Thread: EV general discussion

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

I'd still take a o- boat

Ah, the Old "I'd like to get you on the slow (O) boat to China" Nothing personal you understand, it's a song from the 40s, 50s 60s ish.

"goes on, "all to myself alone" Gets worse eh?

Peggy Lee & Bing Crosby - Slow boat to China - YouTube

Originally Posted by TonyC

So, will the electric Land Cruiser make it across Darwin Harbour?

'''Rust bucket''' 1978 LandCruiser converted to EV to drive 7km under water across Darwin Harbour — again - ABC News

Were the diesel one failed 35 years ago

How a car drove across the sea floor of Darwin Harbour 35 years ago - ABC News


Will this prove EVs are better off road 😉

Well they made it, it took 12 hours to cover 7km

LandCruiser '''Mudcrab''' driven 7km under water across Darwin Harbour - ABC News

So no surprises here really - Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

Cheaper to pay some poor Muppet to divert an appointment rather than actually address the customers concerns.

have to say it was a adventure





LandCruiser 'Mudcrab' driven 7km under water across Darwin Harbour - ABC News

Floating over pipeline or when bogged is Diving cool! The bit about curious crocodiles did cross my mind

A while ago some one questioned making my boat electric. Still waiting for the power option I need- DOH

Runaway 500 EV meltdown on cargo ship: Proof our cities aren't ready for full EV deployment - YouTube

Just came across this, was on LR Times and spotted in side panel.

While I like quite a lot of John’s work, this video isn’t one of them. When the original video went to air (now gone) he made assumptions about the cause (EV’s) when there was no proof of this at the time. Was a bit of gutter journalism like so many others. This linked video has some corrections in it and it’s quite different to the original so he must have figured out it wasn’t his best work.

Originally Posted by Homestar

While I like quite a lot of John’s work, this video isn’t one of them. When the original video went to air (now gone) he made assumptions about the cause (EV’s) when there was no proof of this at the time. Was a bit of gutter journalism like so many others. This linked video has some corrections in it and it’s quite different to the original so he must have figured out it wasn’t his best work.

There was an original?

I'm not subscribed to this guy as I know what you mean about his assumptions and sometimes inflammatory comments.

But one thing is regardless of how it started they are going to have to come up with solutions to this type of multi EV fire situation, especially if it happened in a multi-storey car park.

Yes. I watched one on Friday night and couldn’t find it last night when you posted the link but it is there again now so maybe I just missed it. The ship caught fire 4 days ago and his original video was when no firefighter had set foot on the ship and he said it was likely that a thermal runaway from an EV caused the fire when there was no data at all about the potential cause of it - which was the same line being fed out by mainstream media at the time so I’m guessing he based his video off these reports.

he also has a go in this video about ‘it doesn’t matter what caused the fire’ and some stuff on battery fires - which I do agree with - nasty stuff.

It’s more about him jumping the gun and not being unbiased like I’ve found him to be rather than what happened. I think it’s clear now the batteries from 500 EV’s are causing huge issues.