Posted on 09/27/2023 8:42:17 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
It sounds like they are addressing the fire issue by installing a fuse that will actually blow when the circuit is shorted. But they are obviously not fixing the problem of leaking ABS module pumps.
I’ve been parking my Hyundai outside, because I’ve never finished up in the garage when I moved in here.
See? Procrastination pays off again!
Hyundais and Kias are the vehicles with the insta-theft vulnerability. Now they want everyone to park theirs outside!
Why not ask them to tie a nice ribbon around it too.
At what point would parking structures begin to prohibit specific vehicles based on conflagration risk?
I saw what you did there.
LOL
“But….but…only EV cars are a fire risk. Everyone on FR constantly tells me.”
Yeah, the same people who resisted indoor plumbing back in the day. I mostly blame leftists, though, for trying to force electric cars on everyone. The technology is coming along and in 5-10 years will be more desirable providing there are enough charging stations and we “drill baby drill” to keep electric costs down.
Obviously a car that runs on flammable gasoline can also pose a fire risk. They've just been around for so long that most designs already mitigate that risk much better than EV cars do.
One would think that opens them up to another liability. What if, because it’s parked outside, the vehicle gets stolen or hit?
“Sorento isn’t spelled with two r’s.”
The town in Italy is though, so spellcheck probably alerts on the proper name of the car but not if you put two r’s.
I’ve been to Sorrento.
Nice place.
At least it was decades ago.
That said both the author of the article and his/her/its editor should have caught the goof.
Unattached garages made of inflammable materials is going to become popular!
“At what point would parking structures begin to prohibit specific vehicles based on conflagration risk?”
When their insurance companies say so.
Just to be clear, I have nothing against EVs...if people want to buy them and pay for them, and manufacturers want to make them, I have no problem (as long as they aren’t parking them in my garage...:)
I think for some people, who don’t drive long distances, only put ten or twenty miles on their car a day, etc. then have at it.
But this insanity, driving us to the edge of the cliff, with mandates, subsidies, etc. with the ostensible “emergency” of “climate change” without having energy generations facilities, transmission infrastructure to handle it, charging stations available, and 500 mile range in a battery, well, I am dead set against it all.
But if you put your Kia or Hyundai outside someone will steal it with a $6 USB cable. That’s shy all the “teen” car theft posses drive Hyundais and Kias.
It has been known for years that H/K engines are only good for about 75,000 miles before self-destructing. While I am sure that they are resolving the engineering/manufacturing issues that lead to that reputation, it would seem that there are other things that are showing up as well.
I would never pay for any H/K vehicle and should I win one or be gifted with one, I would park it about 20 yards east of my home ... at lease until I could sell it.
Don’t take everything so seriously.
Was just being funny.
No need to get a car with a Lithium battery - gasoline cars now being manufactured in self-igniting models.
I, too, am for open markets, but I am also for holding the EV makers responsible for their pollution.
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