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[@HarryLime49]

If EV chargers are safe put them underneath government offices with no fire precautions whatsoever.

[@Michael-jx9bh]

Or require the EV proponents to practise what they preach. Both in their homes and places of work. Unless their place of work is a Heritage site or the like. The risk may not be all that high, but the consequences are dire if it happens - actually the Precautionary Principle will be well applied here.

[@jacques-michaeloosthuizen1235]

Funny enough, I am a electrical engineer(early in my career). We had a large multi storey building with a bunch government agencies who wanted EV charging installed in a underground carpark. Happy to say, they edded up canning the idea due to the fire brigade advice resulting the building managers not wanting to accept the risk.

[@GearHeadBoris]

Yes. Safe and effective. It shouldn't be a problem at all.

[@suzanneflowers2230]

Excellent!

[@geoffsclassiccars]

AND on their driveway!

[@matton36]

Those who argue against the fire dept's advice should be held liable for any lives annulled as a result.

[@shaneamundson1192]

Laws regarding fire prevention pertaining to EV's must be strictly enforced, but the desire to abolish free speech stems from the same totalitarian attitudes that are shoving EV's down our throats to begin with.

[@Stepbystep74]

Those who fail to keep their risk assessments up to date.

[@ronaldwarren1267]

Global warming is a myth

[@Anomize23]

Well, THE MOST COMMON FIRE EXTINGUISHERS WILL NOT PUT OUT THE BATTERIES ON FIRE! Just a heads up from a former fighter here. Oh and expect your whole house to be drenched wet after that battery fire takes up lots of water.

[@matton36]

@@Anomize23 My house aint getting wet cause im not wet enough behind the ears to buy an EV.

[@chrissmith2114]

The fact is that the faster you try to charge an EV the higher the risk of fire, and EV makers keep pushing for faster charging ( but faster charging also damages battery )... Madness

[@johnnieboy5381]

Scientific illiteracy abounds.

[@ralpharmsby8040]

That's why so many people believe all the anti EV stuff.

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

​@@ralpharmsby8040Says the EV cultist.

[@matthewmosier8439]

​​@@Eidolon1andOnlyAbout 11 years ago Ebola was in the news. The media made it sound like it was going to spread to the U.S. It seemed inevitable. So when a person in Texas came down with it, I basically told a friend that he was wrong to doubt it all. I later admitted to being wrong and that I had gotten caught up in what was "correct" at the time. I trusted the wrong people. Hopefully a lot of ev fans will do the same, soon. I know what they are feeling like. It's this mindset where you think, "It isn't possible that all those seemingly reputable sources could be wrong about this". The've been tricked into supporting tech that a basic logical approach would cast doubt on. But can't question it because they've been told that to question it makes them a "dumb person who hates progress"

[@esecallum]

its called I SQUARED R heating. check your phone when you charge it. the faster the charging the hotter it gets.. I^2 X R = E

[@cyruslupercal9493]

The sprinkler will do nothing against a raging EV fire.

[@Stepbystep74]

It suppresses the flames cools things down to reduce damage and stops spread to nearby objects

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

​@@Stepbystep74Proof of that?

[@zimissscameras]

@@Stepbystep74yes it does with normal fires , Ev batteries need to be submerged in water for it to die and even after all that that shit can still catch fire later

[@Stepbystep74]

@@zimissscameras I didn’t say it stopped it. Suppression is just making the fire less intense.

[@Stepbystep74]

@@Eidolon1andOnly I mean the video content was about fire departments requesting sprinklers. Not claiming they would put out an ev fire but spraying water into flames reduces the temperature of those flames.

[@hendrickswart4122]

Public safety is much more important than fanboys egos.

[@orwellboy1958]

Sadly not in today's world. Its much more important to be woke as you lay six feet under.

[@tonysheerness2427]

@@orwellboy1958 To day life is cheap.

[@johnnythefox1851]

@@tonysheerness2427 As long as it's not your own!

[@wayneyoung146]

Not what the governments say 😂

[@tonysheerness2427]

@@johnnythefox1851 Yes, the elites make sure it is not them.

[@TheStuffMade]

I wouldn't want to live in a residential building with EVs charging in the basement parking area.

[@ts757arse]

You EV hater. Don't you know all such car parks have had petrol pumps and storage tanks in them for decades? It's perfectly safe... ...wait... Hang on.

[@TheStuffMade]

@@ts757arse You sound a bit unhinged, are you ok? is there someone we should call? 🤣

[@steveedmond9362]

​@@TheStuffMadethe person is actually *agreeing* with you by using *irony*. "Big petrol tanks under buildings' 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 He/she is being funny

[@ts757arse]

@@TheStuffMade unhinged? I'm perfectly hinged. Just from the top like a cat flap and not the sides. In all seriousness, it is a perfectly good argument to use when people say there's no danger in charging EVs in underground parking. You're transferring a large amount of energy very rapidly, just like at a filling station and you would never do that with fuel without all the systematic protections the design of the station includes. Fuel stations don't go up often due to those protections but we accept there is a certainty over time of a large, serious fire and we don't shove them under high occupancy structures without a *lot* of work and a damned good reason.

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

​@@TheStuffMadeThat "wait.... Hang on" at the end was to denote sarcasm.

[@barryfowler954]

Funny how almost every major catastrophic event, movie or otherwise, seems to begin with a politician ignoring a scientist.🤷‍♂🤷‍♂

[@xpusostomos]

These days it occurs when a politician listens to a scientist

[@scaryfakevirus]

@@xpusostomos LOL That is exactly what I was going to say too.

