THE DEADLY LITHIUM
BATTERY POLITICAL PROFITEERING LIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
- Stanford Engineering Research
Key highlights from the report:
Lithium batteries: Explosive, deadly, home-burning, worker
poisoning, genocide-causing, child-labor-produced, fetus mutating
chemicals, give off cancer causing smoke when they burn, controlled
by China...and worse...
When you smell smoke in the cabin of your airplane or commute
bus, it was an exploding lithium ion battery that has just exposed
you to cancer causing, brain damaging, fetus mutating, liver cancer
causing chemicals in the air from that thermal event.
The Mine-To-Wheelbase cost of lithium batteries, as opposed to
NICAD and other batteries, is the most expensive in the world, of any
energy storage option, and gets more expensive every year. When you
include in the costs the: poisoned workers medical costs; the
replacement costs of the homes and offices destroyed by lithium ion
fires and explosions; the Congo genocides and child labor; the wars
to get those minerals from foreign nations that hate the U.S.; the
mitigation expenses from the toxins in the soil from dumping the
depleted batteries and other costs lithium ion batteries are
LITERALLY the worst option on Earth!
Fuel Cell electric
cars solve all of the problems of lithium ion electric cars but DNC
billionaires own the mines for lithium ion batteries, so they
sabotage and blockade fuel cell electric cars. As warned, there is
not enough lithium ion to solve America's electric car problem and
the whole lithium ion electric car industry has crashed as everyone
realizes that what they were warned about lithium ion is true.
Corrupt political families conspire to give government funds,
contracts, tax waivers, buildings, stock market profits and other
insider perks to themselves and their friends. They also conspire to
blockade, harm, sabotage and black-list those who compete with them
and their friends. These corrupt politicians are never prosecuted for
their crimes, and can laugh in the face of those who point out their
crimes, because they control the prosecution system. Their Quid Pro
Quo criminal corruption is the single largest cause of the taxpayer
hatred of Congress.
The Russian's left mining "Treasure Maps" behind in
Afghanistan. But; were those “Treasure Maps” a trick or a treat?
The maps claimed to show ten trillion dollars of electric car
minerals hidden in the Afghan desert... but was that all a lie?
To
this day, controversy exists across the intelligence communities, of
many nations, about whether, or not, those maps were a scam created
to “trick the American’s” or the actual locations of trillions
of dollars of mining deals that were “antibody's for the taking”.
The papers that the CIA geologists pulled out of that archival
library in Kabul, Afghanistan still read to be a bit too convenient
for what happened next.
Decades later, after an invasion or two, and vast expenditures of
cash, political capitol and lives, very little of the promised golden
mining treasure has materialized. What has materialized is epic
corruption, political payola, campaign secrets, deaths and
controversy.
Goldman Sachs, McKinsey Consulting and Deloitte helped a few rogue
CIA buddies distribute a huge number of white papers and press
releases which used the buzz words: “Trillions of dollars of
lithium in Afghanistan” and “Afghanistan is the Saudi Arabia of
Lithium”. Why would those particular companies put so much effort
into hyping a pile of dirt on the other side of the planet?The answer
lies in who they hyped it to and who took the bait. It turns out,
most of the money that flowed through this (probable) scam financed
the Obama campaign.
It also turns out that those who skimmed profits from this vast
flowing river of corruption sludge were Elon Musk, John Doerr, Eric
Schmidt, Steve Jurvetson and the very pack of investors who co-funded
the Obama campaign. They were also the very same people who,
exclusively, got the only cash from the Obama Administration. Mining
Oligarch Frank Guistra became notorious for his involvement in White
House matters.
They are also the very same people who had partnered with the
Russian mining companies who were standing by to go back into
Afghanistan to dig up this magical dirt-pile. Where “covert mining
deals” were never a big election deal, in 2016, thanks to some
monumental document leaks, they became one of the biggest deals in
U.S. history..and not in a good way.
Lithium ion batteries are blowing
up, starting fires and, generally, destroying people’s homes, cars,
electronics and physical health. Boeing was just ordered to stop
flying the 787 Dreamliner because it's Lithium ion batteries are
catching fire spontaneously.
