Subj : Re: EVs Disabled, Explodi
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Mon Oct 10 2022 18:05:53

On 10 Oct 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> > Fossil-fuel-powered vehicles also tend to become disable in floods, and 
 MP> > their own documented explosion risks in another type of "natural" disast
 MP> > namely wildfires.
 MP> Difference being that you can use a gas powered vehicle to escape either
 MP> when the electric is out,

With the range of modern electric vehicles, one can still escape a wildfire
or a flood, especially if one does not wait until the last minute.
Additionally, one might not take all of one's vehicles with.

 MP> and the gas powered vehicle explodes in the
 MP> fires, when any living people have likely fled, not after the fires are
 MP> gone.

People often wait until the fires are on their doorstep, attempting to keep
it at bay with garden hoses or fire breaks, etc., before fleeing. Others
don't, just as many people heed warnings and evacuate, waiting until flooding
has subsided to return.

 MP> You also don't have to replace a "cost as much as a gas powered car"
 MP> battery after a flood with a gas powered car.  I know people who bought
 MP> Katrina cars cheap, fixed them at little expense, and got several more
 MP> years out of them.  If they'd been EVs, there would be no such thing as
 MP> "little expense."

That would depend on your level of insurance. The depth of the floodwaters is
a fairly important consideration as well.

 MP> > Also, the increases in the number and intensity of both hurricanes and
 MP> > wildfires has been shown to be the result of man-made climate change*, a
 MP> > fossil-fuel-powered vehicles are responsible for the release of far more
 MP> > greenhouse gasses and other pollutants than electric vehicles.
 MP> And most of them are being charged by fossil-fueled power plants.

Some, but not all.

Jeff.

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