[@unnamedchannel1237]

@@xpusostomosit’s more the politician hears what they want t to hear

[@truebrit3670]

This man isn't a scientist. He's a clown.

[@stevep2430]

@@unnamedchannel1237 Politicians pay the scientist to say what the politicians want to hear.

[@nexus438]

These toxic EV fires are bad enough above ground, but underground will be a hellish nightmare !

[@itikutok6568]

"Saving the climate" appears to be more dangerous than just letting it be.

[@geraldscott4302]

The climate is doing just fine. It does not need saving. The earth has been here for around 4 BILLION years (yes, that's billion with a B) and it's still here. The idea that humans are destroying it in under 100 years is absolutely preposterous.

[@FreeFlyerUk]

How are EVs saving the environment?

[@geraldscott4302]

@@FreeFlyerUk They're not. They are doing considerable damage to it.

[@FreeFlyerUk]

@@geraldscott4302 Exactly

Nothing wrong with the climate.

[@Scotty_AU]

This E.V scam is all unravelling at breakneck speed 😂

[@ericemmons3040]

Let's hope so. . .

[@Scotty_AU]

@@PeterTheGreat-wn2qf no I just laugh at their ridiculous ego and now yours too 🤣

[@Audioremedy0785]

Love how you people say stuff like this and back up with literally zero. It’s not unravelling. They are selling at record levels globally.

[@user-xq6me6pd7q]

Like always it will take an EV fire in an apartment block that kills dozens before there is any sanity in this situation. Remember too that all this stuff is new. What happens when it is 10 years old and has been ragged and shagged and ends up tucked under a ton of rubbish in a corner?

[@daveyjuice7710]

Good point and retrospectively thinking has it happened already and been covered up or a gas main explosion used as an excuse.

[@gazzafloss]

Hope it's not my apartment block, a tenant just got a new Tesla, there are no rules, (yet), to stop EV charging in apartment garages.

[@ian9toes]

“Ragged and shagged” I think the technical term is “ridden hard and put away wet”

[@rolandjung9337]

That's the problem of menkind, many only learn it on the very hard way!

[@Stepbystep74]

@@gazzafloss if you are concerned get the building owner to re-do their fire assessment. Especially if they have no integrated fire alarms/ sprinklers down there.

[@bobpitt1261]

My local shopping centre has a tripple decker car park with the bottom floor having six EV charging points. These are located close to the main doors of the shops. It seems to me that they put the EV chargers in the worst possible place with the least natural ventilation and the worst access for fire fighting vehicles. If there is an EV battery fire potentially hundreds of people will placed in a life threatening situation. Completely irresponsible and just begging for a class action law suit.

[@derekcable]

They probably put them there as it was easier/cheaper than anywhere else..... Money over safety.

[@ralpharmsby8040]

There are far more fires in petrol cars but nobody seems to worry about that.

[@lesliewelch6551]

@@ralpharmsby8040 because petrol cars are easier to put out, do not release toxic fumes, have you seen an EV fire and what happens? No I did not think so.

[@noquarter1437]

@@ralpharmsby8040 theres millions more I C E vehicles corkhead, do the math if your capable

[@marktarrant1232]

@@ralpharmsby8040 You can't get cobalt poisoning from a petrol car fire. Look up what happened to 2 unfortunate Victorian firefighters who got cobalt poisoning from an EV fire and have had to retire as they are permanently disabled.

[@Shoshana-xh6hc]

Are EVs allowed into the underground car park under the Houses of Parliament in London? Asking for a number of friends….

[@suecharnock9369]

Good one!

[@chrissmith2114]

They may be allowed in the 'Guy Fawkes' carpark.

[@daleskidmore1685]

I watched a vid on YT about battery fires and it said they were banned from the underground carpark ( The one Airey Neave was murdered in ) around 2 years ago. I couldn't find the rule on the web site where you could book a parking spot in it though.

[@bondjamesbond9041]

🤣🤣

[@johnnieboy5381]

@@suecharnock9369 Agreed.

[@chrissmith2114]

A sprinkler will just annoy an EV fire.

[@Michael-jx9bh]

It will cool it down and carry at least some of the smoke to the ground. So it will give people time to GTFO.

[@chrissmith2114]

@@Michael-jx9bh it will also wash lots of very toxic substances down the drains and the water supply.... LOL

[@teamcaveman]

@@chrissmith2114petrol car fires, gas station fires have that same toxic chemicals when those fires are put out…coolant, brake fluid, gasoline are wonderful for the environment

[@geoffsclassiccars]

Yep like sneezing into an active volcano!

[@geoffsclassiccars]

​@@teamcavemanthey actually don't! over abundance of plastic on ice vehicles makes them toxic where as burning lithium ion is WAAAAY more toxic

[@benlangley1763]

Fire protection engineer here, we have been told to increase the flow from each sprinkler from 5mm/min to 7.5mm/min to cater for EVs. In reality, this will just keep the fire from spreading until the fire brigade get there. Once the brigade are on site, they will use their standard firefighting hydrants to attack the fire but in reality, will not be able to put it out, the EV would need to be fully submerged for about a week. How much water are we wasting for the in the name of going green?

[@CrowPal]

More to the point, how much water is flushing highly toxic, environmentally damaging chemicals down drains or into watercourses, where it cannot be properly contained and treated - all in the name of going green?

[@melviniq1169]

@@CrowPal Just look into what scientists and governments want to do with lithium, all to dumb you down.

[@michael.randall5034]

No Ev's in car parks, common sense really.

[@jasonheilinger8437]

​@@CrowPalnailed it.

[@rogerpearson9081]

Don't think they will be able to put the toxic smoke back in the battery though no matter how much they try.

