I've heard that 95% of e vs are still on the road.The other 5% made it home .

I saw on the TV a few weeks back, Do NOT charge your electric bike in the house ( then showed an electric bike on fire in a house) Yes the house went up in flames. The madness of green has truly showed it's true thickness. Insurance companies must be laughing their heads off. Hi, I'd like house insurance please, "Do you own an electric car, bike, or anything like that" Yes, "Well that'll be a billion quid" Oh Bugger!!!

I’m just waiting for the ambulance chasing lawyers to set up a “my electric car” compensation claim scheme…

John Cadogan's key piece of advice. "If you are near an EV fire, get UPWIND of it - the gases from it can poison and kill you".

I know a guy here in the USA who purchased a Rivian pickup. Took a year to get it, has had it less than a year, and the battery failed. Lucky for him, it was still under warranty, so the Rivian replaced it. It was a $34,000.00 replacement cost. Sounds like something I would take a pass on. Two batteries for my Superduty diesel cost less than $400.00.

When the motorcycle training and tests changed in the mid 2000s, I knew then that the goal was a slow creep towards making independent travel more and more difficult. The real aim is stopping everyone moving at all.

I've noticed many battery powered vehicle evangelist becoming very unhinged at all the negative publicity about e.v.'s. Many of them say this is just a small price to pay to save the planet. Yes this may turn into another mental health crisis soon.

I have three 2002 V70's. In Ireland. One for parts which has been a goldmine for keeping me on the road against a system that hates me for it. Clearly, I won't be, or can't afford to buy an EV.

I wonder if insurance companies will stop insuring your home if your EV was parked in your garage or insurance costs will rise. Interesting problem for the future if more EV fires continue.

Geoff should look up the founder of Greenpeace. He is almost spot on about the climate scare, and I think also on the EV's. Not a word about the ship from Germany that burned last year, not the one burning now, not the hazards of home charging and possibly dodgy batteries from contractors, and nothing about loads on roads and infrastructure in the Legacy media in my country. Just sickening.

Eurotunnel and car ferry operators need to think long and hard about this potential and very serious issue (the fire extinguisher in the background was a nice touch!). 😊

I'm going to keep driving my old Rover. It's manufacturing carbon footprint is 2 previous owners and 22 years in the past. It was made in this country and hasn't had to travel half way round the world to get here.

I think I’ll get my order in now for the last diesel Hilux to roll off the line. That’ll do me!!! Keep up the great work Geoff 👍👍

My gut feeling is that the car industry is in deep shit. I don't reckon we'll be driving by 2030...

Brilliant. Loved the subtle message with the fire extinguser in the background Haha (Clarkson tried to warn everyone. 'The Hamster' had a car burning a day later with a fireman in permanent attendance') !

Unfortunately, more than half the people watching your or his videos won’t know what a Dutch Oven is, or why calling that burning box of EV, by that name is so flipping hilarious. I am Dutch descent, so I should take offense, but I keep chuckling every time I think of that. He is spot on, so are you.

John’s channel is brilliant, whatever he says you can take it to the bank, John uses facts and physics which you can’t argue with. Fellow Aussie 🇦🇺

If in 2030 you decide to purchase a new car & the ev is a better product that is what you will buy, the best product doesn't have to be forced on you. They didn't have to ban cassette tapes when cd's arrived

Funny I haven’t seen anything about the burning ship on the BBC.

To me the media being very quiet about the ship fire to me is a big brother cartel of silence,They are not reporting this main news story because they have been told not to ,They gave more air time on a singers death than this story ( No disrespect to that person )

When I started my electrical engineering course at a tech college in 1972 the first thing the lecturer demonstrated was to short out a 12volt car battery with a length on 10mm cable - the cable instantly melted and the PVC insulation burst into flames. Don't try this at home.

My husband is a police officer, he is horrified that they have not been trained or provided a protocol on what they should do if they need to attend an EV fire! So he is telling all of his staff to stand down, not to attend and just keep the public away - they will be leaving it to the fire dept until they are fully trained - it is not worth the life of him or his men!

Well said Geoff...just to add...THEY (The Hierarchy Exploiting You) won't discuss the excess deaths so their definitely not going to about the EV scandal...!!!

It would be interesting to see if there is a correlation between people duped by covid and people duped into buying an electric car.

Like the way you parked next to a fire extinguisher Geoff . Nice one, can't be too careful!

The message about just how much damage these EVs can cause and the disadvantages just isn't getting out there, I recently told someone I'd not seen for a while that I'd got a new car, straight away he asked is it electric? I asked where have you been living under a stone? He looked at me with a blank expression.

