Thread: EV reality

Originally Posted by goingbush

I cant blame anyone for having such opinions / the internet is so full of such false information, & its very prevalent in AULRO .

All Lithium batteries are not created equal.

There is a lot of scaremongery & false info about EV batteries due to R/C model, Drone & Scooter batteries .

Yes Phones & computer batteries have Lithium batteries But do you know of or ever heard of one catching fire . I sure as hell would not charge them in the house of they were dangerous . You would not be allowed to bring them onto aircraft if that was the case ( Like RC batteries are banned)

Likewise EV batteries dont just die after 5 years like a Phone or Computer battery does . Mine is 6 years old & I'm only about 500 charge cycles into an estimated 3000 . It will last another 25 years in my scenario.

A battery in a recycle yard can't just catch fire of its own accord. There are more cases of instentanious human combustion than battery fires.

Its a Fact that ICE cars are far more likely to catch fire & burn than a EV .

EV batteries are very easy to recycle, the best scenario is repurposing in House battery or Grid backup battery . Not to mention EV Conversions . Any smashed EV are soon stripped & sold off for EV conversions , No EV batteries end up in scrap yards , just your evil Phone & computer batteries .

Time will tell. I'm certainly not a believer until proven otherwise I have no dog in this fight so don't really mind either way. However I simply don't believe those batteries are going to last. and yes, the are torching off quite often. That airport carpark in UK was obviously taken out by the lithium battery in the range rover hybrid ..... lets not talk, busses, trucks .... even just the batteries alone are torching off (those big telsa batteries hooked up to the power grid)

All cars burn, the issue i have with lithium battery fires is they can't be put out .... all you can do is run for your life. Imagine if that cement truck that torched itself in australia had been in a tunnel ......

I'd rekcon an electric car should be something liek the citroen oli .... small, functional, little battery .... enough to do the majories daily driving duties.



I'm not anti-electric car ... I'm anti-stupidity. and the electric car just isn't there yet IMO .... and I'd have to be stupid to even consider one.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

Time will tell. I'm certainly not a believer until proven otherwise I have no dog in this fight so don't really mind either way. However I simply don't believe those batteries are going to last. and yes, the are torching off quite often. That airport carpark in UK was obviously taken out by the lithium battery in the range rover hybrid ..... lets not talk, busses, trucks .... even just the batteries alone are torching off (those big telsa batteries hooked up to the power grid)

All cars burn, the issue i have with lithium battery fires is they can't be put out .... all you can do is run for your life. Imagine if that cement truck that torched itself in australia had been in a tunnel ......

I'd rekcon an electric car should be something liek the citroen oli .... small, functional, little battery .... enough to do the majories daily driving duties.



I'm not anti-electric car ... I'm anti-stupidity. and the electric car just isn't there yet IMO .... and I'd have to be stupid to even consider one.

!00% Agree .
You didnt initially mention Hybrid. Hybrids are a huge problem. WAY more likely to catch fire than ICE . EV are far less likely to catch fire than iCE . Hybrid combines the worst of ICE & the worst of EV into one package . I'd never ever own one, you have to be totally mad to think they are a good thing.

And Yes also in agreeance EV should be small runabouts ,
Why cart about a huge battery in an expensive car when 99% of trips are less than 100km. For the other 1% take the bus or an ICE car.

Originally Posted by goingbush

!00% Agree .
You didnt initially mention Hybrid. Hybrids are a huge problem. WAY more likely to catch fire than ICE . EV are far less likely to catch fire than iCE . Hybrid combines the worst of ICE & the worst of EV into one package . I'd never ever own one, you have to be totally mad to think they are a good thing.

Can't see why a Yota Hybird would catch fire - they have Nickel Metal Hydride batteries in them - they haven't even got to the Lithium stage yet, but some PHEV's might. Some Prius's caught fire around 5 years ago and Toyota recalled a ****load to fix this but I haven't heard this being an issue recently.

I'm all ears on why a Hybrid is so terrible - My partner has a RAV4 Hybrid as a work car and it does 4.7 Litres per hundred around town and 6.5 on the highway with no worries ever of range anxiety. It's bloody comfy to drive too. I think some people think there's magic inside that will save them petrol on long trips which is where the Hybrid is at it's worst but it still isn't bad on the juice even then IMO. She has roofracks on the car all the time too for both work stuff and our Kayaks on the weekend so that has added around 0.5 per 100 to the usage on the highway. It's amid spec vehicle and was around $45K on the road a couple of years back, which makes them much more affordable than an EV as well. Maybe I'm missing something but after 2 years of ownership we haven't seen a downside - it's actually one of the best cars we've had.

Originally Posted by Homestar

Can't see why a Yota Hybird would catch fire - they have Nickel Metal Hydride batteries in them - they haven't even got to the Lithium stage yet, but some PHEV's might. Some Prius's caught fire around 5 years ago and Toyota recalled a ****load to fix this but I haven't heard this being an issue recently.

I'm all ears on why a Hybrid is so terrible - My partner has a RAV4 Hybrid as a work car and it does 4.7 Litres per hundred around town and 6.5 on the highway with no worries ever of range anxiety. It's bloody comfy to drive too. I think some people think there's magic inside that will save them petrol on long trips which is where the Hybrid is at it's worst but it still isn't bad on the juice even then IMO. She has roofracks on the car all the time too for both work stuff and our Kayaks on the weekend so that has added around 0.5 per 100 to the usage on the highway. It's amid spec vehicle and was around $45K on the road a couple of years back, which makes them much more affordable than an EV as well. Maybe I'm missing something but after 2 years of ownership we haven't seen a downside - it's actually one of the best cars we've had.

