Porsche are RECALLING my ELECTRIC CAR due to the BATTERY being a FIRE RISK! I may nEVer get it BACK!

[@send2mc]

I just bought a 1987 Alfa with their gorgeous 2.5 litre V6 just so I can listen to that gorgeous engine. ❤️

[@lawrencemonaghan926]

The sound will mask the noise of the tin worms😅😅😅

[@mickcoles]

I have a 525 I SE from 1989 - Straight 6 and sounds glorious from 4000 RPM - best fun with your clothes on 🤣

[@marklittle3551]

@@send2mc Busso v6 with the chrome manifolds

[@nickgood8166]

@@send2mc what is the Alpha trope ..'Want shit and drama in your life, get married or buy an Alpha!'

[@AS-jm9uk]

Drilling is killing ...... but digging, child labour and toxic lagoons are great. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@maxgomila8209]

If the entire battery pack has to be replaced after only a few years of use then that must be bad for the environment.

[@BramBiesiekierski]

@@maxgomila8209 Probably. But it's gotta be better for the environment than the emissions from when the entire thing burns, releasing toxic gas, and then catching anything adjacent on fire aswell

[@coolspace2136]

The big push to get everyone to buy these things will end here in the US on January 20th. If we want an electric car, we can buy one. If we want a gasoline powered car, we can buy one. The government won't be telling us what to do anymore.

[@mbp1505]

@@coolspace2136 I think you’ve forgot Elon Musk is on board.

[@peterjeffries75]

I'll stick with my 30 year old Subaru Impreza Turbo WRX Wagon, Lee. What a joke these EVs are. Even a bigger joke is the government pushing them.

[@curtisducati]

Keep your WRX Wagon , nice to drive and own , friends got one and he has had his 20 years , I did the same thing with my Mercedes SLK 2001 , still got it as she never plays up and 105k on dash now ...EV are awful things with the battery replacement prices

[@Steve_Wardley_G6JEF]

Starmer, in his bid to maintain Britain as the World leader in battling climate change has said at the COP conference that he won't be telling us how to live our lives tackling climate issues. Well no, he won't have to do, he'll just legislate his way through it by making it all the more difficult and expensive to own an ICE vehicle.

[@robblack7560]

I fell off my chair when he said that.

[@bentullett6068]

@@robblack7560 I am sure I saw a flying pig at the same time.

[@ianfaulkner4398]

@Steve_Wardley_G6JEF if he wants to have net zero switch off half of the lights in cities at night . It's getting like a comunist country being told what to do. It's not north Korea.

[@nednedtom]

see them poor people that died when their tesla lock its doors and burst into flames.

[@mickhardstaff6605]

In 2027 every new house must have a heat pump and no gas boiler . Electric cars everywhere , yet they think a windmill will supply the infrastructure demands 😂

[@johnarnell4241]

The UK has a current capacity to fit 45 heat pumps per day. The govt are committed to 800 new builds per day. Rayner is in charge, Abbott did the maths.

[@jamesgoggle3421]

Yes pure madness get rid of Milliband

[@Taylor40667]

It was 2024 it has been pushed back to 2027 Any bets it will be pushed back again 😂

[@knownpleasures]

Not just one windmill though. Thousands of them all over the country.

[@garethneill6888]

That's why they want farmers gone so that they can seize their land and build Solar grids on flat land and wind turbines on hills. So they can fulfil their agenda

[@DJPMackin]

Wouldn't take an electric car as a gift (if I wasn't allowed to sell it). Think I'll stick with my twin turbo v8 diesel VW. Thanks.

[@hughsavage2136]

I must say, your Porsche is a beautiful car. Shame it didn't include an ICE range extender. 😊

[@SuperLittleTyke]

21:19 During my 7-year apprenticeship as a motor mechanic in the 1960s we replaced whole engines in half a day. Austins, Morris Minors, Fords. It was a quick fix for a clapped out engine. Affordable, too. The replacement engines were factory refurbished and like new.

