Water and Electric Cars Don’t Mix! By Chris Knight (Florida)
The limits of electric cars have dramatically been seen here in Florida, and I have seen this with my own eyes. Hurricane Ian disabled many electric vehicles. The storm waters have led to a rapid corrosion of the batteries, which spontaneously caught on fire. When you see this first hand, it is unnerving. And these fires are very difficult to put out, as lithium fires have a self-perpetuating nature. Why would anyone with a grain of sanity left, want a society full of such fragile devices? Oh, I forgot … global warming … the Great Reset …
"There's a ton of EVs disabled from Ian. As those batteries corrode, fires start," according to Jimmy Patronis, Florida's top financial officer and fire marshal.
Patronis tweeted Thursday that after Hurricane Ian made landfall last week and flooded regions of his state, a bunch of electric vehicles (EVs) were caught in floods, batteries were waterlogged, and some spontaneously caught on fire.
He said, "that's a new challenge that our firefighters haven't faced before. At least on this kind of scale."
"It takes special training and understanding of EVs to ensure these fires are put out quickly and safely," he continued in another tweet. "Thanks to [North Collier Fire Rescue] for their hard work."
Patronis tweeted a video of firefighters in Naples spraying thousands of gallons of water on a flooded Tesla EV's battery as it smolders in the city street.
There was no word on how many EVs were disabled or caught on fire due to the widespread flooding last week. But what is becoming apparent is that fire departments in the state are unequipped to handle lithium battery fires.
Under the Biden administration's push to electrify road vehicles to allegedly save the planet from man-made carbon emissions, greenies fail to acknowledge the environmental costs of EV mishaps and fires that are associated with it.”
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