“Why Did Our Parked Electric Car Explode?”
A mother said her family was “lucky to have got out safely” after their parked electric car exploded and engulfed their house in flames. BBC News has more.
Georgina Bayliss from Spratton, Northamptonshire, said their Mercedes EQA had been parked outside their house for several hours before the explosion.
She said her younger son had seen flames around the front of the house and thought the rest of the family and their five dogs were still inside.
Mercedes-Benz U.K. said it was carrying out an investigation.
Mrs Bayliss’s husband Scott, 47, explained how his eldest son, James, 17, raised the alarm at 9:15pm after he heard a loud bang and thought it was fireworks.
“The pace and ferocity at which the fire took hold and engulfed the entire car and pretty much the entire front of our house was scary beyond belief,” he said. …
Mr. Bayliss said: “This is a pretty calamitous car failure, in my view, of a prestigious brand and our concern is this could happen again and people could ultimately lose their lives.”
Firefighters arrived and told the family they had been minutes away from losing their home.
The family said the car was only two years old and had not shown any sign of a fault.
It was parked on the drive at 11:30am on the day of the explosion three weeks ago and had not been on charge.
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BEV = UXB.
Much of the technology being touted to deliver Net-Zero has been petulantly demanded by politicians to deliver their mad eco policies. Much of this technology has not been properly and fully tested on a trial basis but these eco politicians cannot wait for such niceties as market testing and feasibility studies they have a mad net-zero dream (nightmare?) and like a petulant screaming child are stamping their feet and screaming that this technology must deliver their agenda or else.
Given time and resources I expect technology can, in the future, deliver new transport, heating and energy solutions for society. However, to demand that it delivers it now to the time scale dictated by mad eco-politicians means we will get the ‘or else and it will not be pretty or pleasant.
It’s worse than that- the mad politicians know all about the risks, same as we do, but they go ahead anyway.
There will be a reckoning one day, and millibands head will finish on a spike.
Look up all our Energy ministers degree qualifications, and you will find most will have studied the Arts and Humanities, with many degrees in PPE or some sort of History.
Says it all, really.
politicians and civil servants are maters of circling their wagons. They will have us on spikes before themselves. . That aside what I cannot understand is knowing that these explosions/ fires are happening with an increasing regularity is it not a real hazard allowing electric vehicles on car ferries and the Channel Tunnel carriers?
Yes extremely dangerous
“…this technology has not been properly and fully tested..”
Dang. This rings a bell. Not Net Zero, something else.
Now, what could it be…?
Because it’s an electric car.
A shame actually.
Spratton has one of the best Guy Fawkes displays in the country.
Why couldn’t they have waited?
Lesson of the day for these people: Virtue-signalling can be dangerous.
Lets add in Hydrogen fuel.
Should be good for bonfire night
That garage looks like it’s part of the house. Good job the car wasn’t inside at the time.
Sounds like Korea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNo9PJP9Qa8
In the “More on this story” below the BBC article is a link to “Electric cars: Lords urge action on ‘misinformation’ in press” in which:
Yeah, how many 2 year old prestige brand petrol cars explode?
It could have been worse; it could have been parked in the garage.
But I was told that electric cars were ‘safe’ and ‘effective’ just like the ‘miracle’ vaccines.
It’s terrible!
Think of the Carbon footprint if the house had burnt down! 🙂
You building insurance will go up if you own an electric car. EVs are the Betamax of the automotive industry. Avoid.
But Betamax was actually superior technology that wasn’t marketed as well as VHS The inverse is true of EV’s.
Commercial property insurers are already refusing to accept liability for fires caused by the charging of electric vehicles. I think they will soon apply this to domestic premises too.
Who needs Guy Fawkes fireworks now we have electric cars? Burning at 2,000 degrees and belching poisonous gases – much better than an old-fashioned bonfire.
Thermal runaway. Violent, very toxic gases, explosions, extremely high temperatures, extremely difficult to extinguish, can reignite when and where you least expect it.
Don’t kill your family and neighbours, stop virtue signalling and vote Reform.