[@ianharley1726]

In the UK, such is the lack of govt forward thinking on future energy needs, our electricity generation has little spare capacity. By 2040 if everything was electric, air source heat pumps, EV vehicles and fully electric homes, offices and industry, we would need FOUR times our current supply! Somehow we're going to meet this demand without any carbon fuel. Forty years of appalling mismanagement does not fill me with any confidence for the future for my grandkids. Hellscape.

[@davidvanderklauw]

When do you think the voters will wise up? When the lights go out?

[@gaiustacitus4242]

The U.S. Department of Energy forecasts a need for governments around the world to collectively spend $9.6 TRILLION USD from 2025 through 2050 to address the energy infrastructure and other issues related to decreasing CO2 emissions. This level of spending will result in significant increases in poverty levels and will lead to loss of life (especially among the very young and very old).

[@hudsonbear5038]

@@gaiustacitus4242 Hate to tell you but that figure is BS... it has been estimated that too bring the UKs power grid up to the required requirements for the future even without EV's it will cost 3.2 Trillion and thats just the UK... so 9.6 trillion is very low..

[@charlestoast4051]

We are ruled by monsters.

[@michael.randall5034]

Hi fellow, you are spot on. Already worked this out, Wind farms are like going back to sailing ships and solar panels while helpful are least useful in winter and are expensive. You need nuclear, hydro and tidal and gas the cleanest of fossil fuels. We will be heading for power cuts and sky high electricity prices to fuel inflation.

[@robertthomson1587]

Good to see the Fire Brigades swimming against the stream. Let's hope their voices are heard.

[@avlisk]

I expect, as usual, someone will get to the head of their organizations with money or threats, mandates will then come down from the top management making the employees shut up or lose their jobs and pensions, a whistleblower or two will come forward to be mocked, ignored, ridiculed, prosecuted, or found dead "by his own hand". We see this sort of thing over and over again.

[@robertthomson1587]

@@avlisk Yes, sadly that's all too true.

[@kirkjohnson6638]

Interestingly, many of the EV fans are big proponents of solar and wind power, but oppose nuclear power because failures at nuclear plants, though extremely rare, have huge impacts. These same people are blind to applying that logic to EV fires.

[@ralpharmsby8040]

Pro nuclear people are blind to the fact that no long term storage solution for radio active waste has been found. It stays radioactive for 100s of years. EV fires are less likely than ICE car fires BTW.

[@HS_Rick]

@@ralpharmsby8040 uhhh yeah there is though, Finland has long term storage solution for nuclear waste!

[@scottw5315]

In seventy five years all they have to point to are Chernobyl and Fukushima. Check out some videos of wildlife thriving in those hot spots. The ten thousand year half life of radioactivity and the damning effects of it were yesterday's climate change for fear mongers.

[@Robert-cr8bq]

I don't agree with all experts (climate change, Covid 19, to say only 2). However, in this case, Fire Prevention Experts know the dangers and woe betide any body or organisation that ignores them. Will await with bated breath for the insurance risk assessments.

[@secondchance6603]

Everybody's house insurance will go up through the roof faster than an EV fire to pay for this bs.

[@NeverGonaHappen]

If there's one thing you can guarantee, it's insurance companies doing the risk assessment and adjusting insurance policies accordingly. Unfortunately this affects ALL insurance not only EV insurance. Notice how your insurance has been creeping up over the last few years? Mine has been an extra 1.5% year on year OVER the average 2.7% running average over 10 years.

[@Robert-cr8bq]

@NeverGonaHappen Is that all? My car and house insurances both went up over 50% this year, and with a full no clames, limited milage, on the car. This is the UK. The most screwed country in the world!🤣😅 P.s. I'm an OAP.

[@johnnieboy5381]

⁠@@Robert-cr8bq You’re spot on there, Robert. I use comparison sites for insurance quotes but, sometimes, a better deal is available if you contact the insurance company direct. Politicians are imbued with socialist principals-eventually, they run out of other people’s money to spend.

[@derekcable]

​@@Robert-cr8bqsome friends with high performance cars have found their insurances have tripled,all with maximum no claims and clean licences.

[@RoverIAC]

If you can't trust the experts you sure can trust the insurance agents (when it come to setting premiums.... not claims)

[@vincecarlo]

EV 💥💥💥 is Real EV IS NOT For Everyone

[@zippy5131]

From a ex-armourers point of view, you could class these as explosives 1.3. Which is explosives that have a fire hazard and either a minor blast, projection hazard or both. As fireworks are classed as 1.4, explosion is confined mainly to the package and no projection of fragments of size ejected. Believe me it's a minefield (Pun intended) when dealing with bang.

[@Michael-jx9bh]

Veery interesting! So applying existing hazardous material rules to EVs class them as rather high risk. Does that take into account the amount of material? EV batteries are big, heavy so contains rather a lot of active chemicals after all.

[@elonever.2.071]

@@Michael-jx9bh And how do you cut the electrical power to the flame engulfed EV while charging it? 40A is a lot of external juice to keep the chemical reaction in an EV fire while trying to keep the heat down from a sprinkler system.

[@zippy5131]

@@Michael-jx9bh Now that is a calculation and a half.

[@maddoglep2127]

EV's are the gift that keeps coming for this channel. A UK report has just found that in built up areas an EV is 3x more likely to hit a pedestrian. They accelerate fast but not as good at stopping and of course are very quiet. Look forward to your video on this report.

[@markadler8968]

What is the difference? I guess you are the type of person who would get out after stiking a pedestrian and blame them for not hearing your car.

