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johnik
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someone on youtube bought a tesla that had been in a flood, water got into the battery ($16,000 sounds familiar), he managed to repair it but he owns a tesla garage, Joe blogs wouldnt have much of a chance.
as for fires, all they need is to run over a sharp object and pierce the casing, even the fire brigade cant put the fire out, imagine that in an underground garage ?
as for fires, all they need is to run over a sharp object and pierce the casing, even the fire brigade cant put the fire out, imagine that in an underground garage ?
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Arr, but the national grid will cut the power for days while the system dries out and repairs to the grid are carried out.
So no charging points working, anyway who's going to be the brave soul who plugs it in first after being flooded...
So no charging points working, anyway who's going to be the brave soul who plugs it in first after being flooded...
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Many internal combustion engine cars are insurance write-offs after a flood as well. Insurers see too much risk of failure of the multiple modules hidden away at fairly low levels.
Or: buy a Jaguar i-Pace. I was told all JLR products have a design wading depth of 500mm, including XE/F/J except the i-Pace which is 'only' 300mm.
Or: buy a Jaguar i-Pace. I was told all JLR products have a design wading depth of 500mm, including XE/F/J except the i-Pace which is 'only' 300mm.
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So basically cill height?
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When a battery on one of these cars begins to fail, I can imagine some devious owners purposely flooding the vehicle for a claim.
As we progress with the mass role out of EVs , it will be 'interesting' what devious clauses the insurance companies insert in to policies T & C/ small print.
As we progress with the mass role out of EVs , it will be 'interesting' what devious clauses the insurance companies insert in to policies T & C/ small print.
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There's video of a Tesla bring driven out of a partly flooded tunnel. Surrounded by flooded Dino juice powered vehicles. They are reasonably robust in some circumstances.
This was in China.
This was in China.
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When we were in Spain a few years back, we were in a village having coffee when a Tesla convertible passed the square, smart girl in passenger seat with the obligatory scarf blowing in the breeze. My wife looked up & spotted a big black rain cloud coming over, so we went to shelter under the covered market area, looked across & the Tesla was sat there with the hood down. Next thing was a rainstorm of truly biblical proportions for about an hour, thunder lightning hail the lot! Tesla still sat there, hood down. When the rain passed over I went & looked at the car, about 2 inches deep in the footwell & the deep bucket seats were holding about 6 inches. I would have loved to been there when the couple returned. I have no knowledge what the couple were doing at the time to leave the car like this, but I can hazard a guess 
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If it was a convertible then that would have been the Tesla Roadster, which went for a cool quarter million dollars, so not good news for the owners!When we were in Spain a few years back, we were in a village having coffee when a Tesla convertible passed the square, smart girl in passenger seat with the obligatory scarf blowing in the breeze. My wife looked up & spotted a big black rain cloud coming over, so we went to shelter under the covered market area, looked across & the Tesla was sat there with the hood down. Next thing was a rainstorm of truly biblical proportions for about an hour, thunder lightning hail the lot! Tesla still sat there, hood down. When the rain passed over I went & looked at the car, about 2 inches deep in the footwell & the deep bucket seats were holding about 6 inches. I would have loved to been there when the couple returned. I have no knowledge what the couple were doing at the time to leave the car like this, but I can hazard a guess
Teslas do seem to have a reputation for hit-and-miss quality, though.
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It's not just the depth of water but can also be the bow wave set up by oncoming morons who insist on playing Donald Campbell. We lost a car due to this when the oncoming wave drowned our car with a loud " clunk" as a rod broke . We had come to a halt at the time . Car written off along with 1000's of others that day . Mid 2000's. Just don't deliberately enter water just because it 'doesn't look too deep'.
Reports now of houses burning down when an E-Bike has shorted and gone up.
The big nasties are that its usually an internal short that provides the ignition, then the resulting fire is a chemical one so you cannot extinguish it by starving it of air... cos it doesn't NEED air. Also the fumes are highly toxic.
So - you cannot put out the fire, and you can be killed by the fumes before the flames burn your house down anyway.
How long before Insurance Co's cotton on and exclude fires from any kind of EV / Lithium Battery from your Policy Cover?
The highest risk of a battery shorting (when there's no load i.e. parked-up) are under charging. So, putting your e-bike or EV on charge overnight while you sleep upstairs.....
The big nasties are that its usually an internal short that provides the ignition, then the resulting fire is a chemical one so you cannot extinguish it by starving it of air... cos it doesn't NEED air. Also the fumes are highly toxic.
So - you cannot put out the fire, and you can be killed by the fumes before the flames burn your house down anyway.
How long before Insurance Co's cotton on and exclude fires from any kind of EV / Lithium Battery from your Policy Cover?
The highest risk of a battery shorting (when there's no load i.e. parked-up) are under charging. So, putting your e-bike or EV on charge overnight while you sleep upstairs.....
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when i used to do late night callouts and the road was flooded i got out took socks and shoes off and went paddling anything above lower sill height no chance and go round only ever did it once and got away without engine damage in a fiesta van. the air intake goes down over and sucks it up
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When the batteries fails cars stolen to order will hit an all time high
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Pssst, want to buy a battery mate? Yours for only £10K. say no more
