Lithium/water reaction.

[sauerkraut]

The 'Lectric car push will die out when Trump becomes president in 2024, Trump will end the green agenda. They also say our power grid can't handle everyone in a 'lectric car anyhow so a big train wreck is coming if we stay on this green agenda track.
The banning of gas stoves and all fossil fuels to heat the homes is not going to work and will destroy the entire energy sector of the USA but that seem to be the goal of liberals.

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Burning Electric-Vehicle Batteries Complicate Efforts to Fight Fire on Drifting Ship in Atlantic Ocean
The incident could raise questions about the safety of ferrying EVs over long distances at sea

The large number of electric vehicles on board a ship that is drifting ablaze in the Atlantic Ocean is complicating efforts to extinguish the fire, the Dutch experts contracted to salvage the vessel said Sunday.

It is unclear whether the blaze was caused by the electric cars, whose lithium-ion batteries have been known to catch fire, but the presence of burning batteries on board means SMIT Salvage, the company contracted to rescue the ship, is facing fire that spreads fast and cannot be fought with water alone, the company’s owners said.

www.wsj.com/articles/burning-electric-vehicle-batteries-complicate-efforts-to-fight-fire-on-drifting-ship-in-atlantic-ocean-11645385571

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Mar 30, 2023 9:46:08 GMT -5 sauerkraut said:

The 'Lectric car push will die out when Trump becomes president in 2024, Trump will end the green agenda. They also say our power grid can't handle everyone in a 'lectric car anyhow so a big train wreck is coming if we stay on this green agenda track.
The banning of gas stoves and all fossil fuels to heat the homes is not going to work and will destroy the entire energy sector of the USA but that seem to be the goal of liberals.

Well, Marathon just built a brand new gas station in our town.  And NO electric chargers.

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For companies that need to plan years in advance and spend almost a billion on a single engine design, this is where the market is headed for modern transportation power.

General Motors is investing $854 million into its small-block V8 production facilities to prepare to launch the sixth generation of this venerable engine.
This announcement came after a report of a failed battery factory under the LG partnership.
The sixth-generation engine is expected to make more power and be more efficient than the engine it replaces, but details are not yet ready for release.


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Dont want an electric car. Will stick to my gas car and pickup.

[sb]

We need better batteries.

[sauerkraut]

The batteries have a toxic reaction!

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Mar 31, 2023 8:29:09 GMT -5 sb said:

We need better batteries.

The 'Lectric cars of today are really just 'test' cars, in the future they will be totally different and we'll likely have both 'Lectric cars and gas cars on the roads.'Lectric cars can't go far in cold climates the cold zaps the juice plus running a heater on a 'Lectric cars zaps more juice and ya gotta have heat in the car.
The technology is not there- in fact there is likely to be something totally new in the future perhaps some sort of fuel cell or hydrogen car.
When a new administration takes over in 2024 the big push for 'Lectric cars will fizzle out.
Here in America every 4 years there is a total change in our policies and laws so it's hard for any company to make long range plans.

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The technology is not there alright. The mid size Tesla battery weighs around 1200 lbs and contains as much energy as 15 lbs of gasoline. You're lugging that weight with you all the time. When the battery is low and almost discharged ? It still weighs 1200 lbs.