I just worry about carrying around the dead battery when the car is about 5years old. It would be statistically like winning tattslotto for the battery to torch off... .but there has been a ****load of people winning tattlotto lately ... taking parking structures, entire ships .... etc with them.



This is what took out the airport carpark in the UK. a range rovers battery torched off. It's probably an 8 year old battery than decided it was done .... So it torches off and ignites the electric cars around it and we have a fire that is hot enough to melt concrete and metal (so we take the entire building out due to a small lithium battery).

scary right?

I'm for electric cars when we can swap the batteries like we can in a power drill. Until then, they are just insanely expensive due to battery replacement (and no doubt soon disposal) costs. Ican see these things become immensely expensive to dispose of as they are so dangerous (forgetting the fact they are incredibly difficult to recycle ... if it is even possible).

The actual idea of electric cars is brilliant.... But this push to tell everyone they must have one is insane. There isn't enough raw materials to build even a fraction of the batteries we need, there isn't the charging infrastructure. the isnt' the power network across the world to charge them (as it is on hot/cold days, most 1st world countries are running out of power generation capacity). Most people don't live somewhere they can can charge them overnight ( do you want hundreds of thousands of extension leads running across footpaths from the houses out onto the streets charging cars?).

The hysteria around electric cars is just insane, and I don't quite understand it. They will simply become a small part of the transport infrastructure driven by those that want them .... and that's the end of the story. The mandates and insanity being rammed down everyones throat is just crazy. I don't like the pro or anti electric car stuff that is going on.... I'm a car junkie and I like cars ... I couldn't care if other peoples tastes are different to mine... infact, this is a part of what makes cars interesting. Just let people make there own choices and be done with it

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Shane L.

Originally Posted by goingbush

Yes Phones & computer batteries have Lithium batteries But do you know of or ever heard of one catching fire . I sure as hell would not charge them in the house of they were dangerous .

Err, Samsung Galaxy Note 7?? Banned from aircraft precisely because they caught fire.

Originally Posted by goingbush

I cant blame anyone for having such opinions / the internet is so full of such false information, & its very prevalent in AULRO .

All Lithium batteries are not created equal.

There is a lot of scaremongery & false info about EV batteries due to R/C model, Drone & Scooter batteries .

Yes Phones & computer batteries have Lithium batteries But do you know of or ever heard of one catching fire . I sure as hell would not charge them in the house of they were dangerous . You would not be allowed to bring them onto aircraft if that was the case ( Like RC batteries are banned)

Likewise EV batteries dont just die after 5 years like a Phone or Computer battery does . Mine is 6 years old & I'm only about 500 charge cycles into an estimated 3000 . It will last another 25 years in my scenario.

A battery in a recycle yard can't just catch fire of its own accord. There are more cases of instentanious human combustion than battery fires.

Its a Fact that ICE cars are far more likely to catch fire & burn than a EV .

EV batteries are very easy to recycle, the best scenario is repurposing in House battery or Grid backup battery . Not to mention EV Conversions . Any smashed EV are soon stripped & sold off for EV conversions , No EV batteries end up in scrap yards , just your evil Phone & computer batteries .

That made me chuckle thanks! Watch, Computer, portable sat GPS for hiking, EPIRB, Defibrator.............

My dad did get a dodgy cheap e-bike years ago. It did burn

Insurance on my new one is $$1501.47

Of a side note the insurance on my 2010 Disco was very close

As noted in another thread a battery swap was done on another car here. Under a day. A battery swap IF needed in five years with the New tech which is expected to be 40% cheaper by 2030 may or may not be needed If it was my current 400km (ish) range will be 1200km ish.

It's amazing the anti 'this or that' we all can see. Facts and physics are more interesting than the BS from either side

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

That made me chuckle thanks! Watch, Computer, portable sat GPS for hiking, EPIRB, Defibrator.............

My dad did get a dodgy cheap e-bike years ago. It did burn

Insurance on my new one is $$1501.47

Of a side note the insurance on my 2010 Disco was very close

As noted in another thread a battery swap was done on another car here. Under a day. A battery swap IF needed in five years with the New tech which is expected to be 40% cheaper by 2030 may or may not be needed If it was my current 400km (ish) range will be 1200km ish.

It's amazing the anti 'this or that' we all can see. Facts and physics are more interesting than the BS from either side

Batteries will never get cheaper unless we get a new technology. Demand drives pricing ... and demand far exceeds supply.



I'm all for electric cars, but am tired of the downplaying or outright lying that seems to be everywhere about them. the fire statistics if you google it are just laughably badly recorded. even when pictures and videos show electric cars or batteries torching off .... its not listed as a battery fire ... that new zealand fire there is video of the car torching the house off ... "not related to the electric car". The parking garage in the UK. "a diesel range rover started the fire". FFS: the lithium battery on it torched off. it was nothing to do with the diesel part of the car. That would have been a fire that could be controlled and not taken out the parking structure.

I'm not anti-electric, but I HATE being lied to. especially when the statistics that are playing in the media are so obviously far from factual.

I also posted this on the EV - Battery fires its all media hype? thread on the Whirlpool forum, it's likely to be deleted like my last post which they considered trolling.

The software this fire chief uses to identify how to deactivate cars is interesting. Ditto his comments on the battery pack segments in this particular vehicle being physically isolated from each other.