[@UpsidedownC]

​​@@markadler8968 i wad hit on my bike as a kid by someone like this. I was riding on the road with traffic car Makes a right into my bike gets out screaming at me. Thankfully a cop seen it and said you can either get a careless or replace his bike as I wasn't hurt. Lady took me to the closest bike store and bought me a new 1000 dollar bike 😂

[@maddoglep2127]

@@PeterTheGreat-wn2qf It is a report published today. Read it. Have a go at them if you do not agree with it. Are you just a bit slow? Did you attend a MLD school? Did you not see the ''report out today?''

[@sunnybnk]

@@PeterTheGreat-wn2qf You're a bit quick off the mark there. Obviously an evangelist!! The guy was not "passing on his wisdom". He was merely commenting on a UK report he had seen. I suggest you take your anger to the author of the report. Meantime, try reading the original comment.

[@TheHorsebox2]

Sprinklers. I think you'd need more than sprinklers.

[@stevelewis8394]

The thought of what could happen if they put EV charging points in underground car parks of high rise apartment buildings is terrifying.

[@pookatim]

Regardless of one's thinking about the viability of EVs, it is incredibly reckless that fire safety standards have not been adopted industry wide. There is no standard method to disconnect the high voltage battery in an emergency. There is no standard method for accessing the battery with fire fighting agents. There is no standard for opening locked doors on EVs in an emergency situation. It isn't even safe to us conventional power tools to cut through the bodies of EVs without putting the emergency responders at great risk. While there is no way to make an EV "safe" things could move much closer to making them safer simply by standardization. Heck, they don't even have standard charging connectors!

[@CrowPal]

An ego the size of Elon Musk don't need no stinkin' standards.

[@ladybug591]

@@CrowPal .....The PEOPLE themselves demanded this and ASAP - they didn't want to be told that batteries cannot run a vehicle properly. (I knew.) The "global warmists", the public, DEMANDED these crazy pointless inventions, useless windmills, toxic masses of solar "farms" now polluting farmland water, the tragedy goes on and on, yet around 40% of ill-educated people still believe in the global warming scam. They still believe they need to "save the planet" even if it kills ALL of us. So, because of public demand EVs were made by Elon Musk and also by many others in different countries - ordered to by government mandate. So who is to blame? EVERYBODY is to blame. Who will pay for the damage - NOBODY. People took government handouts and subsidies to get these dangerous pointless pieces of human folly made and sold. And here we are.... At least the truth is now out, and we can see all the problems - AFTER they were made. There is no way these EVs can be made safely or used safely or be charged safely or even be dismantled and destroyed safely. We all allowed this. There was no science exercised at all.

[@ejh1100]

Safest of all...don't be stupid enough to get one !

[@jono.pom-downunder]

We're all at the mercy of the character that puts the battery together, be it human or robot, is there an EV equivalent to the 70s "Friday afternoon car" "yeah that'll do"

[@jamsbong]

Decades ago, some cargo airplanes that carried large amounts of lithium batteries caught fire and burned down so quickly. This lead to the banning of lithium batteries in cargo planes.

[@roycemontgomery978]

No sprinkler system will have any effect on an EV fire.

[@reachandler3655]

While sprinklers won't effect the EV that's on fire, it will help prevent that fire from spreading to surrounding areas and vehicles, allowing people to exit the structure.

[@fredvandevelde4576]

Ross De Rango should be sued for all damages caused by Electric Fires in apartment buildings and be criminally responsible for any injuries or deaths incurred by his statement.

[@pmkeith]

On a slightly different note - We recently had a fire in a house near to us where a clothes dryer inside a garage had ignited and burned out the whole roof. It was only because of a prompt response from the local fire service that the house itself didnt also go up in flames. Having seen this, there is no way in the world that I would allow a lithium ion battery of over .5kWh to be charged up anywhere inside my property. Apart from the obvious potential for danger to life, it is also possible that my insurance will be voided. Neither risk I am willing to contemplate. (I also dont have an air clothes dryer - but if I did, I wokld know to clean the lint trap out regularly).

[@CNile-se9xw]

@pmkeith .. The risk of a clothes dryer fire increases dramatically if the filters aren't cleaned regularly. The user manual will state this, yet customers miss it or ignore it. Your neighbour could be in deep shit when the insurance company does an assessment.

[@derekcable]

In London there were 135 house fires involving electric bike ... London fire brigade figures.

[@rogerpearson9081]

If you unplug the dryer and spray an ordinary garden hose on it you would probably have a good chance of putting it out. There is a video of a Tesla model x or y still burning underwater thanks to the oxygen containing electrolyte.

[@derekcable]

@@rogerpearson9081 There's actually 2 both were reversed into the sea then went up like Roman candles due to the reaction of the salt water and the lithium batteries.

[@CNile-se9xw]

@@rogerpearson9081@rogerpearson9081 Most people leave the dryers to do their work unsupervised & even if they're home, it would most likely be too late to douse it with water.

[@alanakafang6143]

Just did a conference with Australasian Fleet Education & Leadership Summit and the government departments pushing full speed ahead with changing their fleets to EV is full on ..

[@eifionhowells]

Oh dear the Fire Department going against The Narrative? That's someone's promotion put in jeopardy by speaking the truth.

[@wsmith3849]

Insurance companies will have EVs banned from parking anywhere near a structure. I don’t think a sprinkler system would do anything to stop the fire or the spread after watching a fire department trying to put one out.