Spot on as usual Geoff. At this stage, I think that the people who haven't realised that they've been duped, are never going to 🙄 Have a great break, dude!

Imagine if it was a car ferry full of all the EVs they want us all to drive. For example the Newcastle to Amsterdam ferry.

Your comment about 'Fully Charged' made me go and check and sure enough there was a thumb nail on their latest video showing the burning ship, so I watched a bit of it and very quickly they claimed the ship had 25 EV's and they clearly claim it's conspiracy theorists that are saying it's an EV that caught fire, they kept saying it's not confirmed. They also tagged on the Greece fires saying the same conspiracy theorists say they were arson. I'd love nothing more that a Geoff vs Fully Charged debate, that would be the best TV ever! Enjoy your break Geoff :)

"Get out your car, get on the bus". Recently watched some scary clips of buses burning. One in Paris, went up so quickly, with such intensity, it was horrifying! Meanwhile, more clips in China, bus companies going bust because they've had to take 80% of their fleet off the road and pay to store them. Reason given "The batteries are out of warranty" and they can't afford to replace them. 100s and hundreds of electric buses just sitting there.

Great video Jeff , definitely one for sharing,and yes we have beeen hoodwinked, gaslighted, blatantly lied to Continually groomed,and fed on a diet of fear and compromising for the planet,im sick to the back teeth,of it all.

John Cadogan is an auto engineer and well-respected journalist. . Hes probably the authoritative source for auto news in this country.

Just wait and see what happens when one of these car carriers catches fire in port and the smoke poisons a whole city .

may be buy one for November 5th to get the bonfire started.

John Cadogan's monologue on effing evs is actually a blank-verse poem that will sit alongside the works of Henry Lawson and Banjo Patterson in the Australian literary canon.

Had a EV for 3 years and charge most of the range off home solar - best thing we ever did. Got another EV coming in November ☀️⚡️👍🏻

I watched Johns video yesterday , hit the nail on the head. Not that i have and desire to go to France but if i did it certainly wouldnt be on the Chunnel. A fire mid channel would be a literal hell....!!!! Hopefully this is the start of enlightenment in all this EV madness.

I'm surprised that I haven't seen any mention of this ship fire on Australian TV news.

Governments around the world should start considering to phase out the EV.

Love the fire extinguisher in the background

Over 60 years ago I worked for a shipping company on exports and a manifest was produced for each ship prior to sailing. This itemised everything that was on the vessel as cargo.

Imagine if the ship fire was a car ferry with a thousand passengers on board. Catastrophic

It's only a matter of time before this happens to a hotel underground carpark or a car ferry or the channel tunnel... IT WILL HAPPEN.. the real question is whether authorities will have the guts to be pro-active and do what is needed to prevent this inevitable outcome, or wait and pick up the pieces.. i think we all know the likely path they will take.... 😡😡

I previously worked as a Tesla "Brand Ambassador" delivering new cars and showing the owners the functions before signing them over. As a long time car enthusiast who has worked in the trade in different capacities and driven many, many cars, I have this to say. Teslas assembled in Holland were badly put together with massive panel gaps and unfastened bolts and nuts. Charging was a nightmare as I had to often travel in the opposite direction to get charged and spend time in places I'd rather not have; like supermarket car parks or motorway services. Teslas have in my opinion two good things. Vivid acceleration, (but who needs to get from 0 to 60 in 5 secs?) and good storage space. They are wooden to drive and the centre control touch screen is a massive distraction, much more so than a mobile phone. The interiors feel and looks plastic. If you run out of juice or get a flat you have to be trailored away. I see some smart Americans are ditching the batteries and motors and replacing them with V8s

Oops. Looks like the fire on the Fremantle Highway was NOT caused by an EV. Yes, let me repeat this for Geoff's benefit because facts seem to fly past him, NOT CAUSED BY AN EV. It also seems that all EV's onboard remain intact. So Geoff, would you like to respond to this devastating news from the salvors of the ship?

Fire companys will have to use a special fire proof plow type vehicle to clear the cars around a burning ev. Imagine parking lot or city blocks lined with ev's. It will look like that ping pong ball mousetrap demo for a nuclear reaction😮

Just think of a channel tunnel EV fire. That could have serious ramifications if it were to close a tunnel for a long time (which it would) I have emailed them with my concerns as we travel over in our motorhome (after turning off the gas) ((a person checks this by asking you to light the hob!!))

I saw Aussie johns video last night regarding this ev fire I was quite horrified and very mindful of not parking near a ev

I am in Australia and when I see someone driving an ev I see an Idiot

You only have to look at california policy to encourage EV take up, then the owners were told last year that they had to restrict when they could charge because of electricity shortages.

