"Battery explosion?"

[el caminero]

Of those three rules for avoiding a fire while refueling your vehicle, the first two make sense to me. But the third rule, about not re-entering your car while refueling, doesn't cut it with reality. When the weather is bitter cold or raining heavily, few folks seem to stand out in the elements until finishing refueling. Personally I have not seen a car fire at a gas station even once in my life, and I have been filling up car gas tanks for well over 60 years, so I am not going to worry much about this.

Touch the carbody on exiting, grounds out any static your clothes and upholstery have created by your sliding in and out. There is a youtoob short featuring a gal got back in the suv and slid straight out, too young and limber to grab the door or frame to assist exiting, and the spark comes off her fingertips as she grabs the nozzle, which flares up. She had the presence to think about shutting-off the flow, or there may have been more to the video.

 

[redhawker]

PLUS, The Tesla and other electric toys are MUCH heavier in weight on the road surfaces; PLUS they pay NO ROAD TAXES gathered by the tax on gasoline and diesel.

Don't worry. Commiefornia is working on that. Soon everybody (and I'm betting it will be EVERYBODY) will be paying a mileage tax, taxing you on how many miles you drive. This is supposedly so EVs pay their fair share. HOWEVER, since it is Commiefonia, I'm gonna bet that anyone who owns a gasoline or diesel powered vehicle will pay the mileage tax on top of the regular taxes on fuel. They have to punish them evil fossil fuel users, ya know.

 

[3manfan]

Well, I hope that thing a couple weeks ago I ordered wasn't on it!

 

[el caminero]

Don't worry. Commiefornia is working on that. Soon everybody (and I'm betting it will be EVERYBODY) will be paying a mileage tax, taxing you on how many miles you drive. This is supposedly so EVs pay their fair share. HOWEVER, since it is Commiefonia, I'm gonna bet that anyone who owns a gasoline or diesel powered vehicle will pay the mileage tax on top of the regular taxes on fuel. They have to punish them evil fossil fuel users, ya know.

Wonder how well this goes over when kalifornya pulls from your plugged-in tesla to feed the grid like they said they could do/were doing

 

[MaxMan]

Once the roads are full of Teslas we will long for the good old days of the Pinto, virtually fireproof by comparison...

If you can get to a charging station

 

[blume357]

I still say if you have an all electric car just carry a good quality camping generator in the trunk with 2 gallons of gas... run the battery low and just hook up and charge it. Yes, it might take a while but you know we are all in too much of a hurry anyway.....

 

[Ride1949]

 

[el caminero]

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Good laugh. California eucalyptis lining the road?
Somewhere online is a pic of an industrial size generator truck, with a fat handful of lectricars suckling...

 

[blume357]

I was serious and I like the idea of an electric car and my solution to the potential problem seems actually practical to me. But then I was a Boy Scout. My wife bought a hybrid and I really like it, I know it is way over engineered and I wonder what will eventually go wrong with it, (other than the battery draining itself if you don't drive it for three weeks... that's an easy fix) Also there being no spare donut tire, but that is normal it seems in a lot of newer cars.... new generation probably does not know how to change a tire anyway....