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what could have caused this 2-month-old BMW i7 to catch fire? Is it the battery?
what could have caused this 2-month-old BMW i7 to catch fire? Is it the battery?
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Terrible!! Why would anyone want an i EV or any other EV after seeing this? EV’s are in their infancy, I would prefer not to be a guinea pig for them.
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Luckily, the battery tech is so unstable and so incapable of functioning in the manner everyone requires (aside from those living in 15-minute city coompods), that EVs have already failed as even the dimmest among us are beginning to realize what a farce it all is. We have neighbors who laid out over 100k on a Tesla and photovoltaic charging system, and no longer even drive due to charging anxiety and the inconvenience of it all. Still waiting for the thing to go up in flames. |
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https://www.motortrend.com/features/...bout-ev-fires/ Sigh, welcome to the weekly anti EV thread. Let's beat this horse some more. (And to stave off the accusations I love EV's, I don't, I don't own one and my next purchase coming up won't be one either. I just get annoyed by misinformation is all.) |
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I had a Mercedes ICE sedan that burst into flames in the driveway in the middle of the night. Any car that has an energy source(gas or electricity) can and does catch fire, unfortunately. |
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That’s true. One significant difference. A few hundred gallons of water and your gas powered car fire is completely extinguished. 40,000+ gallons of water later and the EV car fire might be fully extinguished…or it might not be.
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I can just imagine the only two threads on an EV board... is it the battery..?? Is it the Motor..?? The simple fact is there is so much money being put into the EV industry. It still has a lot of room to grow and develop. Hard to compare mature ICE business to an immature EV. In the long run EV's maintenance is going to win once range anxiety gets solved. |
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I haven't seen any one claim that EV catch fire more often than ICE cars but when they do it's generally not a small localized fire. EV's tend to burn to the ground and are generally hard to extinguish. Maybe if the powers that be were not forcing this technology on us we might not be using EV short comings to point out the folly of the mandates?
By the way do you think the EV fire issue will get worse or better when there are more EV's on the road and the average age of the EV's is older and closer to the expensive battery replacement? Or when the market is filled with cheap Chinese EV's? |
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The US market will never be "filled with cheap Chinese EVs." We don't even permit the import of Chinese cell phones, we're never going to let mobile PLA SIGINT platforms drive around American streets. As to your other question, plenty of EVs have been on the road for a decade+ at this point, and if the rate of these fires is higher, it's not significantly so, and it's still way lower than ICE. |
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actually... zero gallon of water was needed to put out that fire. The fire started with the electronics inside the rear trunk. It basically destroyed the entire trunk and part of the rear seat. However, the fire stopped when all the oxygen inside was consumed. By the time the fire trucks rolled up to my house, there was nothing to put out. The fire marshal took pics and provided me with a report for the insurance company. The actual repair took over 2 months. It was way before the pandemic, so the amount of time was not due to parts shortage, but all the stuff they had to do to restore it. My bill was $1000 for the deductible... GEICO paid close to $10,000 for the rest.
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Hmmm Never say Never
Chinese Automakers Are Knocking on America's Door Dec 14, 2023 The Geely-owned Polestar, Volvo and Lotus are not only sold here, the brands are also investing heavily in U.S. manufacturing. Earlier this year, Polestar said it would move production of its 2 sedan to South Carolina, joining the 3 SUV and Volvo EX90 SUV starting in 2024. "Localized production is more critical than ever, particularly in the growing electric vehicle sector. Geely was an early Chinese auto giant to produce vehicles in the U.S., and it is taking a tactical approach to increasing U.S. production beyond a single car — Volvo's S60 sedan," Paul Waatti, manager of industry analysis at AutoPacific told Newsweek. https://www.newsweek.com/chinese-aut...s-door-1849689 |
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You heard it here first, folks. I left the US over 15 years ago, and had a hard time not purchasing cheap, made-in-China shit--and I was actually trying not to! |
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That fire is not in the battery compartment. That fire is from material ON the left front wheel. Could be anything. Including sabotage. The Anti-EV heads are so rabid as they do attack EV's here, there, and everywhere. I can't imagine the level of dysfunction that is required for that..... Shawn |
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Right EVs are so dangerous and catch fire so often this should be at this point illegal to spread its pure miss information, its been stated over and over and thousand times over again EVs do not catch fire more often then ICE cars the Swedish MSB has shown that on 100 000 vehicles 4 EVs burn on the ICE side it is 36 per 100 000 vehicles. If anything ICE should be definitely banned from being parked in closed areas or being transported on boats.
Claiming EVs are subsided because they aint good while Oil has been subsided sense the 1830s and they still haven't managed to make them more then 25-30% effective that if anything is a sham. How them oils wells doing for ya in the US? Still leaking enormous amount of methane, benzine and other dangerous chemicals out in the environment because guess what oil companies couldn't care less about plugging those damn things properly. Or remember that single gallon of oil can contaminate as much one million gallons of water, hows the BP oil spill going over there? But thats alright to do just so you can fuel up your car in less then one minute at the gas station. You are claiming EVs are in their infancy damn straight they are and yet they are beating ICE vehicles on a daily basis in many areas imagine if EVs had investing in them as much as ice when they first back in the in 1800s imagine where we would be then. But no we chose the oil way unfortunate. And get this firemen have been putting our fires on ICEs sense they came thats about about 200 years of fire fighting ICE fires, i am sure our fire departments will figure out a faster way to put out battery fires in the very near future if they haven't already. Anyone with a decent brain in their head understands this. You are comparing a product thats been around sense our industrial revolution basicly to something that what Tesla in 2008 with their roadster started putting out and now what only 15e years later we are here imagine if all the other automotive companies would have taken EVs seriously 2008 where we would be in comparison to today. So stop the blatant bashing on EVs its getting tiresome.
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