By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-27 16:37:59 | Updated at 2024-09-30 17:32:14
3 days ago
Gov. DeSantis warns electric vehicle owners to keep them dry from seawater
Florida Politics ^ | 9/25/24 | Florida Politics
Posted on 09/27/2024 9:05:19 AM PDT by DallasBiff
It's a fire hazard.
Gov. Ron DeSantis urged owners of electric vehicles in Florida on Wednesday to drive them to higher ground to avoid them being exposed to seawater as part of Hurricane Helene.
DeSantis said such vehicles can catch fire when seawater from storm surges inundates the battery packs, and those fires can be difficult for firefighters to extinguish.
“Just know that when you have saltwater intrusion in that, they can catch fire,” DeSantis said. He said there were instances during Hurricane Ian when a home survived the Category 5 hurricane, but the vehicle parked in the garage caught fire and burned down the house.
“Really big homes, but the EV caught fire and burned the house down,” the Governor said. He urged EV owners to drive them to higher ground.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ev; helene
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Was listening to Mike Gallagher this morning and he had a local Tampa radio reporter on, who said there is a report of an EV caught on fire due to saltwater surge and burned the house down.
Prayers for those who had to go through the storm.
1 posted on 09/27/2024 9:05:19 AM PDT by DallasBiff
To: DallasBiff
Who, in their right mind, would buy a used Tesla that was registered in Florida or Louisiana?
2 posted on 09/27/2024 9:06:59 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
To: DallasBiff
3 posted on 09/27/2024 9:07:22 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
To: DallasBiff
I wonder how many snowbirds have EV’s in Florida that are not parked on high ground.
4 posted on 09/27/2024 9:11:57 AM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
To: billorites
"Who, in their right mind, would buy a used Tesla that was registered in Florida or Louisiana?"
A good thing about this is that water makes it a quickly self-solving problem. They'll never get a chance to be re-sold.
To: billorites
Who in their right mind would buy one period?
6 posted on 09/27/2024 9:17:37 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (I "earned" the same number of delegates during the primaries in 2020 and 2024 as Harris.)
To: billorites
Didn’t a bunch of them catch fire when a big storm went through New England a while back?
I don’t think these cars are safe anywhere.
7 posted on 09/27/2024 9:20:24 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: DallasBiff
Democrat EV owners wouldn’t have known this. Why were they alerted?
8 posted on 09/27/2024 9:20:56 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
To: DallasBiff
“I have only one burning desire,
let me stand next to your fire”
9 posted on 09/27/2024 9:21:00 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (just remember the Harris algorithm runs at 3 am.)
To: DallasBiff
If it wasn’t for political pressure lithium batteries would never have been approved by OSHA.
10 posted on 09/27/2024 9:32:25 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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