[@davidhalliday748]

that’s why our insurance is through the roof due to recalls of ev’s which are not economically feasible to repair so they write them off.

[@WeAreAllDoomed-n5i]

Here we go! Fast forward practice! Waffle skip!

[@TheMacMaster]

We're all doomed!!!!

[@JamesPink-j2k]

Battery failure (or more likely the failure of one tiny resistor, diode, capacitor) on any of the 60+ PCBs that control charg/discharge of the cell packs) will write every EV off as soon as the warranty expires. My Model S Tesla had warranty HV battery replacements at 83k, 104k and 112k. Since a new battery would cost me £17,500 (same as the car value) after the warranty ran out, I had to sell it. Financially irrepairable. Back to the Aston!

[@golders99]

EV cars are fecking madness, I tell you.

[@chrisp7839]

@@golders99 I’m sure you don’t intend to, but you come over as rather arrogant with statements like that. Might I suggest that using a vehicle that sprays toxic fumes out of the exhaust at push chair height, might also be described as “fecking madness” - practising oncologists are pointing to car fumes as one of the leading causes of lung cancer in people that have never smoked.

[@johnnyhock]

I have a 2017 Suzuki Vitara S all grip (petrol 1.4L booster jet manual 4wD ) I bought it new almost exactly 7 years ago from my local Suzuki Dealership. It has never broken down It has never been safety recalled. It has never had anything stop working. It has had an annual service costing around £200 It has passed every MOT without so much as an advisory. I have never even had to replace a light bulb. The car has never missed a beat, never given me any problem whatsoever. The car is bulletproof ! I paid £23k brand new - on the road back in 2017 and today it was valued at £10,500 as a trade in …. It takes about 3 mins to fully fill the empty tank, costs around £70, and will carry me around 450 miles ! Why on earth would I go EV. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@rbnhd1144]

Ahh you've got to love Suzuki's I do, common sense cars for common sense people. Id hang on to it if its not too high on miles.

[@johnthomas7038]

It is time that the misselling lawyers put together a case for the sale of EV's. If an owner is in such potential negative equity with their finance that has to be far more serious than a customer not being told how much commission in be paid (as per the current scandal).

[@cheakyblinder]

The insanity in the board rooms of these once great car makers is mind boggling.

[@joeblogs5163]

Leave the battery out, and put pedals in it, along with no floor, then you can be like Freddie Flinstone 😂😂😂😂😂

[@the_none_believer]

Kier Starmer, and Edd Milliband are at the Kop summit signing away the death nell for ice cars unfortunately, but Kier did say he wasn't going to tell us how to live . Do we believe him 😢

[@illustrious63]

They will sell you a battery for £40,000, but that doesn't mean that's how much it costs them.

[@davidmarshall5596]

Mister Macmaster! Sick & tired of all this EV malarkey * obsessed with net zero 😠🎉

[@geoffankrett7012]

I'm glad that there are people like this man that tells it like it is. I recently went looking at new cars and found out that they can't get rid of the EVs and they told me there orders are mainly for new diesels and petrol and there is a long waiting list, but I could have a new EV within a couple of weeks. It's the biggest con ever.

[@isildursbane2758]

Hybrids will have the same issue of unsafe batteries

[@DavyHeb]

I have been following this channel and others. Porsche may deeply regret going into the EV market with this car. My brother has a 2022 Taycan GTS it’s a great car phenomenal acceleration and handling. The main battery is a worry of fire risk and cost of replacement as well as the 12 volt lithium battery. Porsche should have concentrated on the fabulous 911 variants, the Boxter variants that became the Cayman variants. Proper high performance cars with character and sound. For Porsche this could be a VW “diesel gate” moment.

[@Shteev91]

Have said it before, will say it again. The next car he will buy will be an EV, despite pretending he hates the thing.

[@barriewilliams4526]

Can I borrow your crystal ball?

