I won't park next to an EV just in case it spontaniously combusts.

NO EV's should be allowed in the Channel tunnel.

If electric cars and their associated batteries were good, this channel would not exist and grow as it does. Good job mate 😉👍

Lithium batteries keep people warm, while trapped inside their crashed EV's.

AS the vehicles get older and the batteries deteriorate, expect to see more fires.

Now it doesn't even make sense for someone with off-street parking, good home charging, and who just needs a car for short trips to buy an EV. The fire danger is too high.

Don't be fooled. Yes, there may be fewer EV fires... since there are many fewer EVs. But the bad environmental impact from one EV fire is massively higher than one gasoline fire.

Got news this morning. My Wifes friend bought a cheap battery bicycle for her 1/2 mile journey to work. Well, now they need a new kitchen. Last night it let go big style while on charge. Fortunately they managed to throw the damn thing outside but they need a new kitchen and her husband has burnt hands and fore arms. Nasty.

The jab and EV's are 1984

Check this out> Central London has a clean air act making everyone have too buy a zero emissions vehicle, EVs or pay £15.00 per day. They have now just announced that from December 2025 this will be turned into a congestion charge and everyone will have to pay the £15.00 a day to drive in central London regardless of it being an EV or not, you can imagine the reaction....still if you vote for Sadiq Khan what do you expect to happen 😂

The pollution produced by one EV fire far outweighs any benefits from hundreds if not thousands of EV's.

It's only going to get worse as the Chinese make them cheaper/ more crap????

Amazing video, you work for 40yrs to have 1£M in your retirement, meanwhile some people are putting just £10K into trading from just few weeks ago and now they are multimillionaires

They Are Battery Cars ! Give children back their batteries!

Home Garages will need Signage for Firefighters. Fire hazard ⚠ EV. just watch the Bureaucrats have a field day.

Just ordered new hearing aids. I was given the option of paying $500 extra for rechargeable ones with lithium ion batteries. Recharge time is 32 hours for 21 hours run time. Financially, this would have cost more over the expected life of the units. Expected replaceable battery cost is $50 per year. My wife's comment was "What? Pay extra to have 2 explosions on your ears?" Edit: not car related, but still lithium ion batteries.

I love the fact that none of these news organizations have not reported on any of these major fires.

EVs can't be charged in high heat due to the risk of catching fire and they can't be used in real cold climates because the capacity drops. Just GREAT Its time to scrap this idea.

Try telling Casanova (Bowen) this, in 55yrs on this planet, I have never seen a more clueless, stupid politician.

We stayed in a skyscraper in Brisbane last week and in the survey we said nice place but we felt concern about EVs in the basement car park. They replied favourably thanking us for the input

A battery under the mattress, what insanity.

How long before UK electric buses are cancelled and who pays?

I have posted this warning in other video comments but I think it is worth repeating. I had a little lithium 5B power pack I used to charge my phone when away from home. I had not used it for months and assumed it had very little charge. It developed a swelling and split open. I foolishly picked it up to try and clip the case back together and it literally exploded into flames and clouds of gas in my hand. Fortunately I immediately dropped it so I did not get burned but it burned a hole in the carpet and wood floor beneath. If this had happened when I was not present it would have burned the house down. Be warned.

Eventually, there is going to be a class action lawsuit, naming multiple automakers, because of EVs causing property damage and deaths after catching fire, and that's going to be the end of EVs.

These batteries are susceptible to micro cracking which connected to a chassis that twists naturally is exacerbated.

Increasing numbers of EV fires that create toxic smoke and runoff water and there is no secure, permanent disposal for the batteries. Yet the nebulous threat of "global climate change" is still considered the main problem.

Zero emmision amiright , look at all those pitch black smoke fires that can take days to stop, trully green

Imagine a caravan fire in the middle of a forest

For Americans watching....a caravan is a towed camper/mobile house .

Wonder how much this attempt to change the World has and will cost us.?

The threat to insurance company profits may prove to be the reality check for the EV zealots.

