Fire Shuts Down GM’s Electric Car Plant, Executives Blame ‘Battery Materials’ - The Great Awakening

Fire Shuts Down GM’s Electric Car Plant, Executives Blame ‘Battery Materials’ (www.breitbart.com)

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Fire Shuts Down GM's Electric Car Plant, Execs Blame 'Battery Materials'

GM's "Factory Zero" plant was shut down after a fire broke out. The plant produces Electric Vehicles, which have a history of catching fire.

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– Raritan 8 points 338 days ago +8 / -0

I worked for a startup company that was researching making hydrogen for fuel for cars. We had another startup company that made electric cars (metal hydride battery) come and bring one of their cars to a possible investors meeting. We had them come for a demo tour. The night before the meeting and tour - the car went on fire. The smell was horrible and we had to clean the whole place out. It turned out that any break in the circuits of the battery can cause a fire. Was a real lesson for me. I would never drive an electric car after that. Hydrogen fuel is okay.

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– HBalzanya69 0 points 338 days ago +1 / -1

Hydrogen fuel cell with capacitors (for high load events) would work pretty well. There are a few major advantages over battery EVs

Can use existing infrastructure (like removing 89 octane at gas stations because it's dumb and no one uses it and replacing that with hydrogen tanks)
The fact that fueling up doesn't take hours
You don't loose range over time (or at least nowhere near the way you do with batteries)
The form factor of the vehicle can be more easily shared with ICE platforms than battery EVs

It's funny because as this whole EV push is failing, Toyota (who is all about hybrids and hydrogen fuel because they make better sense) is laughing at the other car companies who are taking big loses on BEVs. Unless battery technology makes huge improvements (or all the worlds governments go crazy on regulations), BEVs are gonna crap out hard and fast.

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