A group of silicon valley venture
capitalists forced/leveraged the government to buy and pay for these
specific batteries, that they have stock in, in order to benefit
their profit margins. Other batteries don’t have these problems.
They knew about this from day one but put greed ahead of safety.
There are thousands and thousands of reports of spontaneous lithium
ion fires but the VC's who back lithium ion pay to keep this
information hushed up.
Millions of these batteries have
been recalled for fire risk. The VC's tried to push as many as they
could before they got caught. Now they are caught.
These links show vast sets of Fisker
electric cars that burst into flames just because they GOT WET:
http://updates.jalopnik.com/post/34669789863/more-than-a-dozen-fisker-karma-hybrids-caught-fire-and
http://green.autoblog.com/2012/08/12/fisker-flambe-second-karma-spontaneously-combusts-w-video/
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/11/05/how-sandy-may-have-set-17-plug-in-hybrids-on-fire/
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/fisker-karma-spontaneously-combusts/
http://cbdakota.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/fisker-karmas-catch-fire-following-inundation-by-sandy/
http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/12/fisker-karma-hyrbid-ev-second-fire/
http://www.techfever.net/2012/08/fisker-karma-hybrid-ev-ignites-while-parked/
http://evmc2.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/fisker-karma-fire-report/
http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/karma-burns-owners-mansion/
http://www.carbuzz.com/news/2012/11/1/Karmas-Ignite-After-Hurricane-Floods-Newark-Port-7711437/
There are vast sets of other links
proving the point.
Tesla Motors has filed a patent
which states the following , THESE ARE TESLA MOTORS WORDS warning
about a crisis, the level of which they never disclosed to the
consumer:
“Thermal runaway is of major
concern since a single incident can lead to significant property
damage and, in some circumstances, bodily harm or loss of life. When
a battery undergoes thermal runaway, it typically emits a large
quantity of smoke, jets of flaming liquid electrolyte, and sufficient
heat to lead to the combustion and destruction of materials in close
proximity to the cell. If the cell undergoing thermal runaway is
surrounded by one or more additional cells as is typical in a battery
pack, then a single thermal runaway event can quickly lead to the
thermal runaway of multiple cells which, in turn, can lead to much
more extensive collateral damage. Regardless of whether a single cell
or multiple cells are undergoing this phenomenon, if the initial fire
is not extinguished immediately, subsequent fires may be caused that
dramatically expand the degree of property damage. For example, the
thermal runaway of a battery within an unattended laptop will likely
result in not only the destruction of the laptop, but also at least
partial destruction of its surroundings, e.g., home, office, car,
laboratory, etc. If the laptop is on-board an aircraft, for example
within the cargo hold or a luggage compartment, the ensuing smoke and
fire may lead to an emergency landing or, under more dire conditions,
a crash landing. Similarly, the thermal runaway of one or more
batteries within the battery pack of a hybrid or electric vehicle may
destroy not only the car, but may lead to a car wreck if the car is
being driven or the destruction of its surroundings if the car is
parked.”
Tesla's own staff have now admitted
that once a lithium ion fire gets started in one of their cars, it is
almost impossible to extinguish burning lithium ion material. This is
Telsa’s own words in THEIR patent filing, (You can look it up
online) saying that the risk is monumental. Tesla has 6800 lithium
ion batteries, any one of which can “go thermal” and start a
chain reaction! If you look at all of the referenced YOUTUBE movies
you will see how easy it is to set these things into danger mode.
Imagine a car crash with a Tesla
where these 6800 batteries get slammed all over and then exposed to
rain, fire hose water, water on the roads, cooling system liquid..
OMG!! And then if, in that same accident the other car is a gasoline
car… getting burned alive sounds “BAD”! Telsa is covering up
the problems with its batteries.