Remember, there is a reason these EV companies don't want anything to do with fixing damaged cars. Its all about fire risk. Not because they can't replace the plastic bumper on your Tesla.

A few years ago I ran a company that developed battery powered medical devices. We eventually switched to the same type of lithium batteries used in EV's. We were then unable to ship them by air because of the 'high risk' and so clearly the government has already decided that these cells are potentially dangerous. However they now want to force us to have many thousands of these in our homes.

......... and there's still people walking downwind of the caravan fire !!

The transfer of energy involves a chemical reaction in a battery. This reaction creates heat, even in the smallest battery. Heat increases as more energy is transferred, both when charging or discharging. This is why the large batteries in cars are so complicated - and vulnerable to leaking coolant after a collision.

I have worked with technology all my life. Computer builder, programmer, electronics engineer. I do not carry a smart phone around with me everywhere, don't want to. I rarely use a calculator, because I have one in my skull. I have always viewed technology as a tool to assist, not replace. Yes even these batteries are great technology. That of course doesn't mean that they don't have serious issues as we know. The problem isn't really the batteries or AI for example. It is greed and self interest. This technology is being controlled by morons. The companies, CEO's, governments etc, full of people without even a basic level of intelligence and knowledge of what they are doing.

Remember when safety was the number one priority, now so called green is all that matters.

Massive Blaze just being reported on Express UK: "Liverpool fire LIVE : Merseyside industrial estate in flames as firefighters rush to scene". Photos seem to show that it's a recycling centre. Most certainly another Lithium Battery is the cause.

In the future will EV charge stations need to be equipped with a fire suppression system? I would say yes since petrol does.

Almost 80% of ICE fires due to age (10+ year old car). EV fleet is new. Wait for it!

Your EV is charging in your garage. How ya sleeping?!

I’ve heard that some of the EV makers have come out with a kit to assist the drivers in case of fire.Its a small container that you should open if your EV catches fire.It’s easy to use and extremely effective and protects the driver from harm .Simply open the box and rapidly read the directions.”RUN LIKE HELL”.

the big problem with most EV is in the multitude of the cells not being balance charged, they are being charged in series by a single control board that is only looking at the end voltage of the cells as a whole. the system needs to be able to access and charge each cell, as well as perform internal resistance testing, along with having controlled access to the discharge of the whole bank while charging. in drone racing we have to manually charge our multi-cell LiPo batteries, and our chargers are made with individual cell access, resistance readouts, and voltage cutoffs. in my personal opinion the charging systems need to be regulated on the E-vehicle producers side of things first, and improving customer safety awareness immediately after that because most people think batteries are just magic, they have no idea what safe voltage, internal resistance, or a lithium dendrite even are.

6:24 The cameras caught the beginning of the blaze but nobody will ever get to see it. We're being lied to.

When NASA had to nerve to choose solid rocket boosters for the shuttle... pretty sure many people lost sleep over that decision, once lit, much like lithium ion batteries, it's go time and you will not extinguish them even with an ocean of water. Lithium ion batteries have managed to turn green to black w/o missing a beat.

Hi MGUY 3 Swedish workers at a battery plant have died after coming home from work. There were around 20, 32, and 60 years old. The authorities are now starting to investigate if their deaths is caused by working in the battery plant and maybe caused by some chemicals in the plant. But not much is being said in the news about the situation.

The problem with the batteries is in the manufacturing. I have done microscopic examination of lithium ion battery cells both new and old and ruptured. Even brand new cells have significant chemical erosion at all points of stress within the casing. It is my opinion that in order to save money and boost profits the metal used is nickel plated before the canister is formed. During manufacture the metal is stretched and compressed from a disc to a canister. The effect on the nickel plating is devastating with a catastrophic failure of the nickel seal leaving the metal underneath open to chemical erosion. Millions and millions of these battery cells are out there and every single one is a ticking bomb. I can't have been the only one to have cut open and observed the reason for cell failure. I believe that if the canisters were plated post forming then we wouldn't be seeing anywhere near as many issues but then cells would cost twice as much.

