Random EV thoughts.....

He made a very good point about that in the video regarding passive cooling

Basically Tesla kinda get away with ignoring the conventional current limits on their conductors by having temperature sensors at strategic locations (in the plug and car, among others)

But if there's now an adapter seperating the plug from the car and you can't sense the temperature of it, then you'll either need to seriously beef up the conductors or derate the charging

So I could see an Apple like scenario where if you don't have a Tesla certified adapter (and they figure out a way of detecting it) then you could have your charging automatically limited to 50kW or something

I don't know how it'll play out, there should be enough space in the adapter for a PCB with a controller and temperature sensor which can talk to the charger, if manufacturers are bothered installing one

Ha, was just about to post that

So I'm sure we can look forward to an apology from The Sun and the other gutter press throughout the world for spreading misinformation 😏

Like all these types of news articles, the truth is buried in the nuance of how they’re written.

firstly, they didn’t technically spread misinformation - if you read the early articles after the fire broke out from any reputable source, you’ll find lines like this one from euronews (I’m only picking euronews cause it’s a melting pot of all EU news network sources) “According to initial information from the Coast Guard immediately after the fire started, an e-car may have been the starting point.”

and secondly, this initial salvage report doesn’t actually say an EV didn’t start the fire - it says that the lower 4 decks of cars are still intact, and that the lower 4 decks includes up to 500 EVs.

So it seems to be correct that the theory that an EV started the fire doesn’t hold up, but to be very clear - that’s not actually what this salvage report says, or doesn’t say.

the sasatimes and some EV sites have simply done what the other news networks did at the start of this, and deduced it for themselves.

I agree with you both btw, I’d really like to see the salvage report get the same amount of column inches as the initial fire did, but unfortunately that’s not how news cycle work.

Spotted that on RTE, looked a bit like an Audi or maybe Hyundai saloon from the shell of the car

Didn't look at all like any EV that I know of

And yeah, people are idiots 😕

It’s scary how many people are sure it’s an EV and spreading so much hate.

its also scary how many people soak it up,

really show you how people are brainwashed. There the same folk falling for the anti vaccines, xenophobia etc

It was the same malarkey back in the 80s when cars were fitted with LPG, oh if you're in a crash it'll burst into flames etc.. nothing about the rusted tin box of a petrol tank that you were carrying your fiver of petrol in.

If there was ever evidence that could refute the theory of natural selection then the comments section of The Journal would be it

Honestly I think the reason all the comments are so short is because the morons who tried to write long winded responses suffocated because they forgot to breathe

Of course I wonder how much if it is just bots posting shite, although they tend to be better spoken than the average idiot 😂

The Panamera looks a fair bit like a Taycan to be fair

I suspect there's some confusion over what defines an EV. There could be 500 BEVs onboard but there's no mention of PHEVs or Hybrids

Whether these would be considered an EV is somewhat open to interpretation, if we're in a Toyota ad then they're magic EVs that don't need to be refueled, whereas many people here would probably say they aren't an EV

Anyway, there is the possibility that there were several hybrids around the ship which were included in the original 500 EV estimate and may (or may not) have contributed to the fire

Absolutely agree 100% that any cars at the epicenter of the fire are nothing more than a pile of slag at this point

I'm more concerned about how the number of EVs on board seems to change every 5 mins, and I think the different interpretations of what an EV is is probably not helping this

This could cause some..."robust debate" at a charging station.

It's in China, so it won't bother the local ESB hub. It takes up to 150kW with 1 or 230kW with both.

Are they GBT connectors though? A modified CHAdeMO.

European solution of 800V CCS can do that speed with the one cable.

Why China is banning Teslas.

China’s been doing that for over two years after they introduced automobile data protection measures introduced in 2021. They know what their cars are capable of.

Chinese have good form of their own, especially with regard to mobile phones. Same reason why Huawei has been banned in many western countries.