LION batteries have already crashed
a UPS plane and killed people. Look here:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/dreamliner-fires-spark-new-doubts-about-a-green-energy-technology/article/2519353
Tesla and Fisker have only sold a
few hundred cars, (thank god) because nobody but dicks want these
overpriced eliteist toys. A regular car company sells hundreds of
thousands of cars per model. Every single Tesla or Fisker sold
increases the likelihood of a burn up. Those burn-ups will affect the
homes, cars and lives of the people next door who never even bought
one.
Go to http://www.youtube.com and
type into the search window:
“Lithium ion explosion” or
“lithium battery and water” or “lithium ion water” and any
related derivation and you will hundreds of videos about how
dangerous these batteries are.
This article in the LA Times sheds
more light of the horrors of Lithium Ion:
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/18/business/la-fi-dreamliner-battery-20130119
Lithium Ion batteries “go thermal”
in peoples pockets, in your notebook, especially in your Tesla and
Fisker car and everywhere else. There are thousands and thousands of
articles documenting this and there is a cover-up by the VC’s that
fund these things to keep this fact out-of-sight.
Making Lithium Ion batteries poisons
the workers who make them. It is a dangerous product. Each time the
workers, particularly in Asia, realize they are being poisoned by the
factory, they jack up the product.
In the report: The Afghanistan
Mining Scam Failure, G.I. Dough - The U.S. Spent a Half Billion on
Mining in Afghanistan With ‘Limited Progress’ - Megan McCloskey
reveals that
ProPublica is investigating how billions of U.S.
tax dollars have been spent on questionable or failed projects and
how those responsible for this waste are rarely held
accountable.
The Military Built Another
Multimillion-Dollar Building in Afghanistan That No One UsedThe
United States has spent nearly half a billion dollars and five years
developing Afghanistan’s oil,
gas and minerals industries —
and has little to show for it, a government watchdog reported today.
The project’s failings are the
result of poorly planned programs, inadequate infrastructure and a
challenging partnership with the Afghan government, the Special
Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction wrote in its newest
damning assessment of U.S. efforts in the war-torn country. The
finding comes after some 200 SIGAR reports have detailed inefficient,
unsuccessful or downright wasteful reconstruction projects. A recent
ProPublica analysis of the reports found that there has been at least
$17 billion in questionable spending.
We
Blew $17 Billion Hunting Electric Car Battery Minerals In
Afghanistan. How Would You Have Spent It?
Here’s just what the Special
Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction found. See for
yourself how that money could have been used at home. Explore the
app.The United States Agency for International Development and a
Pentagon task force were in charge of developing a so-called
“extractive” industry in Afghanistan — basically a system for
getting precious
resources out of the ground and to the
commercial market. SIGAR called out both USAID and the Defense
Department last year for their failures to coordinate and to
ascertain the ability of Afghans to sustain the project, which
unsurprisingly is not promising. In fact, when international aid
stopped supporting the Afghan office responsible for oversight of the
petroleum and natural gas industries, two- thirds of the staff were
fired.
Exploiting these resources, which
are estimated to be worth as much as $1 trillion, is pivotal to
Afghanistan’s economic future. SIGAR noted that the Afghan
government has shown progress under USAID’s tutelage in regulating
and developing the commercial export of the resources. But the report
said the project was still hampered by corruption, structural
problems and a lack of infrastructure for the mining industry, such
as reliable roads. Many of the mines operate illegally, with some
profit going to the insurgency, SIGAR said.
When it came to individual
extractive projects, there was little progress made, the IG found.
The controversial Pentagon task
force in charge of much of the effort, the Task Force for Business
Stability Operations, spent $215 million on 11 extractive programs,
but “after operating in Afghanistan for 5 years, TFBSO left with
nearly all of its extractive projects incomplete,” SIGAR found.
Three ofthe programs technically met objectives, but one of those is
of questionable value at best. The task force built a gas station for
an outrageously inflated cost and in the end it didn’t have any
customers.
So while the objective to create the
station was achieved, SIGAR doubted it was a worthwhile venture.