So where is Chris Bowen in all of this? He lives in oblivious land with green friends.

Last Wednesday I was rushing to use the toilet at Merchants Quay in Cork City,I left the phone behind, other than that I would have photographic images. An electric scooter burned at a bus stop until there was only wheel bearings left behind. Fire officers told me not an isolated issue, nothing in the local paper. Are they allowed on public transport?

I have often said that if I won an EV in a raffle or whatever, I would accept it. I would then give it away to the person I dislike most in the world.

No one seems to be talking about the nanoparticles that these "heavy EVs" are emitting in to the air, via excessive tyre wear?🤔

No one saw it coming.

Will planning permission be allowed for EV charging where a row of vehicles are in a line or grouped together in bays side by side?

That caravan fire is very interesting, it could well have been LiFePO4 battery, the so called "safe lithium battery". Yeah right, they still catch on fire!

What a shocker.....

For many of us the massive flaws & inconsistencies of the big EV push were always obvious (and for many others the EV prices are just unaffordable anyway.) However, for those with more money than they have time to examine the issue - this channel ought to be essential viewing.

I have more confidence in nuclear energy, not any confidence in batteries.

The Green Initiative

5:25 Good thing nobody was in that caravan at the time. 1 narrow door up the front to escape from and possibly some push out windows that you can't climb through. You're toast if it ever goes up and your path is blocked to the exit. When I had a camper truck, I stored the batteries outside (lead acid deep cycle *not lithium*) and there was a good 10 + mm thick solid steel between the inside and outside (floor). Of course that thickness of steel for a caravan would make it too heavy (maybe 1 tonne of steel along), but it provided some sort of protection from the outside problems if an explosion ever did occur. I was only running 24 volts (a few 12v in series and parallel) and you'd more likely boil the acid out of them before you blew them up.

Culligan water delivery started changing to electric delivery vans in my area of Canada. They can't keep them running and are forced to use their ICE vans to get water delivered on time.

Dont look very zero emission...

I saw a Amazon EV truck dead in my neighborhood with all the stuff being put into a ICE Amazon truck 😂

Tesla Y: Heads Up Display? Nope High Res Video Rear View camera? Nope Leather Seats? Nope Seating Color Choice Beyond Black or White? Nope Luxurious interior? Nope Memory Settings for Seating, Side mirrors and Steering Column for 2 people? Nope 450 Miles Range? Nope 100% Recharge in 3 Minutes? Nope Then I am NOT interested.

Re. the Bundaberg caravan fire , I don't know who wrote that the second van was not destroyed but at 5:12 the second van is the one closest to the camera , does anyone think that was repairable 😄 ??

Has anyone factored in the volume & cost of additional fire tenders & crews required to keep them on site for hours to make sure these batteries are actually out?

I never trust news sources that don't know the difference between Lithium and Lithium Ion batteries

Here in New Zealand we have a compliant legacy media who don’t cover anything negative EV or battery related. But cover the opening of a charging station like the second coming.

The heat, smoke, and toxic fumes from these things are going to cost lives.

I love the new term you created. EVs should appropriate be renamed to ECV - External Combustion Vehicles.

The mainstream media covers it up, nothing to see here.

I'm reading this on a lithium-ion-powered laptop, with a similarly energized phone and flashlight sitting nearby. These items used to be my friends, but now I'm not so sure.

Nothing more unsustainable than toxic batteries.

A lot of the new vans are running more of these batteries and lots of solar to keep them going. I also saw that some are running normal household fridges via inverters off them now. Not sure I would be happy sleeping on top of that lot given the pounding that some off road vans take tbh. I think I shall keep my camping nice and simple.

About 40 years ago I came across a Rolls Royce on fire beside the road attended by a fire engine. The fire was apparently burning very fiercely on the door cill and the fire fighters were doing nothing but watch it. "Will you not put this out", I asked? "No", one of them said and continued to explain that (like Lithium batteries) the magnesium metal cill panel on this car made its own OXYGEN whilst it burned and could not be extinguished. These guys just had to make sure the fire did not spread to close by woodland.