[@maifantasia3650]

When EVangelists go into "denial mode," I can't help but think of the bridge lyrics in the brillant song, "Errol" (1981), performed by the great band Australian Crawl. "Don't tell me it's true, I don't wanna hear about it. "Don't tell me it's true, I don't wanna hear about it. "Don't tell me it's true, I don't wanna hear about it. "Don't tell me it's true, I don't wanna hear about it!"

[@Audioremedy0785]

The irony is that the denials are mostly from the IcE enthusiasts. Who try so hard to force a ‘fire risk’ narrative even though their cars are more likely to go on fire. It’s wild.

[@johnlansing2902]

Suggestion …… if paper pushers want to over ride the opinions of fire professionals the solution is simple , have the office bound experts sign a document declaring themselves responsible for any and all deaths and damages . Money where their mouth is ?

[@rogerpearson9081]

They would weasel out of that without sweating.

[@troyparfitt8451]

Love the Thumbnail " Nothing to see here'

[@reginald7214]

Awesome stuff 😂😆

[@38skippers]

WEF is calling the shots

[@jasonz7788]

Bravo Sir

[@jaromor8808]

The government's do not expect us all to drive EVs. No personal mobility for the subjects.

[@suecharnock9369]

No, they want us to either pay through the nose for ICE, suffer an ev (sev) or just walk.

[@ladybug591]

Bicycles for us higher end serfs and our cities and towns are going to be cordoned off into 15-minute sections of suburbs for the others - the walkers. Just can't wait. The government run buses are going to be a delight to get around in too, perhaps Papa government will take us to the beach or a picnic spot once a year in buses....we can but hope....lol.

[@henrymancini3750]

Wait till building insurance policies skyrocket in price because of EV's. Maybe that's when people will realise how much of an impact EV's have on their life even if they don't own one.

[@1hjehje]

The "armchair experts" who say that this type of fire isn't a problem should be required to participate in a hands-on field trip with a fire fighting crew before they are allowed to write and publish their articles. The firefighters can provide these so-called experts with all of the equipment and support needed while they fight a little car fire and show the firefighters how its done; assuming that they don't run away crying of course :-).

[@fzr400rr100]

It's very simple to cure, ask Mr De Rango for an assurance that if the minimum measures he is recommending are to be use as the standard that he his also willing to be prosecuted in the courts for all the damage, injury and deaths that could reasonably have been prevented by an increased level of protection and preparation. Bet he changes his tune.

[@troygoggans5495]

I do not know about Australia but here in the US is something I have witnessed. At the EV changing station 3 miles from my home I see EV drivers sitting in their EVs while it is charging without a thought as to the electrical wattage flowing into their cars. These stations are located at a gas station with 24 gas pumps out front and fifty feet from the underground gasoline storage tanks with refueling trucks parked over the top of the storage tanks. I do not care what the so called experts say this is a time bomb waiting to ignite.

[@NiceLoki]

Luton Car Park - enough said!

[@ralpharmsby8040]

This is from the Bedford Fire and Rescue service not some anti EV bloke... A fire investigation into the blaze that broke out in a multi-storey car park at London Luton Airport was accidental, the fire service can confirm. At its height, more than 100 firefighters tackled the fire, which started in the evening of 10 October 2023 and saw aircraft grounded until the following day. Following the fire, a multi-agency investigation took place between Bedfordshire Police and Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, which finished this week. As a result of the investigation, all evidence points to the most probable cause being an electrical fault or component failure, which started in the engine bay of the vehicle whilst it was in motion. The developing fire spread to other components, and whilst the owner of the vehicle attempted to fight the fire, the vehicle became overrun with flames and spread to other parked vehicles. The vehicle involved was diesel-powered - it was not a mild hybrid, plug-in hybrid or electric vehicle.

[@NiceLoki]

@@ralpharmsby8040 yep, and reports never lie or are never doctored to say what people want them to say.

[@chrissmith2114]

@@ralpharmsby8040 If what you claim is true, the ferocity of the fire, which does not happen with ICE was undoubtedly cause by adjacent EV in the carpark, there were numerous fire extinguishers that had been used, and a normal extinguisher is all that is needed to put out an ICE fire, especially a diesel ICE because diesel does not burn well in open air. No previous ICE only fire has ever burned down a concrete and steel carpark. Just like an ICE fire has never trashed a car carrying ship before, or even really damaged one, but the presence of EV on board destroyed several ships in last few years, they were twisted wrecks due to intense heat of battery fires.

[@VK4VO]

@@ralpharmsby8040 There is a photo of the car in question, it's not a diesel powered vehicle.

[@kevinsmith7287]

I have to say I love watching your videos of this clown show. It's just unbelievable that people will pay so much money to be a part of it. How do you see this ending

[@user-bm6xz6pq5z]

Hello from the US

[@matthewharding-ew1ts]

I'm just waiting to hear about an EV catching fire in the channel tunnel or on a ferry. That would be catastrophic

[@unnamedchannel1237]

It won’t happen EVs don’t catch firer they are safe as

[@marklittle3551]

If the general public were aware of the precautions and inspections undertaken by Power workers in maintaining HV infrastructure they may change their attitude.

[@elonever.2.071]

I agree 100%. That is where safety measures and regulations should be taken from.

[@VincentNajger1]

Just wait till the entire underground carpark under your apartment block is chocka block full of crappy old EVs....its gonna be awesome fun.

[@c.s2001]

What you snd I want when it happens ( and it will) is for people to be accountable and sent to gaol. Can you see that happening? No me neither.

[@rogerpearson9081]

Some nice cheep [sic] Chinese EVs that don't even get off the showroom floor sometimes

[@secondchance6603]

EV fires. Watch Peter Cook, Susan Boyle, Steven Fry and see how Robert Burns.