The task force, made up of mostly
civilian business experts and designed to develop the Afghan economy,
has come under fire from SIGAR and Congress for demanding unusual and
expensive
accommodations in the country, allegedly punishing a
whistleblower, and lacking overall accountability. The Senate is
holding a hearing on the task force. In today’s report, SIGAR
highlighted that the task force spent $46.5 million to try to
convince companies to agree to develop the resources, but not one
ended up signing a contract. About $122 million worth of task force
programs had mixed results, SIGAR said.
The Defense Department declined
SIGAR’s request to comment on its findings. In its response, USAID
said it has helped Afghanistan “enact investor-friendly extractive
legislation, improve the ability to market, negotiate and regulate
contracts, and generate geological data to identify areas of interest
to attract investors.” Any conclusions and criticisms, USAID told
SIGAR, “need to be substantially tempered by the reality that
mining is a long-term endeavor.”
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of our best work.Megan McCloskey
WHY
A WEBSITE COMPANY DESPERATELY WANTS TO PUSH ELECTRIC CARS! GOOGLE'S
AWFUL SECRET
Google's owners got an exclusive
kickback scam between themselves and the White House over lithium ion
batteries ravaged from war profiteering in Afghanistan, political
rigging in Bolivia and other war incursions. Google wants to push
electric cars to keep it's owners political payola scams alive and to
payola taxpayer cash to Obama/Biden political financiers.Deadly,
toxic, explosive, a risk to national security, fetus damaging...yet
Google charged full speed ahead into it..Obama administration to
announce efforts to boost self- driving cars
By David Shepardson
Reuters
DETROIT
(Reuters) - The Obama administration will announce efforts to boost
self-driving cars on Thursday, and President Barack Obama may discuss
advanced transportation efforts in his final State of the Union
Address on Tuesday, according to government officials. Mark Rosekind,
head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, told
reporters that
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will be in
Detroit to talk about efforts by the Obama administration to speed
the introduction of self-driving vehicles.
"This is huge because this is
the White House telling you that the secretary is going to be here to
amplify stuff that is coming out of the State of the Union, and it's
focused on self-driving cars,"
Rosekind told reporters in
Detroit.
There is not yet a clear legal
framework governing their presence on U.S. roads. Automakers and
technology companies such as Alphabet Inc's Google have called on
regulators to
clarify guidelines for introduction of autonomous
driving technology, in part out of concern that a mishap involving a
self-driving car could result in costly litigation.
A Google
spokesman said the company will take part in Thursday's announcement
by Foxx. Detroit automakers are also likely to participate.
In December, Rosekind said he
opposes a "patchwork" of state regulations on driverless
cars and promised a "nimble, flexible" approach to writing
new rules for self-driving vehicles.(Reporting by David Shepardson;
Editing by Bill Rigby and Dan Grebler)
Google Seeks Multiple Auto Partners for
Self-Driving Car Unit That Will Seek Taxpayer Cash
Dana Hull danahull
John Lippert
johnmlippert
- Company wants to begin announcing
some joint efforts this year
- Google vehicle chief John
Krafcik speaks at Detroit meeting
Google hopes to form
partnerships with many automakers and suppliers as it develops
self-driving cars to reduce traffic accidents and expand mobility for
elderly and disabled people, the head of its vehicle project said.
Google wants to spy on you inside
of, and around, it's cars.
The Alphabet Inc. company wants to
announce some of those joint efforts during 2016, John Krafcik, the
Google executive, said in Detroit at an Automotive News conference
Tuesday held in conjunction with North American International Auto
Show. Almost every automaker “has been in to speak with us, if only
to understand where we are,” Krafcik, said. “I don’t know how
many we’ll end up having.”
His comments counter speculation
that Google would pick a single automaker as its exclusive partner
for self-driving cars. Yahoo Autos reported last month that Ford
Motor Co. would announce a joint venture with Google on self-driving.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV and General Motors Co. have also said
they’re talking with Google about developing self-driving cars.
Google's owns mining interests related to these cars and gets
political perks from them.
