Is an EV Gladiator Better Off-Road Than a Traditional Gas Jeep - Let's Find Out! [TFL]

[Deleted member 57233]

Let me post your meme for you

Whats conspiracy about facts btw, can you disprove/dispute his claims or just gonna to lalalalala

I honestly quit reading after "insurance mafia" and The World Economic Forum conspiracy to herd all of humanity into cities because they control all the world's governments. ?

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[MF Comics]

I honestly quit reading after "insurance mafia" and The World Economic Forum conspiracy to herd all of humanity into cities because they control all the world's governments. ?

“A brand-new (2023) Mercedes EQE just went up in smoke – and so did the home of the person who parked it there.

The spontaneously combusting EV burned so hot, so fast, that the flames engulfed the house, resulting in a total loss of both car and house.

The Mercedes EV was not hooked to a charger when this conflagration occurred



It was just parked.

Several thoughts come to mind.


There is another aspect of this that’s very interesting, in a Catch-22 kind-of-way. Given the risk of an auto da fe it is risky to park an EV in or even near a garage. Prudence dictates parking it as far away from the house as possible.

But then how do you charge the EV?

EVs use specific charge cords; you cannot use an extension cord. The charge box that comes with the EV will detect an impedance difference between the supplied power cord/charge box) and an extension cord, if you try to use that to bridge the gap between an outlet in your garage and wherever the car is parked (and the factory supplied cord won’t reach). You are forced to park close enough for the factory supplied cord to reach. Assuming you want to charge the car at home – the latter being one of the primary touted conveniences of owning an EV. You don’t have to visit “dirty” gas stations anymore.

But you can’t charge at home, at all, if the cord won’t reach the outlet.


So, what do you do? Run the risk of the car – and the house – burning up? And then being homeless as well as car-less? Or accept having to drive (and wait) somewhere else to get a charge?

As word about this gets out, expect hesitancy (as it will be styled) about buying EVs to go up.

There is one other thing to consider as well.

In the past, when a dangerous defect got into production that put people who bought that carat risk of injury or death, it was easy enough to confine the damage by recalling that car. But EVs are not like other cars in that many of them are the same car – as regards the defect. The all-fired-up EQE sedan, for instance, is just a body on a “skate.” Underneath it lies the same battery that lies underneath the EQE SUV. And probably also the EQS sedan.

And the problem isn’t a defect.

It is the design.

All currently-in-production EVs use essentially-the-same lithium-ion batteries as energy storage devices. These batteries contain thousands of individual cells, each of them a potential source of spontaneous combustion. It is not a defect in that it cannot be remedied except by not using lithium-ion batteries to store power.


The problem is, every EV for sale right now does use them. And the fact is they can and have and will spontaneously combust, something that never happens with gas-powered cars. To get the latter to catch fire, you have to work at it. First, the gas has to spill or leak. And then it takes a spark. A parked non-EV that isn’t leaking is as unlikely catch fire as Joe Biden is to propose abolishing the IRS. It is conceivable it might happen – the gas fire – but the odds against it happening are astronomically in favor of it never happening.

EVs catching fire, on the other hand, seem to be happening all the time. Are happening. Two weeks ago, a cargo ship full of them. A few months back, brand-new F150 Lightnings that hadn’t even been shipped to dealers yet. Numerous Teslas. Audis. And a sufficient number of Chevy Bolts to warrant recalling all 60,000 of them.”

there, without the “New World Order” and “Insurance Mafia” speak, just for you.

Still going lalalala or gonna try and pick this apart and defend Battery powered vehicles

 

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[Deleted member 57233]

I live in an area where nearly everyone parks on the street. I see lots of EVs charging just fine with extension cords.

So with the whole article being built around the false statement on extension cords, and the insurance mafia statements, and the world economic forum "new world order" talk, this blogger has lost all credibility, and I'm not going to believe anything they say.

 

[Oilburner]

I live in an area where nearly everyone parks on the street. I see lots of EVs charging just fine with extension cords.

Might work ok at Really low charge rate in the desert, but how would that work out during rain or under a foot of snow? Much less all those 'free' chargers sitting right there on the street ripe for the picking...

 

[Deleted member 57233]

Might work ok at Really low charge rate in the desert, but how would that work out during rain or under a foot of snow? Much less all those 'free' chargers sitting right there on the street ripe for the picking...

We aren't talking about the little orange extension cords you used to power your tools with here. They make weatherproof, high voltage extension cords. We get rain, snow, 110F in the summer, below zero in the winter, and extreme UV. I have a 100 foot cord rated at 250V and 100 amps that I use with my welder, more than enough for an EV.

 

[MF Comics]

Random, but are you a native Idahoan Staches?

 

[j.o.y.ride]

I live in an area where nearly everyone parks on the street. I see lots of EVs charging just fine with extension cords.

So with the whole article being built around the false statement on extension cords, and the insurance mafia statements, and the world economic forum "new world order" talk, this blogger has lost all credibility, and I'm not going to believe anything they say.

So there's just extension cords running across the sidewalks?

 

[Deleted member 57233]

So there's just extension cords running across the sidewalks?

Yeah, sometimes. Some people run them under, and since sidewalks aren't required, some houses don't have them lol. There is a house next to me that made a cool fake rock charger outlet next to the curb.

 

[MF Comics]

Yeah, sometimes. Some people run them under, and since sidewalks aren't required, some houses don't have them lol. There is a house next to me that made a cool fake rock charger outlet next to the curb.

Oh good, so when the cars burst into flames out of nowhere, they won't burn down the neighborhood

 

[j.o.y.ride]

Yeah, sometimes. Some people run them under, and since sidewalks aren't required, some houses don't have them lol. There is a house next to me that made a cool fake rock charger outlet next to the curb.

They just ran a bare extension cord under the sidewalk? Sounds very not up to code.

I'd enjoy seeing pics of these cords strewn about.

 

[Deleted member 57233]

They just ran a bare extension cord under the sidewalk? Sounds very not up to code.

I'd enjoy seeing pics of these cords strewn about.

Idaho isn't big on code and regulations, we are bit more wild west on how we do things here ?

When I bought my house, the inspector basically said "nothing is to code" and gave me a packet of things he found not to code. The bank didn't even blink.

I haven't looked closely, but I doubt many of them direct buried the extension cords. Not hard to run some conduit. Although the other day I saw someone ran conduit under the sidewalk and up a tree, then used baling wire to tie an outlet box to the tree so they could run lights, so who knows lol

 

[bleda2002]

Idaho isn't big on code and regulations, we are bit more wild west on how we do things here ?

When I bought my house, the inspector basically said "nothing is to code" and gave me a packet of things he found not to code. The bank didn't even blink.

I haven't looked closely, but I doubt many of them direct buried the extension cords. Not hard to run some conduit. Although the other day I saw someone ran conduit under the sidewalk and up a tree, then used baling wire to tie an outlet box to the tree so they could run lights, so who knows lol

My uncle and cousins are big on Teslas. When we visit for the holidays the driveway and sidewalk is covered in extension cords running power out to all of them.

 

[MF Comics]

 

[KX L]

I'll bring it home. The video is interesting and provocative. I drive a gasoline Gladiator and love it. We are in the golden/final age of IC engines. Some of the best examples ever made, exist right now. Still, I can't wait for a fully sorted electric version! I bet that's soon (less than five years).

It's fine to love an electric vehicle---just don't think for even a second that your doing the world wide environment any good.

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