Oh, dear Geoff, Pity you didn't wait before mouthing off After the fire on the car cargo ship off the Dutch coast, the media hastily identified an electric car as the cause. Now it turns out - that this is not true. Even though the cause of the fire is still unknown, the EV theory no longer holds up after the freighter was inspected. The lower four of the twelve decks are essentially undamaged, and about 1,000 cars, including the 498 electric ones, are in good condition. This is according to the chief of salvage company Royal Boskalis Westminster NV, Peter Berdowski. According to the head of the salvage company, the four uppermost decks, on which there were no electric cars, are so damaged that it is hard to walk on them and that the vehicles there (again, no EVs!) are literally fused to the ground. The affected carmakers are now investigating how their vehicles can be moved. The ‘Fremantle Highway’ is currently docked in Eemshaven in the Netherlands. Soon, the heavy fuel oil will be pumped out of the ship to prevent leakage and environmental pollution. The ‘Fremantle Highway’ can remain in the port until 14 October. Then it will have to be towed to another location - whether for repair or scrapping is not yet known. thedriven.io

I watch allJohn Cadogen Auto Expert AU videos. Of Last 3/4 years. I too read all the contents. This is the turning point. We hate the depreciation insane charging if driving 300 odd mile each wayloop. And incendiary risk safety. Car house home ….. Will lithium batteries go , pause on leccy cars, get another safer batt tech ??? ; and go again in another half or full decade ?????? We must PAUSE

I have an EV....love it..buy one...I know change is difficult for you all..I think it's the exhaust fumes affecting your noggins

Why is no one telling us who’s funding Just Stop Oil???

A year ago I bought a second hand electric car. The first month I had big problems with range, but then I started bringing a portable diesel generator with me on a trailer always. This solution works perfectly. If I'm out fishing, for example, I let the generator charge the car battery the entire time I'm down at the lake, and then when I get back to the car with my fish, I have enough battery power to be able to drive home without problems. Very practical!

Never heard so much BS and scare mongering in my life in these comments! Some of these comments are hilarious! Seriously I’ve owned an EV for over 3 years and over 70k miles with zero issues, I’m also a firefighter and call complete BS on this so called epidemic of EVs bursting into flames 😆😆

Yeah. The batteries are like the space shuttle boosters: you're going into orbit once lit!

I have a Mercedes E280 sport edition 2008 and A Harley FAt Boy S 2016 run on petro;l as God Intended it.

was about to post link to Johns vid. The most interesting part is the Cobolt poisoning...truly scary!!

I call for an immediate ban on ICEs on all ferrys and garages as they are clearly deathtraps that burn all the time! Also insurance premiums for ICE will rise for sure now!

Exactly any the worry is as more get adopted how many are charged outside, Because you can already see houses burnt down due to EV fires in garages let alone in unit complex which most have underground parking which is a disaster waiting to happen with tower collapse due to structural failure. But John also brought up the point you need to know when the fire stairs/exits are in an emergency just like the aeroplane.

If this was an oil tanker burning in the ocean, the green lot would be all over this, but its not so they aren't.

Remember that fire in the Liverpool carpark that took out about 1000 cars a few years ago ? It was Petrol that caused it .

Last time I checked the BBC weren't covering the Fremantle Highway story.

Always listen to John Cadogan , the man is brilliant and tells it like it is !!!

Madness can't carry on forever' but i was worried for a bit' running the world on windmills sunshine and batteries is absolutely crazy 😂😂😂

OPERATION WIPEOUT

A hybrid is not an EV. Almost empty batteries do not burn. EV transportation will never be made with full batteries. The fires of EVs are extremely rare. The panic is made to entertain the masses. Let everybody drive what they like.

In comparison - there were a total of 55 reported explosions in the offshore oil and gas industry in the United States from 2007 to 2020

Hey Geoff I keep getting EV ads on your channel 😂😅 Sort it son ⚠️

Electric car owners issued dire warning by motorway services boss - 'It's a major problem' in Yahoo headlines

I think "A ship burning to the ground" is the best English expression!

I wouldn't mind so much if i could afford to go out and spend £30k+ on a new EV with all the warranties etc but in the future I'll be one of the many people relying on the "very used" market of 10+ plus year old EV's that are well past their warranties and are basically in the "drive and re-charge at your own risk" category, I'm not looking forward to it all..

Well done, Geoff. I think you've been quite instrumental in raising awareness here. I have arranged for a Tesla power bank at home (for energy security) and I'd already arranged to have it installed in an old pigsty, some 12 metres from the house - for this very reason! As ever, the insurers will drive this through the market.