Google Hires Former Obama Adviser Atkinson to
Lead Global Policy In order To Control Politics On Electric Cars And
Energy Mines
Jack Clark
- Caroline
Atkinson was deputy national security adviser
- Company faces
probes in Europe and U.S. as influence grows
Google has hired former White House
Deputy National Security Adviser Caroline Atkinson to lead its global
policy team as the Internet advertising giant seeks an advocate to
deal with regulators around the world.
Atkinson, 63, stepped down in
December from her post in U.S. President Barack Obama’s
administration as an emissary to the Group of 20 economies,
negotiating behind-the-scenes on
agreements of international
scope and significance. Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., currently
faces probes from both federal and European regulators into its
businesses, as the company’s increasing influence over areas like
mobile phones and Web search draws scrutiny. "Caroline’s an
internationally respected diplomat and adviser, and we’re delighted
to have such a
thoughtful leader heading our global policy
team," Google General Counsel Kent Walker said in a statement.
Atkinson also previously worked at
the National Security Council, the International Monetary Fund, the
Treasury Department, and investor consultancy Stonebridge
International. She was selected by the Obama administration in June
2013. Her job is to manipulate politics and oligarch interests in
spite of what the citizens wants, or need.
https://www.cnn.com › 2021
› 08 › 18 › business ›
afghanistan-lithium-rare-earths-mining › index.html
Aug
18, 2021Right now, minerals generate just $1 billion in Afghanistan
per year, according to Khan. He estimates that 30% to 40% has been
siphoned off by corruption, as well as by warlords and the
Taliban ...
https://www.independent.co.uk › asia
› south-asia ›
afghanistan-minerals-lithium-mining-taliban-b1905169.html
In
2010, a report by US military experts and geologists estimated that
Afghanistan was sitting on nearly $1 trillion ( £730 billion) in
mineral wealth. A huge amount of iron, copper, gold, cobalt ...
https://www.theguardian.com › commentisfree
› 2021 › aug › 30 › afghanistan-us-corruption-taliban
Aug
30, 2021An estimated $1tn worth of minerals lies buried under the
country's surface. Before the Taliban takeover, Afghan law
prohibited companies from buying minerals from small
unregistered mines. One ...
https://www.aljazeera.com › news
› 2021 › 8 › 24 ›
as-us-exits-afghanistan-china-eyes-1-trillion-in-minerals
Washington
has already frozen nearly $9.5 billion in Afghanistan's reserves and
the International Monetary Fund has cut off financing for
Afghanistan, including nearly $500 million that was...
https://www.brookings.edu › articles
›
chinese-investment-in-afghanistans-lithium-sector-a-long-shot-in-the-short-term
Aug
3, 2022August 3, 2022 12 min read Speculation is mounting that China
will take advantage of the power vacuum created by the 2021 U.S.
withdrawal from Afghanistan and seek dominance over that
country's...
https://www.latimes.com › world-nation
› story › 2022-11-03 ›
afghanistan-mining-minerals-economic-hope
Nov
3, 2022"Look there. See that black line?" he said. "That's
chromite." An explosion thumped in the distance. Massoud looked
up, but appeared unconcerned. "That's not fighting. We're
mining with the...
https://www.voanews.com › a
›
taliban-arrest-chinese-nationals-for-allegedly-smuggling-afghan-lithium-
› 6928878.html
Jan
22, 2023Afghanistan reportedly sits on an estimated $1 trillion
worth of rare earth minerals, including huge deposits of lithium,
but decades of war have prevented the development of Afghan mining
...
https://foreignpolicy.com › 2021
› 09 › 28 ›
afghanistan-china-rare-earth-minerals-latin-america-lithium
Argument
An expert's point of view on a current event. Afghanistan Is No
Treasure Trove for China The country's mineral wealth remains
largely theoretical.
https://foreignpolicy.com › 2023
› 04 › 24 ›
china-afghanistan-lithium-critical-minerals-taliban-energy-environment
Apr
24, 2023April 24, 2023, 3:57 PM. China, once again, seems to be
mucking about in Afghanistan's mineral-rich playground. The latest
move is a maybe, could-be deal worth billions to tap Afghanistan's
...
https://www.washingtonpost.com › world
› interactive › 2023 › ev-lithium-afghanistan-taliban-china
Jul
20, 2023Soon after, the Afghan government imposed what it
said was a temporary ban on private lithium sales while
negotiating with mining companies and crafting new laws to regulate
what had become a ...
