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Electric Car, Sitting In Driveway, Burns House 05/02/2024 Firefighters were able to eventually extinguish the fire, but you can see in video footage the car was gutted. It’s safe to say the EV, whatever brand it was, is a total loss. |
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Electric car driver turned away from hospital car park
A father who was taking his child to Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool says he was turned away from the car park because he was driving an electric vehicle (EV). Paul Freeman-Powell said he was told to park next to nearby grass because his car "could explode." The hospital says it has temporarily banned access to the car park while it improves its sprinkler system. Lots of good anti ICE quotes for those so inclined, It is the BBC of course. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c90zjne2v0jo |
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So, I’ll just pose this question again. I have yet to see it addressed. What would be your plan for charging if you lived in a vintage apartment/condominium building in Chicago and you only had street parking and you parked in a different place every time you drove your car? My guesstimation is this applies to at least 50% of the cars in the city of Chicago.
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You wonder how many times he can take a large steaming dump on his Teslaites before they say no thanks.
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk said that the company is working to get approvals to add more range for its older rear-wheel-drive (RWD) Model Y SUV vehicles for an extra fee. His announcement came as the company launched a new version of its long-range RWD in the U.S. at an estimated range of 320 miles, the longest in the Model Y lineup. The latest variant replaces the previous entry-level Model Y RWD, which had a range of only 260 miles. However, owners of older RWD vehicles can get another 40 to 60 miles of range for $1500 to $2000, Elon Musk said on his X platform, adding that the company is working to get approvals to implement the change. He noted that the pay-to-unlock facility will apply for vehicles built "over the past several months" and depends on the type of battery employed in the 260-mile Model Y. "We have to pay the bills somehow," Musk said as the reason for the extra charge. |
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I still expect the real issue with EV parking structures is low ceilings limiting the proper clearance for the right fire equipment for controlling EV fires. Not to mention need for ventilation from toxic out gassing from burning LiPo's.
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And yet it’s never been answered.
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Orders of magnitude more public fast chargers? That would help, but that's not how you should be recharging these batteries all the time either. (They don't care.) Forcing developers to put in Level 2 charging everywhere? They'll just forward the cost it into rent/leases, making them even less affordable than they already are. (They also don't care.) The true answer is that the people at the top don't care. They don't want you to be able to go anywhere or be able to charge. With any luck, EV fires will burn down entire cities, in which case they'll finally be able to rebuild from the ground up with their dreams of 15 minute cities, where you'll be eating the bugs and living in pods. You'll own nothing and be happy, jacked up on their pharma concoctions.
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It's not about EVs succeeding, it's about the idea of people being mobile losing. Once you view everything thru that lens, racking your brain on the dozens of reasons why EVs aren't tenable on a mass scale are irrelevant to the discussion.
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I live in a relatively new condo building in Chicago with a 180 space parking garage. Even though my building is relatively new it does not have the necessary electrical infrastructure to accommodate any charging stations. It so happens that my building houses an electric company electrical vault that serves our entire neighborhood, so the cost for us to install the necessary infrastructure to be able to add charging stations in our garage is roughly half of what it would be if that electrical vault was not already in place. And the cost for us to do the infrastructure installation would be over $300,000. That’s just the basic electric infrastructure. The cost to install the chargers throughout our garage would probably be $3000 - $4000 per charger. That’s a total cost to the owners in my building approaching $1 million.
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I'd have a well read copy of the condo by laws with you when you go. I'll bet this exact scenario is playing out over thousands of condos and HOA's all over the world. I wish you well. |
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At my suggestion we will soon be buying a couple of fire blankets in case of any vehicle fire, but in particular an EV fire. We have three or four Teslas in our garage. The very first one does have a charging station the board agreed to allow the owner to install and that’s when they found out the garage can’t accommodate any others. I think I’ve mentioned before our two level garage is directly under our condominiums and the thought of an EV fire (or heaven forbid multiple EVs on fire) is absolutely chilling.
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