[@pmkeith]

Obviously, you are a member of the "erudite irony club".

[@vanzell1912]

😂😂

[@0e32]

@@pmkeith Hahaha! Tesla has just been sued by the state for heavily polluting the environment in California on at least 119 occasions since the year 2021 without taking any action...they have also had repeated fires in their paint shop that have poisoned the environment for their neighbors and nearby residents. .. :-) Environmental cars 🙂

[@daleskidmore1685]

Genius!

[@johnnieboy5381]

Good one.😁

[@richardjohnson8009]

I thought the two ships being sunk or the massive fires and the random explosion would have caused some concern, interesting you cant own a molotov or a machine gun, but you can own a dirty bomb ev.

[@michael.randall5034]

Plus the buses in London and the re-cylcing plants and oh yes the battery storage systems which are catching fire.

[@pmkeith]

What's the problem? Don't we have petrol filling stations in every underground car park? Yes, I know, it is too dangerous.

[@melissasmess2773]

EV's go up in flames when you charge them sometimes.

[@derekcable]

It's a shame some people don't understand how a normal fire works :- 1 You need a combustible material. 2 You need an ignition source. 3 You need oxygen. Now without all 3 no fire will happen. This is not the case with an EV fire as the lithium batteries produce their own oxygen during thermal run away which can happen when there is a short between one or more of the cells or by overheating during changing. As for petrol stations being underground all of them have a water fire suppression system which works on fuel/vehicle fires.

[@STho205]

In several nations there WERE fueling stations in the car parks and underground garages in big cities in the 20s and 30s. There were fires and that practice was regulated further and further through the decades. I don't know if any still exist.... However at one time the idea of storing hundreds of gallons, thousands of litres, along with a hundred filled automobiles, machinery or trucks seemed like an acceptable risk.

[@derekcable]

@@STho205 Yes but they won't spontaneously combust and have never done so without other factors in play unlike an EV.

[@STho205]

@@derekcable true, but randon garage workers and patrons smoking cigarettes carelessly and tossing on the floors did achieve similar results.

[@johngodden5196]

Having spent 25 years in the fire protection and fire detection industry and having considerable interface with NSW Fire and Rescue (as it is now known) I have to agree with them whole heartedly. As far as reading any report put out by ARAP I would suggest that another indepent opinion be sort out. In recent days there has been a lot of commentary on the current state of the electricity system in Australia. As we have dwindling supplies of electricity and "water batteries" quite likely will never to eventuate, where is all this power going to come from to charge these idealogical loads of rubbish that have no useful purpose? Solar does not work at night, wind is usually not blowing at night and the "water battery" is being replenished at night (at enormous cost and power consumption) and the majority of EVs are going to be charged at night so again where is all this power coming from? Perhaps we can all forgo our cooking, heating, cooling and lighting so that virtue seeking idealogs can charge their very expensive toys to get to the cafe for their soy latte's as that is about as far as EVs can go on a charge!!

[@emilcost8613]

There is no way in H E double hockey sticks that a sprinkler system is going to contain an EV battery ignition. The only way that things are going to change is for something really bad happening, that we all hope will not happen. The idiots are running the show, and they will continue on with this insanity until a catastrophic event, and even then they will cover it up.

[@jackking5567]

It's amazing how much content you can bring to this channel. It shows there are clear problems with the EV idea.

[@kamilZ2]

The average EV is getting older, therefore the fire risk is increasing. The faster charging, the lower charge efficiency and more heat produced.

[@garyware1261]

MGUY -SUBSCRIBER ALERT!! - Tell your subscribers to check to make sure they are still subscribed. KZbin has unsubscribed you twice in the last week. I've been a subscriber and daily viewer of your show ever since I stumbled onto you a couple of months ago. You're doing all of us a great service...keep it up! We have few voices such as yours in America.

[@mchume65]

If I paid the exuberant price difference of an EV over an ICE, I might be reluctant to admit my mistake. Especially given all the other reasons.

[@litestuffllc7249]

The risk of an EV fire is pretty high. The number that exist so far is what is low; it is the only reason you don't see EV fires every day in Oz like you do in China. Telsa is the only EV maker that has models with a cooling system inside the battery packs. Chinese brands depend on air cooling. However and EV can catch fire just sitting doing nothing. Example the Falicty Ace car go ship - a new Porsche EV caught fire; spreading quickly to other EVs and then sinking the ship. EVs can self ignite due to dendrites that can grow withing the battery cells causing a short - even when they are new and doing nothing. EV chain fires are massive risks not worth taking.

[@iancarrington1967]

Just abandon the dam things, far more trouble than they are worth.

[@bikersoncall]

I'm ordering mine today, 4th of July is just around the corner!!

[@anderajohn133]

Your videos have become like an addiction! I was devastated when there was no new video on Sunday! The sarcasm, head movements and facial expressions are comedy gold!