The Future Of Corrupt Silicon Valley Cronyism May
Lie In The Mountains Of Afghanistan
Richard Byrne Reilly
Tags:
Andrew Chung, Apple, Donald R. Sadoway, editor's pick, Jay Jacobs,
Khosla Ventures, lithium, Lithium Exploration Group, lithium-ion
batteries, Michel Chossudovsky, Tesla, Tesla Motors, top-
stories
The future of Silicon Valley’s technological
prowess may well lie in the war-scarred mountains and salt flats of
Western Afghanistan. United States Geological Survey teams discovered
one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of lithium there six
years ago. The USGS was scouting the volatile country at the behest
of the U.S.
Department of Defense’s Task Force
for Business and Stability Operations. Lithium is a soft metal used
to make the lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries essential for
powering desktop computers, laptops, smartphones, and tablets. And
increasingly, electric cars like Tesla’s. The vast discovery could
very well propel Afghanistan — a war-ravaged land with a population
of 31
million largely uneducated Pashtuns and Tajiks, and whose
primary exports today are opium, hashish, and marijuana — into
becoming the world’s next “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” according
to an internal Pentagon memo cited by the New York Times.
The USGS survey report on
Afghanistan that detailed the findings also noted that, in addition
to lithium, the country also contains huge deposits of iron ore,
gold, cobalt, copper, and potash, among many other valuable minerals.
“The mineral wealth there is
astonishing,” said professor Michel Chossudovsky of the
Montreal-based Center for Research and Globalization, who has written
extensively on Afghanistan.
A conservative estimate of the
riches is $1 trillion. In some circles, it’s as high as $5
trillion.Above: A typical lithium “button” cell found in many
small electronics.
In Silicon Valley and beyond, tech
companies like Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Hewlett- Packard,
Samsung, Sony, and Tesla rely on continual, and uninterrupted, access
to lithium, as lithium-based batteries are the primary power storage
devices in their mobile hardware. Without these batteries, MacBooks,
iPads, iPhones, Kindles, Nooks, Galaxy IIIs, Chromebooks, and,
yes,
Tesla Model S cars would be largely worthless. If forced to use
older, nonlithium batteries, their battery lives would certainly be
much shorter.
The world’s current lithium
heavyweight is Bolivia, the biggest exporter of the element. There,
in theswamps and marshlands of the southern region of the country
near where the borders of Chile and Argentina meet, are the biggest
deposits.
Canada, China, Australia, and Serbia
also have varying amounts of lithium, but not as much as Bolivia. Or
apparently, Afghanistan. Enough to last a lifetime Depending on who
you talk to, the current lithium global reserves are adequate for at
least another generation of lithium-ion battery manufacturers to
produce them.
But not everybody thinks so, and
some say the light metal compound may someday run dry. That could in
turn spell trouble for any company whose business depends on light
and portable mobile electronics — unless someone comes up with an
alternative to lithium batteries before then.
The experts VentureBeat interviewed
pointed to sharp year-on-year increases in the demand for lithium.
That’s putting heavy pressure on existing stockpiles. According to
Lithium Americas, a Canadian lithium-mining company with significant
business interests in Argentina, lithium demand will more than double
in the next 10 years, while lithium prices
have nearly
quadrupled during the same timeframe.
Tesla, for its part, is in the
process of investing up to $5 billion to build its own lithium-ion
Gigafactory in Texas, a plant capable of churning out 500,000
expensive battery packs a year by 2020 for its line of zero-emission,
all-electric cars.Above: Tesla predicts that its “Gigafactory”
will produce more lithium batteries (by capacity) in 2020 than the
entire global production of such batteries in 2013.
