Electric Cars are toys for the rich. Heard they cost double the insurance costs of petrol engined cars and tyres cost twice as much and don't last as long either and instant combustible too
Laughter - Good point. I have 3 petrol engined cars all registered for road use, but I only use one, the smallest - an electric car is never going to happen for me this lifetime. Someone has a Tesla, I've seen it around, hope they recharge it in their home's garage so that when it instantly combusts it won't be "look at me - look at how important I am"
When these electric cars combust, they can't be put out - saw a demonstration of trying to put one out by the Fire Brigade, nothing worked - they even covered the car with a tarpaulin overnight and choked out all air to the car, so it ceased burning, but when they took the tarp off, it re-combusted and carried on burning until there was just a hole in the road, through the tar-seal, where it once stood.
Read that tires wear out 2 times faster and insurance on these things is double what it is for petrol engine cars and with them being 2G, 3G, 4G, though I don't really understand that, it seems that if the batteries don't die first, the "G" rating might, making them inoperable anyway.
there's a great meme going around.
picture of an electric vehicle on fire with plumes of black smoke rising.
text: when electric cars spontaneously combust, are they still considered zero-emission vehicles? asking for a friend.
Laughter - Good point. I have 3 petrol engined cars all registered for road use, but I only use one, the smallest - an electric car is never going to happen for me this lifetime. Someone has a Tesla, I've seen it around, hope they recharge it in their home's garage so that when it instantly combusts it won't be "look at me - look at how important I am"
When these electric cars combust, they can't be put out - saw a demonstration of trying to put one out by the Fire Brigade, nothing worked - they even covered the car with a tarpaulin overnight and choked out all air to the car, so it ceased burning, but when they took the tarp off, it re-combusted and carried on burning until there was just a hole in the road, through the tar-seal, where it once stood.
Read that tires wear out 2 times faster and insurance on these things is double what it is for petrol engine cars and with them being 2G, 3G, 4G, though I don't really understand that, it seems that if the batteries don't die first, the "G" rating might, making them inoperable anyway.