Feeling safer driving my vintage car

[david premo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6_7Dx1yLcs

I watched this video for an electric car that caught on fire and it was mind blowing how much it burned! Hopefully the link will work.
Dave

[Bwk2000]

Can’t open the file, but I’ve seen video of an electric car that still reignited into flames five days after the accident where it first caught fire.

That’s scary stuff …

[redroadster]

There's a video that shows some premo $$$$ electric truck that's 9000lbs and does 0 to 60 in 5 ,6 sec, it also shows crashes between these and reg cars

[redroadster]

https://youtu.be/b18S4-urgho
Freighter fire at sea likely lithium battery fire from EV
A fender bender on a EV , they estimated at $42000
https://www.the-sun.com/motors/8705194/ ... -toll/amp/ Texas wants to charge annual fee $400 for road use on EVs

[Bwk2000]

They need to come up with a Plan B. This heavy reliance on lithium battery tech is just not working the way they thought it would.

[Daryl Smith]

Toyota is claiming to have 'solid state' batteries in their cars in the next couple years. Don't know if that will result in less fires, but, it's possible.
Also supposed to be about 1/2 the weight (for the same range), which would be a huge improvement.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... ctric-cars
"Toyota says it has made a technological breakthrough that will allow it to halve the weight, size and cost of batteries, in what could herald a major advance for electric vehicles."

[Bwk2000]

Interesting. Hadn’t seen that before.
They will eventually get it right and we will all have cars that can do 0-60 in 3 secs, drive 400 miles between charges, take only an hour or less to fully charge and take some solace in knowing we saved a polar bear … somewhere … Eventually.

[rwmann]

Any high capacity, high density store of energy will behave unpredictably under duress, as when abruptly discharged or shorted in an accident. Just look at the trackside precautions taken with a stopped, energized F1 or WEC car, only partial BEVs, or a FE BEV. It requires a completely different approach to emergency intervention.

[redroadster]

They re kind of like super capacitors. ever seen the difference between a normal and super capacitors? There's a YT video of it
I might try one on my starter

[DAC21]

https://youtu.be/b18S4-urgho
Freighter fire at sea likely lithium battery fire from EV
A fender bender on a EV , they estimated at $42000

Yep, and this is why I raised my Collision Liability 50 > 100k which is the highest amount my Car Ins. allows. Specifically, for EVs, and they are a dime a dozen in So. Cal.

[amazgjoe]

A related story but not a car.

https://cnycentral.com/news/local/large ... te-leaders#

[redroadster]

https://youtube.com/shorts/pnzzmQ3gb7k? ... WmK3t6rCsc
Very interesting Tesla self driving vid