A
Tesla spokeswoman did not return calls seeking comment. As a
potential source to feed that demand, enter Afghanistan. “At some
point, if present trends continue, demand [for lithium] will outstrip
the supply. And again, at some point, the market for lithium-ion
could get so big that it actually affects the supply chain,” said.
Donald R. Sadoway, a professor of
the Materials Chemistry Department of Materials Science and
Engineering at MIT.
Looking at Afghanistan, Sadoway says
the war-ravaged nation, which has no effective mining infrastructure
in place, may well be attractive to the world’s mining outfits. “In
this regard,” Sadoway, one of the world’s foremost experts on
energy sources, says, “the deposits in Afghanistan could be
important.”
Andrew Chung, a venture capitalist
with Khosla Ventures in Silicon Valley who has invested in multiple
startups producing alternative batteries, says lithium-ion batteries
are limited in their lifetime cycles, scalability, and cost. Despite
this, Chung says, he can understand how the untapped reserves of
Afghan lithium are now an increasing focus.
“It is an issue of the supply
chain, whether it’s Afghanistan or other [countries]. There is a
finite supply, and lithium-ion will continue to be the [power] choice
for the next decade,” Chung said.
Some of the Valley’s
biggest and most powerful tech companies either declined to comment
for this story or never returned calls. But they didn’t deny the
importance of lithium-ion batteries.
For instance, an Apple
spokesperson declined to comment for this story but provided
VentureBeat witha 2014 “Suppliers List” of the 200-plus vendors
it uses to produce its products. A related post made the Cupertino,
Calif.-based company’s commitment to lithium batteries clear, at
least in the short term. “Rechargeable, lithium-based technology
currently provides the best performance for your Apple notebook
computer, iPod, iPhone, or iPad,” the Apple post says.
Sony Energy Devices Corp. invented
the lithium-ion battery in 1994. It was hailed as a breakthrough,
providing longer battery life and without the “memory effect”
that gradually reduced the effective capacity of previous types of
batteries. Since then, companies have gradually refined lithium
battery technology but have not succeeded in moving beyond it.
Indeed, early Tesla cars are actually powered by large packs of
industry-standard lithium-ion battery cells — the same type of
cells found in many laptop batteries. And here is where it gets
interesting.
Sharply increasing demand
The custom battery pack Tesla uses
for its Tesla Model S. Inside are hundreds of lithium cells.
If
electric car manufacturers begin ramping up production of lithium-ion
battery-powered cars, the global demand for lithium will skyrocket.
This could potentially come about at the same time for increasing
demand for handheld consumer goods like tablets and laptops, Chung
said, thus creating a perfect storm.
“So you want to
start looking at other sources producing it with current supplies
being called into question, if we move more toward production of
electric cars,” Chung said. Which is why, increasingly, eyes are
turning to Afghanistan and its new purported lithium reserves, a
country long referred to as the “graveyard of empires.” The U.S.
invaded Afghanistan after the terror
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,
and according to iCasualties, 2,315 American servicemen and women
have been killed there.
Analyst Jay Jacobs of Global X Funds
in New York, which has interests in lithium mining, said demand for
the compound is growing, and that “there are two regions that have
been revealed to contain huge lithium reserves: Afghanistan and
Bolivia.”
William Tahil, a respected lithium
expert who lives in France and is the general director for Material
International Research, argues that lithium deposits in Bolivia will
at some point be depleted. Jacobs was sanguine about safely
extracting lithium from Afghanistan. He said political risks there
were considerable. “With that being said, should there be a
substantial and sustained increase in demand for lithium, lithium
miners may become increasingly interested in the country as it has an
abundance of the resource,” Jacobs said.
It was the Soviets who first
discovered the country’s deposits when they invaded in 1979. Soviet
geologists began mapping Afghanistan’s lithium, gold, and potash
fields but abandoned their efforts after the former communist
superpower pulled out of the country in 1989.
But with a weak and
corruption-plagued “central government,” Afghanistan is now ripe
for the picking, Chossudovsky said. Indeed, the country is still very
much divided into fiefdoms, with the Muslim fundamentalist Taliban,
warlords, and drug traffickers controlling large swaths of the
country — and using violence to advance their interests. “There’s
no question the mining companies will go in there. No question.