[@biggils8894]

I can’t wait for the back peddling 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Also blind ppl shouldn’t have to trip over lime bicycles, it’s hard enough for ppl who have good vision not to trip over this communal communist future dystopian shared society. Tripping over obstacles on a walkway is all for your safety

[@derekcable]

Lime Cycles 🤬

[@alastairgair7504]

I say leave the EV'S in the sales yard! And forget about them !! A

[@unnamedchannel1237]

I say leave them in the ground and don’t dig up the resources required to build them

[@garypowell1540]

A factor in this that we don't pay enough attention to. I had a terrible time yesterday traveling to a meeting in Bedfordshire from South London in the rain. The traffic congestion was so awful that I got about halfway, gave up, and returned home. I wasted a total of 6 hours getting nowhere. I remarked to myself that EVs could not come quick enough as this would radically reduce the number of cars on the road, thus enabling me to get to my destination in a fraction of the time. I don't care how much my business meetings cost my company to attend as this is tax-deductible, but I do care about my blood pressure. EVs are a great way of keeping the Great Unwashed off the road and either on public transport or at home restricted to their 15-minute glorified prison cells watching BBC propaganda. Meanwhile, business people, corporate and public sector employees get to do what they please when and where they are pleased to do it. If I start to think this way after 6 hours of wasted time then it is hardly surprising that so many relatively wealthy people love the idea of EVs and the prohibitively expensive road pricing that will inevitably go with them. Therefore EV ownership and adoption is not a symptom of collectivist care for our fellow man, but a purely selfish act motivated by perceived self-interest. Neatly allied with a lethal combination of virtue-signaling materialism and traditional oneupmanship. Who cares if a few families get cremated alive every hour? Who cares if most of the plebs are stranded within walking distance of their own hovels for the entirety of their miserable lives? Who cares about the inevitable environmental degradation caused by making countless millions of cars disposable products? Who cares about the mass unemployment caused within our entire motoring industry. Who cares about food becoming far more expensive, to the point of most of the Plebs surviving on powered cockroaches? Who cares about these things as long as people like me and our entire corporate and political class can arrive at our meetings on time? My generation had great fun, to say the least. Now it is time for us to make everybody else's life a total misery, and the best way to do this is to convince younger generations that we are doing them a great favour. We may have been spoiled shitless and stoned most of the time back in the 70s, but we turned out not to be so stupid after all. One of the greatest ironies of life is this. Call it Darwinist survival of the smartest or fittest, God's natural law in operation, or just, how it is and has always been, as what we call it is of little consequence. Young people seem programmed to commit suicide or are extremely easy to persuade to do so. We have countless examples of this, young male soldiers being the most obvious, but young females are also so inclined. This is ironic as it is clearly the young that have the most to lose by destroying their own lives so easily and early. Perhaps nature's way of keeping the species both alive and adaptable? Thus preventing real IQ levels from dropping at an exponential and existential rate. Believing what you are told to believe, or doing as you are told to do, traditionally gets you dead at a tragically early age. The good news is that dead people tend not to breed, while stupid people are incapable of working out how to do so without starving to death or being regularly culled. Therefore sod humanity. I will buy an EV at some time in the future and by that time I will be able to get to my meetings without going half insane.

[@my3dviews]

At the end of the video, I got an ad for a plug in hybrid. 😂

[@unnamedchannel1237]

Did you click it ?

[@my3dviews]

@@unnamedchannel1237 Nope. I have a relatively new car (two years old), so not looking for a new one. Wouldn't buy anything that runs on a battery anyway.

[@Audioremedy0785]

@@my3dviewsspoiler: your ice car relies on a battery.

[@my3dviews]

@@Audioremedy0785 Spoiler. It doesn't "run" on a battery.

[@Audioremedy0785]

@@my3dviews would it run without one?

[@888Longball]

Thanks for the link. I'm going to send this to our council and fire services.

[@cmwHisArtist]

The risk of fire goes up proportionally according to how many evs and chargers there are .

[@steveburkgess7493]

Love this channel! You're making a difference! Our county in upstate NY, Onondaga, just voted down electric school busses in the budget. Yeah! People are waking up.

[@billrea66]

Trust the ones that have to put their lives on the line to extinguish an EV fire !

[@mhelmreich1]

I guess it is somewhat similar to having fuel bowsers in underground parking. An equally bad idea. I think the fire prevention experts would be probably the most balanced participants in all of this.

[@marklittle3551]

HV cables subjected to daily use and abuse. What can go wrong?

[@unnamedchannel1237]

Wrap them in a wet towel it really does help

[@ReadTheShrill]

Introducing the all new 2025 Volvo Special Hazard!

[@exvictorian3605]

Thank you

[@kezzatries]

Yup, tell it like it is.

[@leeinwis]

EVs are weapons of the globalists .

[@djuro14]

No one saw it coming.

[@iandaniel1601]

Completely shocked. 😐

[@woofwoof9647]

👀 🙈 🙈 🙊 👁️

[@djuro14]

@@iandaniel1601 Bewildered!

[@antonbrum5492]

Our son was in the Austin hospital last year, the underground car park is partially under parts of the hospital. Can you imagine an EV fire in this car park, with toxic fumes billowing into the hospital? The lift wells are central to the car park. Ban all EVs from these facilities as a matter of safety.

[@Galerak1]

In the UK (as of 20th May 2024) the UK fuel duty is 52.2p per litre on petrol and 50.65p per litre for diesel, and then there's a further 20% VAT added to the pump price. If they succeed in forcing everybody into EVs where is that revenue stream going to come from? They'll start adding 'fuel duty' to electricity. That will be easy 'at the pump' as it were, adding the fuel duty to public charging stations but what about the people fortunate enough to be able to 'fuel' at home? I can't see ANY government allowing that to happen un-taxed, and as a home charger is supplied through the main fuse box (hence meter) they will be claiming that 'fuel duty' on every piece of electrical equipment you have in your homes. So if you use lighting? Fuel duty! Electric fires or stoves? Fuel duty! Charge your phone? Fuel duty!, Use your computer? Fuel duty! Watch TV? Fuel duty! Basically, use ANY electricity in your own home and you will be charged fuel duty on it. Is it any wonder why these governments are pushing for total EV transportation against all forms of common sense?

[@ralpharmsby8040]

Any evidence for this?

