracy theory is recording his video from la-la land then that's pretty much the end of it.

Monkeh:

--- Quote from: johansen on December 24, 2023, 03:21:41 am ---https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/research/nfpa-research/fire-statistical-reports/vehicle-fires?l=0

Using that data as a baseline, there have neen 302 deaths per year due to small vehicle fires.

https://www.tesla-fire.com/
80 confirmed deaths, 218 fires.

You can run the numbers to adjust for the far, far fewer number of Teslas in existence compared to all other vehicles.

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Yes, let's compare an average from a single nation with 10 cumulative years globally. The number you're looking for is 6.7, not 80.

Dan123456:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 23, 2023, 09:51:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: lezginka_kabardinka on December 23, 2023, 05:11:49 pm ---EVs... lol.
More fires, more morons, more futurist obsessive nonsense.
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I love my EV. No noise, no vibration, no local air pollution (we literally call our ICE car the "Stinky" car), almost no running costs because I use excess solar, never have to go to a petrol station.
Although they are expensive, but the tax payer gave me one for free.
Not for everyone of course, horses for courses. But definitely not LOL.

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Lol, I’m the exact opposite  :P

While I have nothing against EV’s other than thinking they aren’t quite ready to take they place of ICE vehicles (although getting close!), I just love the sound, rumbles and smells of a high power ICE engine  >:D

That said, I am also one of those people that prefers a manual transmission as auto’s are boring to drive so maybe I’m just becoming a hipster in my old age  :-DD

SiliconWizard:
Both have advantages and drawbacks. I also like real ICE engines and manual transmission. But the comfort and silence of EVs, especially in urban traffic, is hard to beat.

Apart from EVs not being quite ready as you said, what I don't like, and I don't see ever improving (as it's not merely a technological issue) - probably only getting worse over time - is how dependent they make you compared to an ICE vehicle, on many levels.

lezginka_kabardinka:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on December 24, 2023, 04:23:52 am ---Both have advantages and drawbacks. I also like real ICE engines and manual transmission. But the comfort and silence of EVs, especially in urban traffic, is hard to beat.

Apart from EVs not being quite ready as you said, what I don't like, and I don't see ever improving (as it's not merely a technological issue) - probably only getting worse over time - is how dependent they make you compared to an ICE vehicle, on many levels.

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Far from a coincidence! 

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