Electric Vehicles are potential death traps
Electric Vehicles are potential death traps
Hello Alberta, Canada (and the World); In addition to the fallacies and lies of so-called “Green Energy” challenged by physicist Mark Mills, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute (see both his video and his paper Green Energy Futility attached), supported by many other scientists, there are VERY serious fire safety and other issues with EV's.
Think twice and do the research ,before buying EV automobiles of any manufacturer, they are potential death traps!
This message presents information covering the disadvantages, environmental issues and serious safety problems associated with lithium-ion Battery Electric Vehicles.
EV’s are subject to 1) potential short circuits during charging, 2) battery damage during even minor accidents and 3) other electrical faults that can result in a smoldering fire followed by a series of explosions of each battery cell.
The resulting fires cannot be easily extinguished with water, and may require special chemical fire suppression.
If an electric vehicle is involved in an accident, no one should touch or attempt to open the vehicle's doors, due to high voltage potential.
Electrocution may be the result.
This can be serious, if someone is trapped inside.
Review the ”Safety Norms”
After opening, click on "Skip to Content" to learn more about EV's and why no one should even consider purchase of and EV from just a safety point of view!
People caught in an EV when it's exploding, or on fire, may be caught in a death trap.
They cannot be saved unless the rescuer has insulated gloves and the specialized equipment necessary, due to the potential of high voltage shocks.
All high voltage electrical systems require specialized training, protective equipment, and precautionary safety measures, to ensure workers safety.
That includes those people working on EV autos, so one needs to be aware of these technical safety requirements.
In the EV automotive industry, high-voltage refers to any voltage over 60 V DC.
Mechanics working on EVs must take extra precautionary safety steps before they can even begin working on an EV.
As a result, extra time and therefore higher costs are added to maintain or repair an EV.
These costs are added to insurance policies due to claims costing much more in time and money.
In fact the lithium-ion batteries themselves lack reparability, leading insurance companies to junk entire cars even after minor collisions if the battery has been damaged in any way.
Considering the $billions and $billions of taxpayer dollars used by corrupt Obama, Trudeau and Biden governments to help their wealthy elitist friends like Buffett, Steyer and Bloomburg build inefficient, unreliable wind turbines and solar energy, and invest in EV battery manufacturing plants, none of this has anything to do with the environment; it's all about money and power.
In just one instance of this stupidity, the Oregon state government has paid $71 million dollars in taxpayer subsidies and incentives for the purchase or lease of 61,000 EV autos, but now the state is broke!
It has been forced to discontinue this taxpayer theft.
In Cochrane Alberta, the town mayor and council have drunk the Trudeau EV cool-aid, planning to convert the town of Cochrane's busses to all electric;
Stupid is as stupid does!
Cochrane taxpayers; it's time you stood and demanded to know why this theft is even being considered??
Our technologically illiterate politicians should be required to read references such as
"Clean Energy Exploitation; Understanding the Environmental and Humanity Abuses that support (the fallacy) of Clean Energy", by Ronald Stein and Todd Royal.
A good start would be if our governments used reason, good sense and logic and completely abandoned so-called green energy!
See the link below to witness serious EV fires of all types of EV’s; including, 2, 3 and 4 wheel drives and buses.
Hear auto expert John Cadogan explain what happens when an individual EV battery cell overheats causing an oxygen/electrolyte fueled thermal runaway fire in the link below.
The battery becomes similar to a blowtorch, and each cell in turn will overheat and explode into flame.
John Robson; see the link below on the lie of Climate Change that supports EV's and the fires that will result!
Stephen Moore: Time to Ban Electric Vehicles
Think about the result, if an EV began to burn in any underground parking lot in a shopping centre or apartment building???
“The devils finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist", Charles Baudelaire
“Hell is empty and all the demons are here”, William Shakespeare, from the Tempest, 1610
Please share this newsletter with anyone even considering the purchase of an EV automobile, they may be sorry!
L. Leugner CD, Auto mechanic and heavy equipment reliability specialist, Warrant Officer, Retired, Royal Canadian Electrical Mechanical Engineers
BATTERY SYSTEM CAPITAL COSTS, OPERATING COSTS, ENERGY LOSSES, AND AGING
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/battery-system-capital...
EXCERPT
General Comments Regarding EV Battery Systems
Grid-scale battery systems are entirely different from the mass-produced battery packs in EVs which operate about 700 hours per year, are warranted to have a loss of no more than 30% of capacity, at end of year 8, in case of Tesla
The cost of a 60-kW replacement battery is about $15,000, or $250/kWh, plus about $2,000 for labor, etc.; 2022 pricing
The cost of EV battery systems may decrease, due to more mass production, but likely will increase, due to: 1) increased inflation rates, 2) increased interest rates, 3) supply chain disruptions, which delay projects and increase costs, 4) increased energy prices, such as of oil, gas, coal, electricity, etc., 5) increased materials prices, such as of tungsten, cobalt, lithium, copper, manganese, etc., 6) increased labor rates.
