EV cars abandoned roadside after battery out of juice (video compilation)
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During the tropical storm that hit NYC earlier this fall, innundated the city with 8 inches of rain and shut down subway service for almost 2 days, there were MULTIPLE electric vehicle fires from waterlogged EVs. Full on conflagrations which required road crews to bulldoze the burning vehicles into ditches or gravel pits because there was no way to put out the intense hydrogen-fueled flames. The heat from these were also so intense that molten aluminum and other metals slagged the part of the roads they were on and damaged the blacktop.
As I learned with my Corolla hybrid batteries dont like cold weather. In normal weather she gets between 53-65 mpg (the 65 when on back roads tarvelling around 45-55 mph). When it gets cold, with the anti gel crap they add, down to 48 mpg or so.
When you’ve been doing this all your life
and this likely the first boat you ever sailed on
and this is one of the earliest pictures of your own self and this is likely the first boat you ever sailed
and this is the boat, you’ve owned since 1990. So you went shooting at Prince Memorial on Thursday but sailed this fine little craft on Friday
There is NO Sale,,,,,it’s only SAIL, SAIL, SAIL!!!
She’s not the largest sailboat we’ve ever owned and certainly not the fastest, but we have owned her the longest, and pictured above, she is shown, winning a race where every boat in the fleet owned her time and she finished the forth leg thereby winning the race before the second place boat finished the third leg. In light air, she can outrun the Wrath of GOD
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Picturing our boat above, I am sure the greenie weenies would say she is very green.
Well is she?
First, depending on whether we use a small IC outboard or an electric outboard to get out of her slip, where is the energy coming from?
Second, she has more hydrocarbon products in here than probably 99% of the motor vehicles have on the road today, even those with full fuel tanks, (18 wheelers are NOT excepted!)
a. Her hull is resin infused glass fibers
b. Her sails are 100% hydrocarbon fibers, even the Kevlar in her Genoa
c. Her running rigging is 100% hydrocarbon fibers
d. Rollers and bearings and much of the cleats are made of hydrocarbons
Excepting her lead keel, rudder post, wooden tiller and mast/boom, most of her standing rigging, parts of the blocks, jib tracts and traveler runner are metal
So, is she green? You make the call. I say she is about as green as a 1967 C-2 Corvette with a 435hp 427.
She is an ultra-lightweight, with almost half her total weight in the keel alone. When sailing, you can go below and watch the water rush by her hull, through the hull.
Well is she?
First, depending on whether we use a small IC outboard or an electric outboard to get out of her slip, where is the energy coming from?
Second, she has more hydrocarbon products in here than probably 99% of the motor vehicles have on the road today, even those with full fuel tanks, (18 wheelers are NOT excepted!)
a. Her hull is resin infused glass fibers
b. Her sails are 100% hydrocarbon fibers, even the Kevlar in her Genoa
c. Her running rigging is 100% hydrocarbon fibers
d. Rollers and bearings and much of the cleats are made of hydrocarbons
Excepting her lead keel, rudder post, wooden tiller and mast/boom, most of her standing rigging, parts of the blocks, jib tracts and traveler runner are metal
So, is she green? You make the call. I say she is about as green as a 1967 C-2 Corvette with a 435hp 427.
She is an ultra-lightweight, with almost half her total weight in the keel alone. When sailing, you can go below and watch the water rush by her hull, through the hull.
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