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| MT:
Aaaand noow! EEVBLOG forum favourite, everyone's Aussie cuddle bear! |
| Dan123456:
lol :-DD She’ll be right! I say we get them hauling fuel tankers, hazardous materials and vital medicines rather than just concrete ASAP :P |
| thm_w:
Gas vehicles are far more likely to catch fire than EVs, on the order of 7-40x more likely. Commercial trucks are disproportionally a larger percent of those fires. https://www.warpnews.org/transportation/fewer-fires-in-electric-cars-compared-to-fossil-fueled-cars-in-the-worlds-country-with-the-highest-share-of-electric-cars/ https://rib.msb.se/filer/pdf/29438.pdf https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/9671 |
| tom66:
Sigh. Another Cardogan video where he looks at one off occurrences and concludes electrification is doomed because low-series-production vehicles are experiencing battery fires. I mean, let's just ignore that diesel trucks do catch fire quite a bit, and that this fire really only resulted in an economic cost to the company operating it (no one died or was injured). Despite all of this, operators are clambering like mad for electric vehicle options here. I guess they're all deranged because every EV truck burns to the ground and no one would be stupid enough to want to use one. Shame, I used to like the chap but he seems to have found his niche and is determined to follow it to the bitter end. |
| vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: tom66 on December 20, 2023, 11:58:25 pm ---Sigh. Another Cardogan video where he looks at one off occurrences and concludes electrification is doomed because low-series-production vehicles are experiencing battery fires. I mean, let's just ignore that diesel trucks do catch fire quite a bit, and that this fire really only resulted in an economic cost to the company operating it (no one died or was injured). Despite all of this, operators are clambering like mad for electric vehicle options here. I guess they're all deranged because every EV truck burns to the ground and no one would be stupid enough to want to use one. Shame, I used to like the chap but he seems to have found his niche and is determined to follow it to the bitter end. --- End quote --- I never liked him. CH7 had a disturbing tendency to find some big mouthed "Engineer" who would feed his own ego by making profound statements where a moment's reflection would reveal he was talking nonsense. On one occasion, to supposedly reveal that people were being "ripped off" by TV service companies, instead of calling upon their own internal expertise in Electronic maintenance, they found some tame EE "off the street" to set up a "trap" for the service Techs. To this end, he misadjusted a trimmer inside the TV (too long ago to remember which function was affected) & the butchered TV was sent to various repair shops. They all charged a reasonable amount for finding the fault, but "big head" then pronounced they were overcharging when "all they had to do was adjust a trimmer". Any of 7's multitude of Techs could have told them that if adjustment can "fix" a fault, & there is no obvious sign of tampering, it is foolhardy in the extreme to "just button the thing up & call it good" as the adjustment may be simply masking a real fault. Where does the above relate to Cadogan? Only that he was yet another of their tame "experts". A classic was when he was lecturing everybody about distracted driving whilst spending most of his time looking at the camera as he drove. The thing all such people seem to have in common is having a really great opinion of themselves. |
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