Hi Gregg, just to update you on the Fremantle fire, i would appreciate this being pinned. Whilst I agree with ev's being hard to put out, the salvage company have now reported finding all 498 ev's on the lower 4 decks intact as deck 5 was empty and the fire did not spread. Source is Peter Berdowski, CEO of its parent company to the salvage Boskalis

Parking garages are now charging more $$$ to owners of EV to park in the facilities...

These people are like those people in the time when the first car was made, but they were so angry at technology that they wanted to continue riding horses and donkeys, where they tried in every way to stop the evolution of transportation. Funny people 😄

Geoff, we've had Lithium ion batteries for years in drills/screwdrivers, phones, cameras, laptops, torches, vapes, drones etc. Many (if not all) made in China. How safe are these? All charged in the home. If i buy one, usually off Amazon it is posted to me but if i try and post one at the local post office i am not allowed, double standards here. Maybe the subject for a future video? Enjoy your break.

In the RC world, we have been advising sand for runaway lithium-ion ("Li-Po", LFP pouch cells, Etc, battery fires... (basically it just limits thermal / flame-front spread - the fire still burns under the sand but less stuff in the vicinity follows suit. - catching fire) )

There's no such thing as safe when you have a fire that can produce it's own reagents while burning, and ignites at relatively low temperatures. And then you wrap all that in a thick metal box that can't be easily accessed by firefighters. But to strap 400kg of that fuel on an extremely fast vehicle that is controlled by impulsive monkeys, that's some cartoon level insanity. We've made such huge progress with gasoline efficiency and safety, only to throw it all away for a pipe dream.

I hear you mate. Enjoy your break but dont give up the fight.

What about the shipping of these aftermarket batteries?

Electric vehicles belong in the same group as carbon fiber submarines

As an Engineer, the other Elephant in the room is the vast NUMBER of individual cells which make up a typical car battery. Every single one of those cells is a reason for it to go wrong at some point. They use so many cells to obtain the (lethal) high voltage DC supply....Fuck that....🤔😳😳😮😏🇬🇧

EV lockdowns incoming.

I would rather have an Austin Princess in chocolate Brown with an orange velour trim.

My Neighbour has just got rid of their battery-driven Tesla and explained the main issue is the range, and that really, it's only good for local runs.

Should you buy an EV? Depends upon if you’re willing to die in your sleep of toxic fumes as your muppet mobile burns you house down whilst you’re recharging… For me …. No thanks I’ll stick with my 10 year old diesel

So no EVs were damaged and didn't start the fire 500 Evs on lower deck are fine but I don't suppose there will be a rush of KZfaq videos unblaming EVs

No I will never buy an EV they are EVIL

Let's get some context here. This is of course a tragic event, but what Geoff doesn't mention is that Cars are dangerous. Feel free to do your own research, but each year more than 1,350,000 people die globally from road traffic crashes - so an awful event like this pales into insignificance in terms of likelihood of death and injury due to motor vehicles. Of course, exploration, refinement and transport of oil has its dangers too. In the UK alone there are over 35,000 fires of vehicles (not due to fires started deliberately). From what I've researched (AutoInsuranceEZ) the most at risk of catching fire are hybrids, then petrol/diesel, and the least likely are electric cars - by a significant amount. It is, of course true, that EV fires are far far more difficult to put out, and clearly much needs to be done to look at this. Enjoy your KZfaq break Geoff - I should probably do the same !!!

Ev’s destroying the planet. Horse and cart to make a come back.

Short answer is no. Safer batteries need to be developed... oh wait, there are NiMh versions which, although not as energy dense as Li-on ones, have never caught fire.

Not just Mercedes and VW - look at the problems GM and Rivian have been having in the US, and all those stockpiled EVs in China. The Chevy volt was also an early, loss making calamity, that had several fire issues, and just didn't sell well anyway.

very worrying situation( good content Geoff, ive emailed you ) another major concern if/when an ev takes fire on the forecourt of a petrol/ service station, it doesnt even bare thinkin about the catastrophic shitstorm that could/ would ensue

I drive an internal combustion vehicle and have no wish to buy an 'external combustion vehicle' powered by an explosive electric bomb.

Brilliant, FULL Video and commentary cheers Geoff

Head of the salvage company has reported that all of the EV’s on board are all fine and undamaged by the fire as they were are on a lower deck. So they are not to blame for this fire and the massive fire on a container ship in NY where 2 Firefighters sadly lost their lives was full of ICE vehicles but you ignored that one. I wonder why?

"F' the WEF !"

That Dutch Oven will sink first, and the lithium iron batteries will still be burning! 🤣😂