Who, of rational mind, would replace a battery, at a $17,000 total cost, in an 8-y-old car?
As the Mar 30, 2022 price of tungsten was $320,000/ metric ton, prices of EV battery packs are likely to increase, rather than decrease
https://price.metal.com/Tungsten-Cobalt-Antimony
The purchase price of Tesla EVs (AWD, long range, no extras) are Model 3 ($48,880) and Model Y ($52,130)
Includes destination fee, order fee, as off August 2023.
Excludes state sales taxes, dealer preparation and documentation, and federal tax credits.
Financing at 6.2%/y over 8 years would far exceed any annual fuel cost reduction
Insurance for a Model 3 would cost $1,759 in Vermont, $4,820 in Louisiana
https://www.tesla.com/model3/design#payment
https://www.tesla.com/modely/design#payment
https://www.myamortizationchart.com
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/insurance/tesla-insurance
EVs cost much more to own and operate, and are less capable, and have less range, especially in colder climates, than equivalent gasoline vehicles.
Such price levels are out of reach of 80% of US households, i.e., the EV subsidies and EV charger subsidies, paid for by government benefit mostly upscale households.
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/poor-economics-of-elec...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/electric-bus-systems-l...
NOTE:
China is the world’s biggest market for EVs with total sales of 1.3 million in 2020, more than 40% of global sales that year.
China is the dominant battery pack producer, including anodes and cathodes, which require energy and raw materials , such as lithium, nickel and cobalt, and rare earth metals.
https://moneyweek.com/investments/commodities/industrial-metals/604...
NOTE: Lithium carbonate price was $41,060/metric ton, or $41/kg, on Jan. 3, 2022, about 5 times higher than in Jan. 2021
https://www.mining.com/ev-battery-costs-set-to-rise-in-2022/
NOTE: Pricing means end-user cost, which, in case of:
1) EVs, it is the drive-away cost to a driver, i.e., not just the cost of the battery pack itself
If a driver replaces an EV battery pack, the drive-away replacement cost would be higher
2) Large systems, it is the all-in turnkey cost to a utility to put the system in service.
It is always important to compare A-to-Z pricing, apples to apples
Many journalists and lay people have almost no idea what that means.
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Comment by Willem Post on August 27, 2023 at 4:17pm
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BATTERY SYSTEM CAPITAL COSTS, OPERATING COSTS, ENERGY LOSSES, AND AGING
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/battery-system-capital...
Grid-scale Battery System Owning and Operating Cost for Solar Bulge Control
Battery systems perform various functions during a day, including absorbing the heavily subsidized, midday solar output bulge, and discharging about 81% of it during the peak hours of late-afternoon/early-evening; the other 19% are system losses. See Part 4
Assume, in the morning, the batteries are charge at about 20% full, so they can absorb the bulge to about 80% full.
On many days, there is enough bulge to charge the batteries
In New England, panels are often covered with snow and ice in winter.
On days, with little or no bulge, the batteries are charged with low-cost, night-time electricity
Assumptions for Analysis
- Bank loan 50%; Owner stake 50%.
State governments require investors to have a 50% stake in projects, i.e., “have skin in the game”
- Li-ion systems at $500/kWh for 2023. See Part 1
- Capacity factor of 0.6
- Bank loan, 6%/y for 15 years
- Owner's return on investment, 9%/y for 15 years
- Cost of government subsidies at 50% of total costs
- System loss at 19%, HV AC to HV AC basis. See Parts 2 and 3
- System aging at 1.5%/y is ignored. See Part 7
The 0.30 c/kWh of throughput is significantly understated, because it is based on a very high CF = 0.6, and excludes the cost of system aging
All project costs are paid by ratepayers, taxpayers, and added to government debts.
http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/cost-shifting-is-the-na...
NOTE: Utilities of grid-scale battery systems have the real owning/operating numbers, which they do not make public, because they are “proprietary”
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Capacity, 1.0 MW/4.0 MWh
2022 pricing
2022 li-ion pricing, $/kWh
500
Capital cost, excludes aging, $
2000000
Rating, kWh
4000
Subsidies
50%
Cycles/d
365
Owner financing at 9%/y for 15 y
50%
CF
0.6
Bank financing at 6%/y for 15 y
50%
From HV grid, kWh/y as AC
1081481
Return to Owner, $/y
121712
In battery, kWh/y as DC
973333
Payment to Bank, $/y
101263
To HV grid, kWh/y as AC
876000
Total payments, $/y
222975
System losses, kWh/y
205481
Other costs; O&M, insurance, etc, $/y
40000
Total costs, $/y
262975
Total costs, $/y
262975
Cost, c/kWh of throughput
0.300
Paid to Owner by: c/kWh Government, as subsidies, $/y
131488
0.150
Utility rate payers, $/y
131488
0.150
Total, $/y
262295
0.300
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on August 27, 2023 at 3:12pm
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From Covid to Climate Change: Vehicles for Global Authoritarianism
https://americafirstreport.com/from-covid-to-climate-change-vehicle...
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********
(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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