My latest EV project

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Davo99 Guru Joined: 03/06/2019 Location: Australia Posts: 1586	Posted: 08:32am 22 Feb 2022         Godoh said   Looks fantastic. Electric cars are taking a battering lately. The ship that has caught fire carrying cars from Germany to the U.S. has some electric cars on board. The batteries in the electric cars are being blamed for making the fire harder to put out. Hadn't heard of that but then again, I make an effort to avoid watching the brainwash.... fictio.....News these days. I occasionally skim the headline and that's about it. I have seen a couple of vids of those Tesla packs catch fire when someone did the wrong thing with them and they seem near impossible to put out. In one the fire brigade came and pretty much contained the fire so it didn't spread and tried to stop the other cells from exploding by keeping them cool but some went off like bullets. I believe the life 04's are different and either don't burn or don't burn as energetically. I had one of those jump pack starters do a run away on me.  I have NEVER seen so much smoke come out of a package that size before nor would I have thought it possible. The volume and thickness as well as the duration was astounding. Could have filled a large all with it cause it certainly filled my back yard and many meters above it.   Quote   I am guessing there may be some petrol industry marketing man in there pushing their line a bit. Well there is always that but I wonder if they are remotely worried?  Going to be 50 years before they even need be concerned I reckon and they will just lower the price to keep the profits flowing and undermine the take up of electric. I really wonder if electrics will be anything near what the hype makes out? If grid power get as unreliable as I'm pretty certain it's going to in this country, then that will be the biggest handbrake to their uptake and the distances we travel here. Their uptake is lagging WAAAY behind the predictions but Predictions are more fantasy and hype to push an agenda than anything based on reality. I think the last big prediction I read forecast there should be about 150Million less of us on the planet than there are atm.  :0)