[@steve1113663]

Of course with low BIK tax and no BIk tax on charging either public and can claim back all home charging to business for personal miles as HMRC not see electric as fuel ..yet

[@polyphonics557]

If an EV has a higher up-front carbon cost of manufacture (largely due to the battery) and the car has to be recalled to have the battery replaced....then the carbon cost of the car jumps significantly so how many miles would have to be driven overall for the car to actually start saving on carbon emissions vs an ICE car?

[@vinnyward6547]

University of Liege researcher Damien Ernst said in 2019 that the typical EV would have to travel nearly 700,000 km before it emitted less CO2 than a comparable gasoline vehicle. He later revised his figures down. Now, he estimates the break-even point could be between 67,000 km and 151,000 km.

[@davidstafford803]

Anyone who buys an EV has not done their homework and obviously has more money than sense.

[@alanpowell2849]

I was looking at new houses yesterday, and one of the builders had included an electric car charging point on every new home. Prior to seeing this, I had predicted that in the future, all new houses would have this feature as standard.

[@captchaos6870]

Windmills will give us all our electricity. Shame there hasn't been any wind for weeks.

[@Jacob-yb6bv]

Or sun….

[@whocares264]

really, no wind at sea for weeks

[@kevinaldridge]

Barrie Crampton is doing some great videos on KZbin about the truth on EV sales etc. Well worth a look 💚

[@niged]

Agreed 👍👍

[@rbnhd1144]

But only if you can handle "the truth" about UK EV sales.

[@gregpies1649]

2 house fires every week caused by electric scooters and bikes in Australia. Increased insurance premiums for everyone because of this. And then there are the fires from EV's. It's a big con.

[@andrewbaron8713]

Saw a 2023 Taycan on motorway this weekend with 5000 miles , £53k 60% reduction in price in a year.

[@dangosypethau]

@@andrewbaron8713 no wonder EVs only make up 2.7% of the market.

[@otownracer]

EV owners will be charged per mile driven. Gas and diesel drivers are already charged per mile driven based on fuel taxes paid at the pump.

[@steve6375]

@@otownracer EV owners will be charged per kW via quick chargers having tax added. Already done in some USA states apparently

[@michaelmedicworldoftanks33fps]

Basically by the looks of it they won't be changing batteries but just installing module that's gonna make car charge to 80% and it's probably going to show on dash charged 100% when in fact it'll be 80% and I bet you people will notice decrease in range unfortunately.

[@crazyedits50]

They just change the battery module which I believe is quite a simple task once the battery is removed

[@robertnightingale4101]

What's the betting that the recall will result in software restricting charging to less than 80%

[@eugeneoregan3476]

The government made the deliberate decision to leave EV batteries unregulated regarding safety. Had they done so the result would have been that compliance costs would spiral making the cost well beyond a credible value. Thus we have spontaneous combustion of significant numbers of EVs in car parks, service stations, etc. The Luton airport fire is a prime example. They claimed the vehicle that caused this was a diesel. Having worked for over 40 years in transport logistics primarily diesel, we have never had any fire of this type, at any time, during my tenure. The second fact to support that fire being EV sourced was the spread being instantaneous, high temperatures, and the release of sulphuric acid plumes restricting fire officers from engaging to suppress it.

[@stephencrossland2493]

Yes they think we're complete idiots. Would not tell us the reg no.

[@EbenBransome]

You are simply wrong. BS ISO 12405-2:2012 Electrically propelled road vehicles applies as part of general vehicle safety standards. Since the ridiculous UKCA was abolished, we are back to CE standards. The Luton fire was identified from CCTV as being caused by a Diesel Range Rover, your word salad is nonsense.

[@lynnemorris7516]

Tell the Labour government about it. We are being forced to buy electric cars, have them or get off the road.

[@johntate5050]

It's not the cars that need re-calling, it's the buyers of the things that need re-calling. They all need an urgent brain scan.

[@Acemeistre]

@@johntate5050 maybe they had good reasons to buy one 🤔

[@chrisp7839]

@@johntate5050 that’s a little rude, and hardly funny.

[@Acemeistre]

@Dogeatdogworld-k5 another lost soul.

[@johnshaw359]

Don't forget, the price of a battery replacement is what you pay, not what it costs.

