How Bad was Hurricane Helene for EV Owners?

You can’t see a GLARING PROBLEM, with a PROBLEM that CONTINUES TOO BURN, while being FULLY SUBMERGED UNDER WATER!!!

Product, not problem

Wow imagine that, you have a EV and no electricity and solar panels blown away, your system destroyed and... what, Do you really think the hurricane respects your need for transportation or anything else no matter what it runs off of? Did y'all not see the same things I saw with cars and trucks, big an small, makes and models of all kinds floating in the water? I don't think anyone was offering them up to the hurricane god by choice.

Salty sea water and e.v what a great
Cobination

Gas and diesel cars wont spontanious combust under seawater like evs. They just simply wont run.

Wait a minute, aren't people required to buy an ev in China? So that ev market growth isn't natural but it's forced.

What is the current status of the Tesla Superchargers along I-75 in Northern Florida during these mandatory evacuations leading up to Hurricane Milton? People definitely have difficulties filling up their gas tank when hundreds of thousands of people are evacuating before a major hurricane, but how is that comparing to the EV experience right now?

would an old style electric car like the Baker Electric catch fire like these ones do ?

Rnd 2: Milton. Let's see what is in store for the Tampa and Central FL Tesla dealers and owners...cat 4-5 is no joke, along with a max 12' storm surge......

That’s any water. Anytime, when charging, when not charging, when key is not on, when driving, they catch fire any time…

You think your troubles end when your home is flooded, then you EV catches fire and burns it to ground. May be a silver lining if you did not have flood insurance

Yeah everyone should get an electric car so that everyone can be at risk.


Its hilarious watching fanboys trynna redeem the deathtraps that are teslas.

Mayhe learn to drive. Then get a real car.

I just towed a 6k lb trailer across Georgia in my Sierra EV. Stopped and helped some family in the area by providing electricity from my truck to get the freezer cold. Carried on to central Florida, dropped the trailer, bought a generator and some supplies, and made my way back to leave it with them.

They had an hours-long wait for gas but my truck could charge at the Ford dealership even during the power outage (I assume the chargers have a different line to the power plant). And contrary to what they expected, I got 300 miles range while towing, and about 470 miles without the trailer. When I charged up in Brunswick and Warner Robbins, it charged faster than the time it took me to go inside for the bathroom and snack.

A lot of people are figuring out the FUD they believed about EVs isn’t true.

My dads bosses son has a cybertruck and it got hit by a tree and you couldn’t even tell

So basically … what you do not seem to address directly is that until “better” technology arrives - if you have an EV now … it basically has an unstable battery that can spontaneously blow up and/or catch on fire especially if overheated or exposed to salt water. Good to know.

Hurricanes create upside commercial opportunity for the Lithium supply chain controlled by 1 Country.

Salt water submersion ruins every car.

I know a lot of people in Florida and a few that own EVs, but NONE of them use it as their ONLY/MAIN car, its always a secondary car,
everyone in florida has a SHTF car (often lifted trucks/SUVs because of flooding and large fuel tank for long range)
if you live in a hurricane/wildfire zone you need to be ready to leave with all your stuff (potentially in a trailer your towing depending on how much stuff you want to save), and you need to be able to go hundreds of miles without stopping while everyone is trying to flee at the same time,
I've seen people literally pull guns on each other in gas stations during evacuations to get ahead in line so they get fuel before the gas stations run out (its not like the police aren't busy),
i couldn't imagine what a charging station would be like with dozens of cars queuing in that situation, each 30+ minutes at a time,
not to mention that after hurricanes there's often no power for days/weeks after,

I thought, I was supposed to buy an overpriced EV, so I could power my house in up to three days, if a thing like this occurred. They literally marked EVs for that ability, but then they warn people about having the EVs anywhere near their homes, when things like this happen, because they are an added hazard! Do we live in Clown New World Order? No range anxiety with my old diesel burning car, and if I lost power in my home, I could go to any department store in my vicinity and buy a gas powered and reliable generator for a few hundred bucks, and that will run as long as I put gasoline (or diesel) on it. The EV idiocy is just obvious anywhere. By the way, EVs are not green anyway, but absolutely greenwash: It takes a half time more energy to build an EV on the same platform as an ICE car on the same platform, according to Volvo and no car in this world will ever consume as much energy in a lifecycle, as it cost to build. That is just a fact. If you want to do something for the environment, buy an old car and maintain it!

Pretty sure that car bubble thing uses and air compressor that must be continually running, probably won't work in a hurricane when the power goes out. Otherwise good information though.

