30ashopper
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Electric Car Catches Fire, Again - Connecticut News Story - WFSB Hartford
A big nail in the coffin of GM's new wonder vehicle. Who on earth would buy one of these after reading reports like his?
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Chevy Volts are burnin' down the house
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Electric Car Catches Fire, Again - Connecticut News Story - WFSB Hartford
A big nail in the coffin of GM's new wonder vehicle. Who on earth would buy one of these after reading reports like his?
LuciferSam
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How do you know the house isn't burning down the Chevy volts? The first time they had another vehicle, a converted Suzuki, plugged in as well. The second time supposedly the Volt wasn't plugged in. They may just be drawing too many amps for their electrical system. It's still sketchy at this point.
scooterbug44
SoWal Expert
Why was the car parked in the garage if it had just caused a fire? Isn't that rather dumb? Anything electrical that starts on fire in my world is destined for the repair shop or the dump ASAP.
LuciferSam
Banned
He doesn't think the car caused the fire, and I think the second time it was a different Chevy Volt because the first one was destroyed. This whole thing is so sketchy. I don't think anybody is getting good accurate information.
[update] It seems the charred remains of the volt may have ignited while in the charred remains of the garage. I'd have to agree that if you have a damaged piece of electrical equipment with batteries that also contains a backup gasoline engine, it needs to be removed ground zero.
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LuciferSam
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Of course GM is going to investigate. Does that reinforce the premature conclusion you arrived at? Thae fact that it happened again in the same spot with a different vehicle to the same person does not persuade me to think that the car is the cause, but I'll consider the possibility. A sensationalistic and presumptive headline from a UK tabloid doesn't mean much to me.
30ashopper
SoWal Insider
Unless something like this is proven unequivocally false, people will be wary of buying cars like this. That was the point of my original post. If you want to try and defend GM's engineering prowess in building something like this, go for it.
AFAIC, these cars hold an immense amount of energy in batteries that are knows to fail in cataclysmic ways. It's new technology. Until it's proven safer than what I hop into on a daily basis, IMHO there's no need to rush in.
AFAIC, these cars hold an immense amount of energy in batteries that are knows to fail in cataclysmic ways. It's new technology. Until it's proven safer than what I hop into on a daily basis, IMHO there's no need to rush in.
LuciferSam
Banned
It's intellectually dishonest to draw any firm conclusions until more facts are out. As for your thread title, that's simply dishonest. I can't speak one way or another about their engineering prowess because I simply don't know, unlike some people who pretend to. You'll have to give more details about how these batteries are knows [sic] to fail.
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sunspotbaby
SoWal Insider
Have ya'll heard the commercials warning that the value of large cars/suv's are going way down because the price of gas is so high? Get that gas guzzler traded in NOW before it's too late! Maybe the high gas prices are a means to get new car sales up. 