[@robblack7560]

Can't wait to see Halfords in a few years.

[@mikecassap]

Lee if it’s a battery recall it might be cheaper to set it on fire and claim the insurance. Claiming the battery’s were faulty 💥👍

[@fredonline]

You should nickname your car 'Recall', like that character in 'London's Burning'!

[@jonathancollard3710]

In the USA the battery is being “tuned down” to only accept 50% or 75% charge until the “fix” is released … sometime next year. Ergo, your distance will inherently reduce in miles.

[@PleaseStop_this]

Should have used Duracell long life, I've never had a recall on my torch 😮😮

[@peterward5686]

The only electric car I loved was a Dodgem Lee

[@kevinjacobs2730]

Porche won’t scrap the car as it not Porsche that will bear the cost of replacement of faulty parts. That liability is beared by the parts manufacturer who make the components etc. ( probably by their insurance).

[@johnlummis5119]

The depreciation alone should be enough to put people off from buying an EV , let alone the fire risk

[@crazyedits50]

I've been involved in two fuel engine fires both were super scary and both were caused by electrical failure

[@mickhardstaff6605]

It's been nothing but trouble since you first brought it Lee 😜

[@richardbartlett6932]

He never bought it..

[@matthewgodwin3050]

Funnily enough, a certain Mrs Wilson said exactly the same thing.

[@benshearrow]

I appreciate the information. I am lucky my 2018 Toyota Camry is still worth almost 60% of its initial cost after 6 1/2 years. It run on regular unleaded gas.

[@Nordic_Mechanic]

and doesnt require 25 apps with yet more passwords on a phone connected to a server to fuel up. Just cash, or debit or credit card. Seriously , what an hassle

[@PatriciaMegna]

Theres been a lot of house fires in Australia from people charging Escooters and Ebikes.

[@dane5896]

Here in the USA, we've had a lot of EV fires. People have lost their homes from EV fires. The last hurricane that hit Florida, the sea water caused the EV batteries go on fire.

[@rbnhd1144]

The Great thing here is we are not being forced into buying one, we have a choice.

[@chrisp7839]

@@dane5896 According to the NTSB battery powered vehicles suffered 25 fires per 100,000 sold, compared to 1530 per 100,000 for petrol vehicles. Of course they do take longer to put out, which is probably why they make the news more.

[@chrisp7839]

@@dane5896 “sea water caused the batteries to go on fire” - and what do you think caused the increasingly intense hurricanes that we are now getting ? Burning oil ! You’d think that would be a wake up call, but it seems sadly not.

[@hornslane]

NO surprises there!!

[@interceptor-ss8kb]

Time to get back to internal combustion

[@Vivian-g1h]

With a duff battery, it is worth £200 scrap and the battery cannot be salvaged and will cause widespread toxic environmental pollution.

[@paul4608]

We should have a recall on the government

[@ronnieg6358]

Makes me wonder if there's an opportunity for a firm to offer a conversion from electric back to petrol/diesel.

[@karlos543]

Trump would say:" Drill baby dril" 💪 This country is lost.😢

[@rbnhd1144]

Trump and Elon are pals, he wont care what we drive.

[@chrisp7839]

@@karlos543 just as long as the oil industry is happy. Doesn’t’ matter that vast areas of the country are blighted by polluted groundwater and unbreathable air. The rich don’t live they so they can ignore the damage

[@dereklane5688]

LG Chem pouch The 723-volt pack (835 volt full, 610 volt empty) has 33 modules with 12 LG Chem pouch cells each, for 396 cells in total. This battery is branded "Performance Battery Plus" (PB+).

[@chaosflower4892]

33 modules.. but thousands of cells.. the same cells, or very similar that you find in laptop battery packs, power tool battery packs.. and vapes. In fact some EV's use the same 18650 cells that you will find in vapes and laptops.. thousands of them.. Some LG Chem pounches had 18650's.. In Mac's Taycan I think will have 21700 cells. Each battery will have thousands of cells.