The EMF created by a 2,000 pound lithium battery inches under the car seats would worry me more than a possible fire. I certainly would never allow children to be in that car.

I love that Korean news report: "The battery was quickly removed from the railcar and dropped in a vat of water, and the fire was put out 5 hours later." I think they're missing a little detail there.

Thieves In Seattle Targeting EV Charging Stations Has Reached "Epidemic Proportions" zerohedge

At least one President has a concern for safety!!

Some things happen in a carpark in Cheltenham UK yesterday.

Goodness, who could have seen this coming? 🙄

Interesting that the old 'dirty' lead-acid batteries are much more easily recycle, don't go into thermal runaway and can be more easily put out by water or suppressor chemicals.

I wonder if he covered the 250 megawatt power station fire that burned for 2 weeks in California before 🤔🤔🤔

That's why I never wasted my money on those lithium battery generators. 🇺🇸

The sad thing is that, as these incidents increase, those of us who have been smart enough to avoid any connection with these battery powered monstrosities will be losing our property and perhaps even our lives….

What a surprise................

I talked to two Amazon Prime electric truck drivers, one man, one woman who happened to be delivering in our neighborhood. They told me their routes are limited to just the local area because of the limited range of the vehicles, about 130 miles ("on a good day") as one of the drivers remarked, so management doesn't want them straying very far from the charging station. Why anyone would want to add that kind of aggravation to an already complicated delivery system is anybody's guess. This is in the Denver, CO area, by the way.

Lithium ion batteries _are_ excellent for small, portable devices, yes. If they spontaneously combust, they can be easily dropped to the ground and allowed to burn. But their viability _at that size_ does not scale up into vehicles. The increase in volts, amps, and heat during charge and discharge turns them into time bombs. If I drop my phone during casual use, it is extraordinarily unlikely to rupture the battery. With the amount of mass involved in a vehicle, with all the various mounts, brackets, and attempts to distribute loads, any accident can cause a tremendous amount of shifting and shearing in the frame, battery casing, and other components, turning EVs into the Ford Pinto of this generation.

I would be nervous having an EV parked so close to my house for charging or just parking. It takes one thing and then its alight. Yes I know ICE engines can catch fire too, but EV fires are horrendous and so much harder to put out.

The Transformers surprise: when your EV transforms in the middle of the night with a woa-woa-woa sound into a combustible vehicle....

So that's what net zero looks like? Looks pretty polluted to me.

Just wait a few years for today's generation of batteries to start degrading and there'll be some fireworks.

I don't see a problem here. Just another safe and effective technology. 🙃

There was a big push a few years ago to get vehicles to use dual fuel with petrol / LPG , subsidies were used and the carrot of cheap fuel with low excise ( gradually increasing over a period of years ). I note that dual fuel vehicles are a rare animal these days . I suspect EV's will follow a similar path given existing issues plus a road tax in some form is yet to be implemented , further eroding any perceived or anticipated per km cost benefit . The caveat there is what might happen in the battery technology field , e.g sodium ion , Graphene etc. , I'm happy to advocate for EV's when the battery tech. improves .

Lithium battery's require a maintenance charge after plug in and use cycles. You can plug and charge on vreaks for example but a maintenance charge is required which im guessing these van are not getting. I work for an international manual handling company and the Lithium battery's are failing due to this and recording over amp charging faults causing battery failure and thermal incidents.

Lots getting fitted to boats also

The real benefit of an EV over a gas car can be easily listed, please see below... ...

Well, there's an old saying that goes 'Act in haste, repent at leisure'. The unseemly haste with which we have been saddled with this immature technology is now turning on us. Do our politicians NEVER learn?

I had a laptop get very hot on me once. Whenever I have left home without it, I kept it in the shower until I got it replaced. The new unit never gave me any troubles afterwards, but it shows what A hit and miss the battery problems within these can be..

swapping internal for external combustion that line is a keeper

Internal Combustion vs External Combustion ... LOL