There’s one thing weird taking place in Florida proper now. It appears waterlogged electrical autos are catching on hearth after being submerged in floodwaters. Officers say this drawback with electrical automobiles is inflicting an enormous problem for firefighters; as that is one thing they’ve by no means handled earlier than. “There’s a ton of EVs disabled from Ian. As these batteries corrode, fires begin. That’s a brand new problem that our firefighters haven’t confronted earlier than. No less than on this sort of scale,” Jimmy Patronis, Florida’s chief monetary officer and state hearth marshal, tweeted this week. He went on to say that it takes particular coaching and understanding of EVs to make sure these fires are put out rapidly and safely.
Lithium fires are so scorching and so harmful… after which burn for a very long time and take SO MUCH water to get them below management.
One other environmental nightmare.
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It takes particular coaching and understanding of EVs to make sure these fires are put out rapidly and safely. Due to @NCFRPio for his or her onerous work. #Hurricanelan pic.twitter.com/oN0RvQTG2U
— Jimmy Patronis (@JimmyPatronis) October 6, 2022
So, many of those electrical autos that ended up underwater, are actually simply bursting into flames. How scary. Lithium is not any joke, of us.
Yahoo Finance reported that the footage posted to social media reveals the North Collier Hearth Rescue District protecting a white Tesla in water from each above and under to douse any attainable sparks.
Mr Patronis and state Consultant Bob Rommel had been visiting the realm when the district bought the decision about an electrical automobile hearth. They joined the firefighters to see the issues that come up when making an attempt to place out such fires.
“This is a matter many hearth departments throughout [southwest] Florida are experiencing proper now,” the district wrote on Fb. “These autos have been submerged in salt water; they’ve intensive harm and may probably be critical hearth hazards … Nobody was injured on the fireplace, visitors interruption was minimal, and the crews remained on scene with the automobile for hours to make sure it was extinguished.”
In accordance with figures from the Division of Power, Florida is second behind California within the variety of registered electrical automobiles, with greater than 95,000 being pushed across the state in comparison with the Golden State’s 563,000.
Breitbart additionally went on to say that having an electrical automobile throughout hurricane season in Florida will not be the one potential catastrophe EV homeowners face.
This week, a person who purchased a model new $115,000 Hummer electrical truck showcased how he was left stranded in the midst of the street — and the automobile had lower than 250 miles on it.
Equally, a YouTuber not too long ago demonstrated that consumers of GMC’s new electrical Hummer higher clear their calendars if the truck is operating low on battery cost. The video he produced demonstrated that when the $80,000+ electrical automobile (EV) is plugged in to a daily home outlet, it should take over 4 days to completely cost. A particular 240-volt charger nonetheless takes a full day to cost the automobile.
A 3rd, comparable scenario relating to EVs, concerned one other YouTuber — with 1.4 million followers — conducting an experiment together with his model new 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning electrical pickup. The person tried to tow a 1930 Ford Mannequin A truck with the electrical automobile, but it surely led to “a whole and whole catastrophe.”
That is scary, and but once more, one thing else that many individuals didn’t anticipate to occur. Looks as if we’re studying as we go together with electrical automobiles, and as a substitute of taking time to place coaching and processes in place, Biden and his radical local weather changers simply preserve pushing these autos down everybody’s throat.
On high of this, we additionally don’t have the infrastructure to assist these new electrical automobiles, and in lots of circumstances, America simply isn’t arrange for a automobile that wants charging usually for lengthy durations of time. It’s not lifelike for folk that dwell in additional rural areas and journey far distances.
My grandmother had a hybrid that ran on fuel and electrical energy that she cherished. However when the battery went, it was too pricey to repair, so the automobile principally turned a “Junker.”
What an environmental nightmare.
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