[@FreeThinkingRealist]

Ever wondered why car insurances are up by 50% for EVERYONE?... Psst, now you know...lol

[@djhvideo]

Lee, with respect, do not worry about the resale price and depreciation. On your PCP deal all you have to do at the end of your deal is to hand in the keys and walk away.

[@bentullett6068]

Also to add. This recall explains why those two car transporter ships carrying Taycans went up in smoke.

[@JRMillican]

Thought they were Audi

[@bentullett6068]

@@JRMillican Porsche and Audi

[@flitsies]

With regards to the batteries, just because they charge you 45 grand to buy the battery doesn't mean that's what they pay for them, for them to sell the battery to you for 45 grand they probably only pay around 10 grand, so still viable for them potentially.

[@otownracer]

It's a good thing you charge your Taycan outside and not inside a garage attached to your home.

[@pauldavison9512]

Take the batteries out and put a engine in it.

[@BarryGray-db4yn]

Amazing, 27 thousand people silly enough to buy an electric car

[@hcw199]

COVID proved how stupid the majority are.

[@crazyedits50]

300,000 electric cars on UK roads at last count 3% of all cars on the roads

[@johnnydoe1984]

Mr nudge shill , crazy in the name , crazy in posts and he's done a few , almost like ......he's paid to do so ??

[@AndyBurr-du3vt]

@crazyedits50 what is percentage of these EVs are private sales as opposed to Company cars for tax!....Remember it 0% on diesel cars 20 years ago

[@Hell-Hound1]

@@crazyedits50 It's 1,300,000 EVs on UK roads.

[@elliottpeters2996]

I wonder ...miss the recall, for whatever reason, and your car bursts into flames in the Waitrose car park .. it will be a glorious day for your insurance company! They will have a legal right to refuse your claim. Caveat emptor with bells on!!

[@thegman8650]

It’s actually a cool way of parking your car for this vid. You should have slid over the bonnet like Starsky just for a bit of added fun.

[@TheMacMaster]

Lol. 😂

[@RichardGray-p3u]

Well fortunately it will never affect me as I can’t even dream of buying a new EV of any type and at 70 years old will never need one my little petrol car will see me out😢

[@Susie-s7f]

My husband drives a Ford Kuga diesel automatic. When asked if he’d trade it in for a new electric one his answer was a resounding NO! 😂

[@flitsies]

What you need rather than buying super expensive electric cars is to buy the T03 that costs around 8 grand supposedly. It's just an ordinary car that runs on electric with an average range and speed.

[@NannyRose2289]

The added stupidity of EV's is the fact that there is even less Lithium as a resource on the planet than there is fossil fuels, so how on earth EV's have even been selected as the future of motoring is beyond the comprehension of my ADHD brain! If they need to move away from fossil fuels then they need to choose an element that has near infinite resources, not an element that is in even more short supply than oil!

[@AndrewLeith-m8y]

I’ve got a self charging hybrid Toyota Yaris and love the fact I don’t have to plug it in to charge it, it uses the breaking energy to put charge back into the battery, I would be nervous of the time it takes to charge a fully electric vehicle if I was going on a long journey, get rid of your Porsche for something more reliable. Love watching your videos 👍

[@redsidebiker]

They didn't say replace the battery pack, just the affected modules - a module is a section of the battery pack. My guess is the control packs are developing issues. In 39 years of car ownership, I've had one car subject to a recall, at 15 years old! In the interim Lee, buy some Nomex undies 🙂

[@toyotatim2521]

I'm an MOT tester and I love EVs as there's no emissions to test and no bonnet to bother looking under, only problem I do have is when I don't realise it's an EV when I get in and the engine wont start 😅

[@alanmiell3224]

They will only replace the damaged cells , not the entire battery pack

[@allanhvidt-nielsen7777]

Not sure, but you might have a LG Chem battery in your car. Lately LG also have had issues with their home battery storage units. In Australia we have been told to turn it off, and contact supplier.

