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      10-09-2024, 06:27 PM   #9395
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I'm sure they're taking all the precautions.
I have family in Tampa. Multiple properties. They've all left. Furniture lifted as high in the house as possible, shutters, electricity off, and other typical preparations.

Thankfully for them, it looks like the eye is hitting south of Tampa, which means the winds will push the water out of the bay, and the flooding shouldn't be too bad for them. Not the case for folks south of the eye though, that storm surge is going to end up somewhere.
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      10-09-2024, 08:05 PM   #9396
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As far as peer-reviewed... start with Patrick Michaels, yeah, you'll research him on the internet and come back with the "misinformation" internet attack meme. Great, but I've read his books.
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But the mere fact that you bring up Patrick Michaels as your source speaks volumes about how "well rounded" your "self-education" is. :
Like clockwork, right on cue.
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      10-09-2024, 08:09 PM   #9397
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Nope. But I understand the science. The real science, not the made up stuff.
Lol... okay.
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Trying to sift through this thread. My 2008 e91 (N52 with 6AT) has 347,261 miles. The wagon has been great with clean Blackstone oil reports, but beginning to look for something newer. Perhaps a PHEV?

I live in an area with temperature extremes, +100 during the summer and freezing mornings during the winter. I don’t drive in bumper to bumper traffic and annual mileage exceeds lease limitations. Did I mention I hate the tablet screens in the new BMWs? Pretty much talked myself out of an EV and will consider a preowned vehicle.
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      10-09-2024, 08:54 PM   #9399
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I'm not here to read this entire thread to find out about your "education". But the mere fact that you bring up Patrick Michaels as your source speaks volumes about how "well rounded" your "self-education" is. I applaud you for reading something, that's great. But maybe branch out from a dude who was paid for by the oil and coal industry to spin up bullshit.

Regardless, I'm done with the climate topic. Let's talk about ev fires again and again.
Lol. Always the same retort. Lol.

And you left out Big Tobacco.
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Ok all you guys with connections to Florida in one way or another Milton has been downgraded to Cat 1 after it hit the coast at Cat 4 losing force as it continued.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ker-tampa.html
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Trying to sift through this thread. My 2008 e91 (N52 with 6AT) has 347,261 miles. The wagon has been great with clean Blackstone oil reports, but beginning to look for something newer. Perhaps a PHEV?
Plug in hybrids seem to be catching on much more that full EV's which have long term lithium battery life and fire risk at the forefront on more and more peoples minds.
PHEV's with a very small (and much safer) lithium battery to take you without engine for around 35 miles, and a seperate normal battery for engine running. The only thing I see here is if you should get critically low on gas then switch to your hopefully fully charged electric to get you by to find a gas station.
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According to data from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), electric vehicles (EVs) are less likely to catch fire than gasoline-powered or hybrid vehicles:
Vehicle type

Fires per 100,000 vehicles sold
Electric vehicle
25

Gasoline-powered vehicle
1,530

Hybrid vehicle
3,475

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/enviro...less-fire-risk
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According to data from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), electric vehicles (EVs) are less likely to catch fire than gasoline-powered or hybrid vehicles:
Vehicle type

Fires per 100,000 vehicles sold
Electric vehicle
25

Gasoline-powered vehicle
1,530

Hybrid vehicle
3,475

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/enviro...less-fire-risk
Oh my days... that's because there are far more (millions upon millions) gas and diesel vehicles on the road than EV's. You of all people should know that
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Oh my days... that's because there are far more (millions upon millions) gas and diesel vehicles on the road than EV's. You of all people should know that
The number is per 100k cars sold.

I do think that an older vehicle is more likely to catch fire than a newer one and the average age of an EV on the road is far far lower than the average age of a gas car.
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According to data from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), electric vehicles (EVs) are less likely to catch fire than gasoline-powered or hybrid vehicles:
Vehicle type

Fires per 100,000 vehicles sold
Electric vehicle
25

Gasoline-powered vehicle
1,530

Hybrid vehicle
3,475

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/enviro...less-fire-risk
From October 2007 thru December 2021 I spent a lot of time and miles driving in Fairfax County. I can't recall seeing even one vehicle fire ever.
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Oh my days... that's because there are far more (millions upon millions) gas and diesel vehicles on the road than EV's. You of all people should know that
For posterity.
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From October 2007 thru December 2021 I spent a lot of time and miles driving in Fairfax County. I can't recall seeing even one vehicle fire ever.
I've seen multiple with my own eyes...and the evidence of many others.
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Fires per 100,000 vehicles. Not fires overall.
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I've seen multiple with my own eyes...and the evidence of many others.
There’s no point. They’ve already decided their conclusion. Now must make the facts fit however they can.

How could a thing that holds 20+ gallons of COMBUSTABLE gasoline and pumps it through a bunch of tubes then ignites it on FIRE over and over again… ever catch on fire?? Doesn’t make any sense.
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There’s no point. They’ve already decided their conclusion. Now must make the facts fit however they can.

How could a thing that holds 20+ gallons of COMBUSTABLE gasoline and pumps it through a bunch of tubes then ignites it on FIRE over and over again… ever catch on fire?? Doesn’t make any sense.
Because its been engineered not to catch on fire, just as much as EV are engineered not to catch on fire either, regardless of fuel type. But through circumstances both drivetrains rarely do catch on fire.

The combustion "fire" is a tiny amount of gasoline contained in a controlled environment called a combustion cylinder, surrounded by non-combustable alloys. Belive the science.
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I've seen multiple with my own eyes...and the evidence of many others.
Population of Alaska... 733,538 (2022)

Population of Fairfax County... 1,138,000 (2022)

Seems like a maintenance issue? The fires, I mean.
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Because its been engineered not to catch on fire, just as much as EV are engineered not to catch on fire either, regardless of fuel type. But through circumstances both drivetrains rarely do catch on fire.

The combustion "fire" is a tiny amount of gasoline contained in a controlled environment called a combustion cylinder, surrounded by non-combustable alloys. Belive the science.
You have already admitted your knowledge stopped in the 40s; please move along.
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You have already admitted your knowledge stopped in the 40s; please move along.
You easily get triggered by the truth, especially on topics you think you understand but really don't.
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You easily get triggered by the truth, especially on topics you think you understand but really don't.
https://www.keloland.com/news/local-...n-sioux-falls/
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Looks like a Ford 500. Last built in 2007, so 17 years or older. The 500 was known to have an engine mount prone to fail and allow the engine to move around too much. Perhaps the 17+ year old fuel lines ruptured when the engine mount failed, causing the fire. So, a lack of maintenance issue, rather than an intrinic fuel instability issue.

Believe the science.
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