Re: Frank and his electric car

On 3/10/2024 11:53 AM, Tom Kunich wrote:

Frank, here is a statement from the National Highway Traffic Safety Board
 "In August 2012, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) decided to begin a US$8.75 million study of whether lithium-ion batteries in plug-electric vehicles pose a potential fire hazard. ... The report concluded, "...ignition of flammable electrolytic solvents used in Li-ion battery systems are anticipated to be somewhat comparable to or perhaps slightly less than those for gasoline or diesel vehicular fuels. The overall consequences for Li-ion batteries are expected to be less because of the much smaller amounts of flammable solvent released and burning in a catastrophic failure situation."

Read that again, Tom. And perhaps get a high school student to help you understand it.

Right there it says that EV fires are about as often as gasoline fires on ICE vehicles.

No, that's not what it said. And sadly, the dismal reading comprehension that caused you to misunderstand will also make my explanation incomprehensible. Still, out of excessive charity, I'm going to try to explain!
The study you referred to POTENTIAL fires, and ANTICIPATED EV fires to be the same or less than gasoline or diesel fires.
The data since then shows that in practice, ACTUAL EV fires are far, far less common than gasoline or diesel fires.
The study was saying "Hmm, this might happen." The data is saying "This is what's actually happened."
(If you do come around to understanding that, you should give that high school student a nice tip.)

I realize that you believe that buying an EV proves your God-like judgement but if I were you I would put very many very loud fire detectors around your home. And keep their batteries up to date.

If you were me, you'd have excellent reading comprehension, you'd understand how to interpret data, you'd make far fewer mechanical mistakes, you'd make far fewer failed predictions of disasters, you'd not have lost investment money when the stock market surged under Obama, you'd live in a far nicer community, you'd be far less fearful, and you'd be far, far happier.
But you are not anything like me. Sorry, Tom, deal with it.
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- Frank Krygowski