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Inconvenient location for an EV to catch fire
« on: 26 July 2023, 14:56:23 »
Ameland rescue: Ship with 3,000 cars in deadly fire off Dutch coast https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66310280
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Re: Inconvenient location for an EV to catch fire
« Reply #1 on: 26 July 2023, 15:00:35 »
Quote from: STEMO on 26 July 2023, 14:56:23
Ameland rescue: Ship with 3,000 cars in deadly fire off Dutch coast https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66310280

3000 cars, 25 of them electric. Hmmmm
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Re: Inconvenient location for an EV to catch fire
« Reply #2 on: 26 July 2023, 16:05:49 »
Quote from: LC0112G on 26 July 2023, 15:00:35
Quote from: STEMO on 26 July 2023, 14:56:23
Ameland rescue: Ship with 3,000 cars in deadly fire off Dutch coast https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66310280

3000 cars, 25 of them electric. Hmmmm
Yes, Malcolm, one electric car has destroyed all of those lovely ICE vehicles. Sounds reasonable to me  ;D
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Re: Inconvenient location for an EV to catch fire
« Reply #3 on: 26 July 2023, 16:34:08 »
I wonder what will happen the first time one catches fire on the Chunnel.
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Re: Inconvenient location for an EV to catch fire
« Reply #4 on: 26 July 2023, 16:56:15 »
Quote from: LC0112G on 26 July 2023, 16:34:08
I wonder what will happen the first time one catches fire on the Chunnel.
They'll be banned until their safety record improves..........pleeeeease  ;D
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Re: Inconvenient location for an EV to catch fire
« Reply #5 on: 26 July 2023, 17:28:25 »
Quote from: STEMO on 26 July 2023, 16:56:15
Quote from: LC0112G on 26 July 2023, 16:34:08
I wonder what will happen the first time one catches fire on the Chunnel.
They'll be banned until their safety record improves..........pleeeeease  ;D
Indeed  ;)
they need to STOP the roll out of electric cars and trying (and failing) to be carbon neutral etc until 2075 at least .
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Re: Inconvenient location for an EV to catch fire
« Reply #6 on: 26 July 2023, 18:07:24 »
Electric cars they are the work of the devil..😈
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Re: Inconvenient location for an EV to catch fire
« Reply #7 on: 26 July 2023, 18:10:48 »
I saw a learner in a driving school car yesterday, driving what appeared to be an electric car.
Anyone know the legalities of what you can / cant drive if you take your test in an electric car ?
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Re: Inconvenient location for an EV to catch fire
« Reply #8 on: 26 July 2023, 18:27:51 »
Quote from: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 26 July 2023, 18:10:48
I saw a learner in a driving school car yesterday, driving what appeared to be an electric car.
Anyone know the legalities of what you can / cant drive if you take your test in an electric car ?

Presumably you can't drive a car with a manual gearbox. Or you'd think so anyway, but that would be common sense!  :D
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Re: Inconvenient location for an EV to catch fire
« Reply #9 on: 26 July 2023, 18:28:39 »
Quote from: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 26 July 2023, 18:10:48
I saw a learner in a driving school car yesterday, driving what appeared to be an electric car.
Anyone know the legalities of what you can / cant drive if you take your test in an electric car ?

You are entitled to drive any automatic vehicle, the same as if you pass your test in an ICE automatic.  :y
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Re: Inconvenient location for an EV to catch fire
« Reply #10 on: 26 July 2023, 19:10:54 »
Electrics arent exactly like automatics though afaik ?  Do they have drive / neutral/ reverse/ and a selector for various gears like an auto ?  :-\
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Re: Inconvenient location for an EV to catch fire
« Reply #11 on: 26 July 2023, 20:18:25 »
Quote from: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 26 July 2023, 19:10:54
Electrics arent exactly like automatics though afaik ?  Do they have drive / neutral/ reverse/ and a selector for various gears like an auto ?  :-\
Perhaps just a forward and back switch?  :-\ ???
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Re: Inconvenient location for an EV to catch fire
« Reply #12 on: 26 July 2023, 20:50:02 »
Must check one out when Im back in work Friday. If it is just a forward / back switch, thats quite different, for a novice, from driving a normal auto car.
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Re: Inconvenient location for an EV to catch fire
« Reply #13 on: 26 July 2023, 21:45:37 »
Quote from: ronnyd on 26 July 2023, 20:18:25
Quote from: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 26 July 2023, 19:10:54
Electrics arent exactly like automatics though afaik ?  Do they have drive / neutral/ reverse/ and a selector for various gears like an auto ?  :-\
Perhaps just a forward and back switch?  :-\ ???

That's all my Merc has .... ie a column stalk (there's park & neutral too)
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Re: Inconvenient location for an EV to catch fire
« Reply #14 on: 26 July 2023, 22:03:47 »
No flappy buttons on the back of the wheel :-\
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