EV’s are really cool until they catch fire. Then, they’re not. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
As if another demonstration were needed, another battery-powered device has gone up in smoke – this time, taking an entire manufacturing facility along for the ride.
More than 100 firefighters – and a Hazmat team – worked to put out the Four Alarm Fire (signifying a catastrophic blaze) at the GM Design Studio in Pasadena, CA after an EV prototype spontaneously combusted last week. The three story, 149,000 structure is now a smoldering ruin, with palls of toxic smoke marking the epicenter.
Pasadena Fire Department Spokeswoman Lisa Derderian said – in the aftermath – “This is one of the largest structure fires we’ve had in Pasadena in many, many years.”
That’s how much damage – to a building – one EV fire can cause. And people wonder why the cost of insurance, both car and home, is going ballistic.
Defenders of the Faith will say: EV fires are statistically rare! This is true, sort of – in that there are still not many EVs in general circulation; they constitute about 8 percent of the total number of vehicles on the road and the bulk of that 8 percent is concentrated in areas such as Southern California and Blue Hive cities/suburbs such as Washington, DC and its perimeter counties in Northern Virginia and Maryland.
A cool Talking Heads song as well.
Virtue Signal might go up in flames after spending all that money?
Honk, honk, goes the electric car horn.