Welcome back Ben!

Don’t want to be a wise ass here but water intrusion also destroys ICE cars.

The lesson i took away from this is we need the battery tech change that wont have have thermal runaway.
Its coming, and i want to convert my 1992 f250 camper and have a solar panel trailer.

Great inside Ben!, EV and home batteries can help us to run for days in power outages situations

Moisture sensors inside the battery pack would warn of water ingress.

Tesla sales plumeted as fast as a billionairs tesla water plunge.

Ted Kaczynski was right.

Okay, so use your cars for the evacuation, don’t leave them behind!

ev's 🤣

Jet lag? How do you get jet lag by traveling in an EV? No firm believer in EV technology would ever get in a plane powered by fossil fuels.

Don't hold your breath waiting for solid state battery EVs. Toyota is in the lead and predicting mass production in the 2030s. Based on past predictions, better assume it will be more like 2040 until you can buy one.

EVs are the only thing that catches fire in a flood - and this has happened several times after recent events. Not only that, but they're useless for safely evacuating if there's no electricity to charge and when is the last time you saw any power repair truck running on electricity?

Everyone knows, electricity, electronics and water don't interact very well.

If a Tesla is in water barely over the running board it can catch fire whereas if the car is under water half way up the door it won't because the heat is dissipated by the amount of water. So yeah, in this case a splash is more dangerous than a flood. The simplest solution would be a waterproof box for the batteries but then that would cost more.

Retired electrical engineer here. The EV companies, don't want to spend money on, properly insulating the vital components on their cars. Most of the money is, spent on attorneys and advertising.

Media is sensationalistic but to suggest they are focusing only on damage due to EV's is ludicrous. They are covering significant damage anywhere regardless of cause. The bubble rap is ridiculous as well. Too impractical to be widely used, and comparing tossing a fiberglass ladder to a hurricane whipping shards of twisted metal is asinine. You lost me at that point. No less biased for EVs as Scotty Kilmer is against them. Lol.

Just wanted to add my anecdote. I'm in WNC during Helene. I drove my 2012 Chevy Volt out of a flash flood. The water was up to my headlights. It got me and my wife home safely. It then went on to power my home for 4 days. Keeping the refrigerator, deep freezer, induction cooktop, lights and devices charged. It used 1 full charge and just over 3 gallons of gas. The high voltage battery pack sprung a coolant leak 2 days after the power was restored. It was truly a life saver, in more than one way. I have no way of knowing if this was a coincidence or caused it. I also am using a water pump from our above ground pool for the last two weeks, running it through an RO for drinking. I just replaced the Volt with an Ioniq 5, partially because it has V2L, and I hope if it ever comes to it it can save us just like the Volt did.

If my math is right the odds of a gas car is still higher even in these conditions than an EV. Everything I'm seeing is still around .03% vs 1.53%.

In the bahamas recently hurricane dorine damage alot of cars it was alot of nissan leaf was under salt eater for like 4 days not one caucht fire my house now is running now on a battery pack that was under water and its 5 years later

also the unfortunate part is that gas engines also have produced toxins in the water and other stuff

I am surprised that you didn't mention the opposite. Not only how well an ev can do in floods but how the ev can provide power to a home that has non. My ev would have powered my frig and multiple other devices but I did not lose power in Milton or Helene. Or the story of the rivian r1t that not only survived a flood in Ashville but was clean inside and ran as if nothing happened after floating away in the flood. Conversely, I have a neighbor who's house burned down from charging ev. Not sure the full circumstanses but there was no flood or anything else unusual. I have smoke detectors inside the garage for out i3 and I charge my rivian outside. With proper knowledge and preparation, there really is no more danger than any other vehicle.

"Kudos to Gov DeSantis." Ive never heard this before.

Don't worry, kamala has drained FEMA account to fly in and bus in illegals.
\But never fret Sleepy Joe has sent electric chainsaws to Florida.
Thanks Joe, Thanks camela

Seems to be a mostly Tesla issue.

You make your houses out of wood,you drive electric cars,then expect the insurance company to cough up 0n 60,000 dollar cars,pushing Ieveryone's
Premium up,the companies that make this trash should be made to provide insurance on them,tablets on wheels

Salt water is bad for any car. Everything will rust and corrode.

Great work Ben. Now you need to debunk many conspiracy theories that the Tesla’s head is spewing too. Thanks.

As EV sales increase you can expect increasing effort to generate disinformation by the fossil fuel interests.

What about the Rust Belt where they salt the roads those electric vehicles are subject to the same salt water that makes cars rust