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Fisker Hybrids Get Bad Karma From Superstorm Sandy
New submitter slas6654 writes with this excerpt from Jalopnik: "Approximately 16 of the $100,000+ Fisker Karma extended-range luxury hybrids were parked in Port Newark, New Jersey last night when water from Hurricane Sandy's storm surge apparently breached the port and submerged the vehicles. As Jalopnik has exclusively learned, the cars then caught fire and burned to the ground.' Apparently Fiskar super-duty lithium ion batteries are neither water-proof or water soluble."
It looks like several were close together, while others parked a little bit away were unscathed. Perhaps one caught fire and that burnt adjacent cars? They were parked pretty close, and there's a Karma in one of the photos that didn't suffer the same fate.
Because most cars don't burst into flame when submerged.
The party's over
On the upside, switching to EV's will seriously reduce the frequency of flood damaged cars being sold as 'working perfectly'
People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people
Only if you're not burning coal or oil to generate the electricity to charge that EV... Just sayin'.
Until we have reliable alternatives, coal and Oil will be used until they disappear completely.
BTW ... obvious reasons. ... damn rivers ... kills birds ... Rare Earth Mineral Mining not allowed
Can't have Nuclear
Can't use Hydro Electric
Can't use windmills
Can't use Solar Voltaic
Let me know when we have viable alternatives that won't be outsourced to China or other third world nation.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.