[@VK4VO]

@@ralpharmsby8040 Yep, commie bastards are running the show

[@raytrevor1]

I think all new cars will have a mileage charge based on GPS, then they can vary it with congestion, time of day etc. You will have to insert your credit card in a slot or you are going nowhere!

[@Galerak1]

@@ralpharmsby8040 Evidence for what? Fuel duty figures? You can google them yourself as links can't be posted in comments sections. As for the rest, it's speculation, no evidence because it hasn't happened yet... But how do YOU think they'll recoup all that lost revenue from fuel tax if all transportation goes electric?

[@Galerak1]

@@raytrevor1 That's a possibility too, but looking at the greedy b*stards in government nowadays I still think my scenario would be their preferred option.

[@TimK2646]

As everyone is aware, the infamous Luton Airport Carpark fire blaze was caused by a HYBRID, not pure EV LOL. There is an NHS hospital which banned EV explicitly from its car parks.

[@andyman8630]

and to think,, seaohtwo has absolutely nothing to do with climb-mate

[@ianking-jv4hg]

Eggspurt ? Is that a loose arse chicken?

[@johnnieboy5381]

Ha ha.😁

[@richardho5955]

Wooden houses in Queensland, with wooden garages…what could go wrong? 🙄😡🇦🇺

[@DavidMartin-ym2te]

The point here is that if construction goes ahead and ignores fire service advice, then the insurers will refuse to cover the risks as laid out by the fire service. It is insurance that will put an end to this madness, because they are major international companies run by shareholders with an eye to the bottom line. This is only my opinion of course, albeit based upon a 40 year career in insurance.

[@rogerpearson9081]

The insurance premiums are already having an effect on EV ownership. One of the reasons I would not get one at the moment on top of the uncontrollable fireworks potential even though a home charged one would suit me down to the ground for 90% of my driving.

[@wayneyoung146]

Also people who work in power line work Say that the power lines are not up to standard for all the changes that are happening for the future

[@bobmcdoggish9659]

I can't wait to hear what Insurance companies are saying about EVs.

[@rrg6625]

Great channel. Well done. 😊

[@4k8t]

So, in the end, safety is in fact relative. Fire fighting people have their perspective and EV proponents have their perspective. There are trade offs associated with both perspectives. The question is which arrangements of trade offs are we willing to accept.

[@RobertKohut]

Just the fact that the general public is allowed to connect and disconnect and use cables that carry upwards of 150,000 watts is mind boggling! I can't think of a single thing that could go wrong.... LOL

[@BagoGarde]

I'm a fireman, the reason i came to your channel at first was due to my encounter with an EV forklift fire. The only solution was to get another forklift to get the battery out and bury it, as no amount of water would extinguish it and it would just keep boiling the water away.

[@Greatdane-qf8kd]

And how many of these EV fires have you seen in your job?

[@RodneyW]

EV fires are pretty rare - at least in new, well-maintained vehicles. As pointed by another commenter, nobody really knows what will happen when you have a larger number of damaged third-hand EV's driven as first cars after getting a licence.... However, *when* EV's burn, they are 2 - 2.5 x hotter than ICEV fires, and have the potential to reignite for 24-48 hours after they are first extinguished. In most risk management processes, a low probability (unlikely) adverse event with catastrophic consequences is classified as an extreme risk - which thus requires careful planning to mitigate or manage.

[@ladybug591]

Not so rare, and we have reports of EVs catching fire aboard transport ships on the way to be sold, brand new, off the factory floor, they are dangerous and UNNECESSARY, and we DO KNOW what will happen as the car and batteries decay and are out in the weather. We don't need such dangerous, badly built EVs in our cities and towns. There is reason for this mess because there is NO catastrophic end coming to the world just because we drive normal cars and use the fuels available today. We have politicians willing to cash in on bringing shit-built items from the immoral and unethical CCP, EVs are so badly built in China that they are falling to pieces within weeks. Unscrupulous socialist and green governments, bent on forcing the normal market system, will try to get them into our country. We will then be left with these pieces of rotting and dangerous trash littered all over the place. It will turn our country into a mine field, and no one responsible will pay the price, a few will make big money.

[@jandejong2430]

Another item to check before renting an appartment...

[@johnnieboy5381]

Good point.

[@davidac76]

All I can say after watching this channel for a while now, is that I don't want your EV parked anywhere near my property, or anywhere near my ICE vehicle in a carpark or on the street.

[@mathewhills8807]

Its gunna be more than interesting when a carpark goes up and people are killed by the toxic fumes. Will the Govt double down or back down?

[@rogerpearson9081]

Lots of weasel out options for slippery pollies!

[@rm5902]

Great as usual Keep it up

[@lakak4056]

Safe & Effective! all over again.

[@mrQWERTxyz]

Trust the expert is an appeal to authority fallacy that is used by EV fans as well. They also consider themselves as "expert". I am not saying argument is wrong. Just the way how it is highlighted.

[@markthomas207]

Some time back I did an online search for any state laws enacted, or pending, that would regulate or ban EV charging in multi-family buildings in the state of California. All that I found were new requirements for the builders of apartment complexes to install public charging stations somewhere within the parking area of the complex. It would seem this state's government is so enamored with the idea of all electric transportation that it has never occurred to them that charging within a closed space, not to mention a space that shares a wall with another residence, a family with children perhaps, could ever be dangerous.

[@ajtony1313]

Great videos. Google, Gravity Chargers in New York City, to see the ultimate in parking garage 500 kW charging systems. I thought that New York did not allow fireworks factories.

[@user-xz9lx8qe6t]

Was in the industrial battery business for a long time. People have died from one battery going off can't imagine a whole plant