Good question, I could see the possibility of passing the buck and a s**t show for the homeowner.
House flooded then Tesla burns it to the ground.
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Or the South Shore of Long Island!
Would it claim auto or home owner insurance? I always wonder about the same thing in California if earthquake cause a gas leak then a house fire.
Like Island Park, Bay Park, East Rockaway, to name a few. You won't see one within 50' of this house.
Throw in Freeport, Long Beach, Seaford, Massapequa, Amityville, Babylon too I grew up in the Seaford area which is right in the middle.Like Island Park, Bay Park, East Rockaway, to name a few. You won't see one within 50' of this house.
Superstorm Sandy had water 2 feet deep on the SECOND floor of a close family members 3 level home in Massapequa but over the decades MANY floods on the first level enough to ruin and flood the interiors of cars in the streets, Cant begin to imagine if there were EVs back then.
The coming decade will be interesting but wont know the real impact as we still only have less than 2% of EVs on US roads, I think we need at least 10% which would be almost 30 million on the road to know the real impact. I dont think it will be pretty but I do expect technology to somehow address this problem, if it's even possible?
Side note, look at the disaster in the entire area of the border areas of SC, NC, TN and GA right now. Can you imagine having to rely on an EV right now? There is no power there but slowly coming back. My son's house, in a community with underground utilities still has no power 6 or 7 days after the storm (I lost track) and he has to go to work everyday now. SO what I am saying, the real results of the EV experience will not be known till we get closer to 30,40,50 million EVs on the road. Not the current 2.5 million.
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Absolutely! I was picking places close to here that got hit really bad during Sandy. I had a good customer in the Yacht Club in Island Park who lost three cars and had fish swimming in his living room. I had painted his place a month before, and about 18 months after once he settled with insurance and got things "semi" sorted out. Funny thing is there are about a half dozen or more Teslas in that development that I've seen parked in driveways. That's an area that can easily flood again.
and it will
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Article says only a couple of inches of water and they had the Tesla elevated so how would water get in the battery? Bet it was driven in flood water then parked in the garage.
Tesla has these sorts of issues and is part of why I chose not to buy one. Every hurricane, we see tons of Tesla burning videos. I have not seen any of this with other EV's. I drive an EV6 GT, and have not seen a single EV6 or EV9 do this. If you have a link of one doing it, be my guest to educate me. If not, I maintain this is a low quality EV problem and not something people who buy well engineered EV's need to worry about in particular. Basically the same thing I tell people who buy cheap scopes: Of COURSE it didn't hold zero. Buy a quality product and you won't have these issues. We don't use Pintos bursting into flames to say that all cars explode when rear ended, so why are we using Tesla burning to knock EV's, is my point?
They did if it wasn't paid off.
Those garage doors won't keep flood water out and (here anyways) garages and house foundations that are less than 6ft above mean water levels require the doors that swing or blow out, letting water enter and exit so as not to build up pressure on the foundation walls.
The bigger the power reserve is as battery sizes get smaller means that the resulting failure will be all that more powerful when it fails. Nothing is fool proof. Unfortunately with EVs as much as I like them, they're containing all the power necessary to move the vehicle. With gasoline a further reaction happens to extract power. It would be like trying to keep a giant tank of compressed air to run a piston engine instead of relying on a spark and air/fuel mixture to create the force needed.
I don't know that making batteries more powerful makes them less reliable and more likely to fail, though when it does fail it will be a bigger reaction. Heck, they may get safer and less likely to fail, but that number won't ever be 0.
I guess State Farm can figure that out. They have all of my policies. I'll let their legal teams fight each other.
Yep. In business we say, "Gimmie one neck to choke."I guess State Farm can figure that out. They have all of my policies. I'll let their legal teams fight each other.
I have home and cars under Costco Connect.
“Impossible” usually means those will be famous last words…
It would be interesting to know how many flooded Teslas didn't catch fire versus those that did.
I'd bet a paycheck that the former would be some considerable multiple of the latter.
Also, if I had just lost my house and all of its contents including my most treasured possessions, an insurance claim on my car would be the least of my concerns, especially since any flooded car is essentially trash, EV or no.
I'd bet a paycheck that the former would be some considerable multiple of the latter.
Also, if I had just lost my house and all of its contents including my most treasured possessions, an insurance claim on my car would be the least of my concerns, especially since any flooded car is essentially trash, EV or no.
I wonder how many of these water logged wonders will be dried out and shipped out here to unsuspecting buyers?
Cars in general or EVs? I think that's happened every time there's a natural disaster. Clean them up, move them, and hopefully make some money off of the cars where no one thinks to ask about it. Dirty stuff.
This is an EV-bashing thread, come on ! It is the only one we've heard about though, huh ?