Till his retirement, Rick Sikes managed the fleet of vehicles and vehicles working within the metropolis of Santa Monica, CA, a municipality typically recognized for its progressive stance with respect to environmental stewardship. He labored onerous to combine alternative-fueled autos of every kind: electrical, sure, but additionally an fascinating array of hydrogen, pure gasoline, even propane.
I interviewed Rick as the idea for a chapter of my first ebook, “Renewable Vitality–Info and Fantasies,” for example of what forward-thinking cities are able to in the case of phasing out petroleum. I performed the discuss on a strolling tour of his facility, which options large tanks of several types of gas, throughout which I requested, jokingly, “Am I in any hazard right here this afternoon?”
Taking me significantly, Rick replied that gas-powered autos are way more prone to catch hearth than EVs and the remainder. In reality, there are such a lot of of them every day that almost all of them don’t even make the native information.
Right here we’re 15 years later, and now we’re beginning see the propaganda that falsely claims that EVs are extraordinarily prone to burst into flames, an assertion refuted on this latest article in AutoBlog.