[@JeTTRod]

How can it be better for the environment to have a new car than say a 1978 chevette, once you factor in all the extra mining required for the added electronics and sensors, vast amounts of oil based plastics, and carrying all that extra weight in a new small car, compared to the light weight due to simplicity of a 1978 chevette? The extra weight of new cars, and the energy required to make them, has to be worse than the couple extra liters of gas that an old chevette might burn in its lifetime, plus the chevette can be easily recycled because its made of steel, not plastic.

[@theronwolf3296]

The 'sales figures' typically include fleet cars, which are purchased by companies for tax reasons.

[@TABRO284]

I wont buy any new car now because of the lane assist mandate. No way am I buying a car that takes control of the steering wheel.

[@markevans3488]

Or you could just switch it off each time 🤔

[@TABRO284]

@@markevans3488 No because It can, glitch, fail or be hacked.

[@williamgeorgefraser]

Your Taycan is now so famous on KZbin you should put it up for auction and hopefully some collector will buy it and put it in a museum. That way it will probably outlive the rest of its family by many decades.

[@KermitAugustine-ge2wj]

Batteries are for toys not for real cars!

[@WeAreAllDoomed-n5i]

What do Porsche batteries and AnnSummers toys have in common? Bend over Sir while we service the account!

[@holmfirthcomputers220]

It's ironic that they knew the battery was a fire risk when you bought the bloody thing :( Thanx for vid ;)

[@allsearpw3829]

PORSCHE , should be paying you ? about £10 k per call back . 🤔

[@DerryboyOzziebloke]

Some 858 Taycans were initially identified as being at risk and recalled in January, but after further checks the company determined that further vehicles could also be affected.

[@mbp1505]

Taking in to account all of the problems and recalls you’ve experienced surely you’d have a case to return as not fit for purpose.

[@steadfastandyx4947]

A recent E bike fire in Coventry has killed one or two people. We may have a mad net 0 government but at least we live in a glorious country when the sun occasionally shines.

[@matthewgodwin3050]

As the owner of both a Crystal Ball and a Black Cat, I'm well placed to tell you that battery operated cars are definitely not the future.

[@mauricewatton9130]

Surely if battery modules replaced doesn’t mean whole battery replacement. If whole battery was replaced wouldn’t that be better for you when you sell it. Great videos and discussion on talk radio 👍

[@peterdashper2251]

You are not being truly accurate. The article didn't say the battery will need replacing. It said the control module

[@waynekaminski5438]

MacMaster is on the right logic, but the price won't be by the mile. The government agencies that regulate carbon in fuel will simply drive up the cost at the pump so the cost borne by an ICE vehicle owner will be by per liter or gallon!

[@JoLovell]

The future is a worry 😟

[@spencereagle1118]

Never in the entire history of consumer goods has the buying public been expected to accept a retrograde product in place of a far better existing solution.

[@mrumbug]

So, now that you know that your electric car as above average likelihood of catching fire. What would happen if your car catches fire on the driveway with you knowing this information and it were to burn the house down. It would be interesting to know what your house insurance company would say.....but sir, you knew of the risk. Sorry you have no cover

[@James_Watson49]

Great Vid Lee, that's my mates Alfa at the Motorist Alec!

[@alan4golf]

I have always wondered what will happen with all the batteries from electric cars , will they end up in landfill , how green that will be

[@bentullett6068]

They end up in a recycling centre that may or may not set on fire and after being sprayed with gallons of water may poison the waterways nearby.

[@kennethausten]

I won't comply , never will. Until the price is sensible and fire proof.

[@GeoffBuysCars]

Do you need me to have another Volvo delivered to your door??

[@redsidebiker]

525d Estate. Make it an auto, he's forgotten geaboxes!

[@TheMacMaster]

Noooooooo!!!

[@robertdobson6490]

When ALL costs of car ownership are taken into account every road user has always been paying per mile driven - with sales tax on car sales, vehicle depreciation, taxes on petrol/ diesel, car servicing and spare parts etc etc. The greater the use of the car the greater the running costs

[@markiangooley]

Maybe they’ll replace the batteries for free and so the car will be rejuvenated!