Nodge68
Member Since: 15 Jul 2020
Location: Newquay
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Lightwater wrote:We installed 3 phase to the garage in 2016 for, to be honest, possible car charging in the future (now next vehicle will most likely be a wheelchair). It was a small part of an electrical upgrade of our block of units. $500 for 25 metre run from the meter. Obviously still got the Freelander... it will be very hard to replace when the day comes!
Anyway. There seems to be more insurance issues of EVs when they are housed within main building structure.
Not only that, there are more issues with all lithium "vehicles". We are looking at warnings signs in our block of units that any lithium charging has to be supervised while charging, as per advice.
It's probably a bit of "covering your bum" stuff, another one of those things at the very least we feel needs to be taken onboard.
It did all seem to be far simpler decades ago.
Sounds like the building administration are spending too much time believing social media and not the facts. In reality, an ICE vehicle is something like 100 X more likely to catch fire than a BEV.
There have been loads of in depth studies, including one of the Australian fire developments. They've all come to the conclusion that a BEV is many times less likely to catch fire, than an equivalent ICE vehicle.
Ask yourself, how often has your laptop or smartphone spontaneously burst into flames? Going by the misinformation, they all should, because the batteries are basically the same as a BEV.
The issue with EV fires is they can be difficult to put out, but this is primarily confined to NMC battery packs, where the electrolyte is basically alcohol.
This issue will eventually become less of a problem once better battery chemistries come along, there's already cars with LFP batteries, which don't burn, they just vent the non combustible electrolyte away. Hyundai Ioniq 5 Ultimate. The replacement for the SE.
2009 Rimini Red SE TD4. Gone.
2006 Tonga Green i6 HSE. Gone.
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