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Old November 10th, 2022 #1
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Default Face it: Electric cars don’t do much of anything for the environment

Face it: Electric cars don’t do much of anything for the environment

November 8, 2022

Electric-car sales are up 66% this year.

President Joe Biden promotes them, saying things like “The great American road trip is going to be fully electrified” and “There’s no turning back.”

To make sure we have no choice in the matter, some left-leaning states have moved to ban gas-powered cars altogether.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order banning them by 2035. Oregon, Massachusetts and New York copied California. Washington state’s politicians said they’d make it happen even faster, by 2030.

Thirty countries also say they’ll phase out gas-powered cars.

But this is just dumb. It will not happen. It’s magical thinking.

https://nypost.com/2022/11/08/face-i...e-environment/
 
Old June 5th, 2023 #2
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Default Police officers make surprising discovery after investigating a Tesla that was thought to have caught fire ‘spontaneously’

Police officers make surprising discovery after investigating a Tesla that was thought to have caught fire ‘spontaneously’
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As electric vehicles (EVs) have continued to rise in popularity, they have also been plagued by concerns over battery fires. That includes Teslas, as videos of the company’s cars catching on fire have gone viral and made the news on several occasions.

However, as the National Fire Protection Agency told Vox, reports of Tesla fires are far lower than the rate of highway fires overall, suggesting that EVs are at no more risk of catching on fire than traditional gas-powered cars.

According to Autoweek, fires are actually less frequent in EVs than in traditional gas-powered cars.

Of course, your Tesla is a lot more likely to go up in flames if some guy walks up to it, pours a bunch of gasoline on the hood, and sets it on fire. That’s what happened to one Tesla owner in Spokane, Washington, who was able to use dashcam footage to prove to the police that his EV battery did not spontaneously combust.

The Tesla owner said that local police officers told him at the time that EVs “tend to” catch on fire spontaneously, Electrek reported. He told local news that he was able to determine what happened when he reviewed the dashcam footage.
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