markb110 wrote:

I know it’s not quite comparable but looking at the Ford Lightning in the US there was a good example of someone towing a load from one side of the country to another. They had to stop every 100 miles to recharge. Can you imagine driving from Cornwall to Scotland with the added aggravation of disconnecting and parking up the caravan so you can get in the queue to recharge and hope that you don’t get a fine for out staying the time limit.

I see that as a positive. At least you have somewhere to wait to make a brew. We have just had an electric vehicle charging station opened in Norwich near me and it looks like a retail lesson in how to extract money out of punters waiting for their EV's to charge

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How often do they occur?

Although these fires do present a real danger, fortunately for us they remain very rare.

Data obtained by Air Quality News through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request revealed that in 2019 the London Fire Brigade dealt with just 54 electric vehicle fires compared to 1,898 petrol and diesel fires.

Similarly, so far in 2020, the fire services have dealt with 1,021 petrol and diesel fires and just 27 electric vehicle fires.

Rashers wrote:

markb110 wrote:

I know it’s not quite comparable but looking at the Ford Lightning in the US there was a good example of someone towing a load from one side of the country to another. They had to stop every 100 miles to recharge. Can you imagine driving from Cornwall to Scotland with the added aggravation of disconnecting and parking up the caravan so you can get in the queue to recharge and hope that you don’t get a fine for out staying the time limit.

I see that as a positive. At least you have somewhere to wait to make a brew. We have just had an electric vehicle charging station opened in Norwich near me and it looks like a retail lesson in how to extract money out of punters waiting for their EV's to charge

This made me smile recently. A couple of Sundays ago it was our anniversary so we had booked to go to a pub for lunch.

I pulled into our local shell garage to fill up the wife’s Velar and whilst doing so looked across at the guy sitting in his EV reading his book whilst it was charging. I then walked into pay, and as I got back into the car to leave he was still sitting there reading his book. That’s his Sunday.

So this begs the question, is remote EV charging the new ‘the in-laws are coming over, I just need to walk the dog’ excuse for peace and quiet……

markb110 wrote:

A quick point when it comes to numbers as in the quote regarding fires.

They actually run courses (the wife has been on one that involved a number of high profile business’s) on how to manipulate and present figures for the purpose of the writer and not the individual reading it.

For example we are normal presented with percentages because on the whole that shows a higher number but does not say how many items where tested or people asked on a survey. A German shampoo advert a few years back had the presenter saying that more than 50% of people asked said they would recommend the product. In the small print the actual percentage was 51. So basically almost 50% of people would not recommend (or had no opinion or knowledge too recommend)

With the 2020 fire figures they have used numbers because if they used percentages as there were and are still more ICE vehicles than Electric on the road. Therefore EV fires would be a much higher percentage than ICE.

From a marketing perspective it looks better than saying ‘drive to work in a an EV…….but make sure that you have cash in case you need to take the bus home…..’

When I used to work with marketing people in the past they regarded a 2% take up as a success of the campaign they were running……it’s all how numbers are presented for the gain of the writer.