“EV’s – Electric Vehicles”

Deadly incidents raise safety concerns about batteries used to power electric cars and cellphones

… The Dutch coast guard is investigating whether a deadly fire aboard a car carrier Tuesday originated in one of the electric vehicles onboard. In June, four people died from a fire caused by lithium-ion batteries at an e-bike repair store in New York City, part of a growing trend. There were 74 lithium battery incidents on flights last year, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, and that number rose every year but three during the preceding decade.

Here’s how the batteries work, and how they can malfunction …

So how easy would it be to sabotage an EV battery?

A willful determination to enforce a transformation on this scale, regardless of what markets signal, consumers want, and manufacturers can produce, is an invitation to disaster.

In 1909, a new research paper tells us, cars were very much a luxury good, even in the United States. The average car cost roughly $3,000 at a time when per capita income was $317 and average annual wages in manufacturing $518 (all figures in US$). A manufacturing worker “would have to work for almost six years while consuming nothing in order to afford the average car,” write the paper’s economist-authors, Shari Eli from the University of Toronto and Joshua K. Hausman and Paul W. Rhode from the University of Michigan.

How can an article like this fail to mention that the transition from ICE to EV’s will require a huge investment in infrastructure that is likely to fall far short of requirements, especially in Canada, the country of the Sacred Cash Enviro-Review Payout Machine?

Besides electricity demand just where are those necessary rare earths expected to come from and at what cost? One day the Congo is gonna run out of kids.

A council has been using diesel generators to charge its new electric bin lorry fleet after a problem with their charging stations.

Cardiff Council started transitioning to electric vehicles for its waste collection in 2021 as part of its efforts to hit net zero by 2030.

But it was forced to admit that it was charging the vehicles using diesel generators after a local resident spotted the backup power.

NEW YORK (AP) — The explosion early on a June morning ignited a blaze that engulfed a New York City shop filled with motorized bicycles and their volatile lithium-ion batteries. Billowing smoke quickly killed four people asleep in apartments above the burning store.

As the ubiquity of e-bikes has grown, so has the frequency of fires and deaths blamed on the batteries that power them — sparking a push to better regulate how the batteries are manufactured, sold, reconditioned, charged and stored.

Consumer advocates and fire departments, particularly in New York City, are urging the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to establish national safety standards and confiscate imports that don’t comply with regulations at the border, so unsafe e-bikes and poorly manufactured batteries can be taken off the streets and out of homes.

California drayage trucking companies (which operate in and around ports) are running up against a state-mandated deadline of January 1, 2024, after which any new trucks sold in the state must be zero-emissions. With current technology, that means electric, and the state isn’t ready for more electric trucks.

On July 16, the Wall Street Journal reported that there are fewer than 700 electric-truck chargers at depots in California right now. The state projects it will need 157,000 by 2030.

The race is on to prevent the sinking of a cargo ship off the Dutch coast which is carrying almost 3,000 vehicles, including 350 Mercedes-Benz, as it burns out of control with an electric car believed to be behind the deadly fire.

At least one crew member died and others were injured after fire ripped through the Fremantle Highway, a 18,500-ton car-carrying vessel. Rescue helicopters and boats evacuated 23 crew members from the Panamanian-registered ship.

Officials have said there are ‘many’ wounded. Some suffered broken bones, burns and breathing problems and were taken to hospitals in the northern Netherlands, emergency officials said.

h/t DS via SDA

The Taliban recently announced that, “five countries are interested in investing in the lithium mining sector in Afghanistan’s Nuristan province”. A Chinese company has already put down a $10 billion bid that would include infrastructure along with improved roads for the terror group.

Shahabuddin Delawar, the Taliban’s mining boss, boasted that, “we have 2.5 million tons in Nurestan alone. Extract it, and Afghanistan can be one of the richest countries in the world.”

It was before dawn on April Fool’s Day when I set out from Wawa, Ont., for Thunder Bay in my 2020 all-electric Nissan Leaf. It was the third day of my planned 14,000-kilometre journey from Ottawa to Victoria, returning through the United States.

The temperature was minus nine and there was a howling wind off Lake Superior to the south, blowing sheets of powdery snow across the highway. When I was planning this trip, I knew that this was the day when there would be the fewest opportunities to charge.

EV’s are great city runabouts, for now, for the relatively few early adopters.

But what if everyone wanted one or was left with no choice but to buy an EV by government edict if they needed or just wanted a private vehicle?

You wouldn’t do much running about in your EV thanks to an inadequate energy system unable to handle the massive charging demand.

We know what the end game is. They don’t want you to own a private vehicle ICE or Electric.

You know what country restricts vehicle access and ownership to the ruling family and his cronies? North Korea.

The effort to reduce carbon emissions by transitioning to electric vehicles isn’t going as well as it might seem.

On the bright side, the adoption of electric cars is happening faster than some experts predicted, with sales in the U.S. soaring 65% to 800,000 last year. But the move to electric power for big commercial trucks is stuck in first gear, with only a few thousand on American roads.

Experts say it’s vital to replace millions of diesel-engine tractor-trailers and other big rigs with green alternatives to tackle climate change. Medium- and heavy-duty trucks make up only about 5% of U.S. vehicles but spew about 23% of all greenhouse gases from transportation sources, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

… Beyond the steep price of battery trucks, fleet operators face high expenses and other challenges in constructing charging stations at their depots. Among the hurdles: delays in government approvals, lead times of up to two years in procuring the electrical gear, and trouble getting the local utility to provide the vast amount of power needed.

Electric vehicle owners can expect to take on additional preparations as the summer months heat up and vehicle performance declines.

The United States has broken a number of extreme heat records this year, and millions have received weather advisories as the heat wave is set to continue in the U.S. Southwest. An increase in temperatures means EV drivers may see their car battery power running low more frequently.

Some auto-industry observers are calling it a “field of dreams” moment, but if electric-vehicle makers can’t figure out how to bridge the gap between consumers’ curiosity in the products and their willingness to buy them, it may become a nightmare on Main Street.

The supply of unsold EVs on U.S. dealer lots has swelled 350 per cent so far this year, to more than 92,000 units in June. That’s about three months’ worth of inventory and nearly twice the industry average, according to a new report from Cox Automotive, the people behind the Kelley Blue Book auto-pricing guides.