There’s no real functioning government there to reap the foreign
investment of the mineral deposits. This makes it all the more
enticing to the mining companies because nobody in the government of
[President] Hamid Karzai will be regulating the bonanza of lithium,
so they can do what they want,” he said.
Jockeying For Position
For its part, the U.S. government,
which helped locate the lithium deposits using flyovers with a
sensor-filled Lockheed P-3 Orion and teams of geologists fielding
soil samples, knows a potential gold rush when it sees one. And it
has no intention of being left on the sidelines. Especially since the
Chinese are now — and quickly — making deals with Afghan pols for
mineral rights to copper deposits.
The USGS did return multiple calls
seeking comment. Nor did the Pentagon. Despite what some say are the
shortcomings of lithium-ion batteries, venture capitalists and
investors
continue pouring money into them. Amprius, a lithium
battery maker based in Sunnyvale, Calif., snared a $30 million
infusion round of investor cash in January. Over at the Afghan
embassy in Washington, D.C., the Afghans are licking their lips at
the potential lithium and mineral windfall despite the country’s
continued conflict with a resurgent Taliban. What
this may
portend for the impoverished and war-torn nation is anybody’s
guess. But the Afghans are playing up the finds — or they were,
until recently.
“In recent years, headlines from
the Afghan mineral sector have competed to outdo each other in scale:
from the landmark $3 billion Chinese investment in the Aynak copper
concession to the astounding survey work of the U.S., Afghan, and
British Geological Services estimating anywhere between $1 trillion
and $3 trillion in mineral potential, to the historic $11 billion
deal now being finalized with an Indian consortium for the Hajigak
iron ore concession,” said a posting on the Afghani Washington DC
website.
Afghanistan’s ambassador to the
U.S., Eklil Hakimi, presided over a press conference at the Afghan
embassy in Washington, D.C., on March 10, where he talked about the
untapped deposits, along with reps from the USGS and other U.S.
politicians. But Hakimi, through a spokesman, told me he simply
didn’t have the time to talk.
Key exploiters of Lihium ion mines:
Apple, Goldman Sachs, Tesla Motors, Lithium Exploration Group, Khosla
Ventures
Scientists Discover That Lithium Ion
Batteries Grow More Explosive Over Time
Using lithium ion batteries in
cars, hover-boards and other “high tasking” systems FORCES them
to blow up more
Chemicals degrade into more
self-igniting states over time
Use in a system with electric
motors dramatically increases likelihood of explosions,
self-ignition and release of cancer-causing, brain damaging fumes
that can harm un-born infants
Exposure to electric fields, high
altitude radiation and water in air causes very much increased
danger parameters
Cover-up of safety issues charged
because many Senators and Energy Department executives own stocks in
Lithium Ion batteries
Public welfare at risk due to
political greed, per http://lithium-ion.weebly.com/
Combining the type of chemicals
that lithium ion batteries hold is like “making a blasting cap”
warn researchers
Lithium ion
batteries, when they burn, cause brain cancer, liver cancer and
other, potentially lethal, toxic poisoning. Certain regulators are
told to "ignore these issues" because certain lithium ion
investors donated cash to certain campaigns.
The chemicals
for lithium ion batteries come from countries which needed to be
invaded in order to monopolize the mining of those chemicals. Certain
politicians are told to "ignore these issues" because
certain lithium ion investors engaged in war profiteering in order to
control those minerals.
The FAA has issued numerous
warnings and videos showing that lithium ion batteries do
spontaneously self-ignite and crash airplanes. Numerous people have
been killed in lithium ion plane crashes. Certain regulators are told
to "ignore these issues" because certain lithium ion
investors donated cash to certain campaigns.
Lithium ion
batteries have self-ignited and set numerous children and senior
citizens on fire. They have set homes on fire. They have set offices
on fire. They have set Apple Stores on fire. You constantly hear
about passenger airlines being forced to land because passengers
"smell smoke in the cabin". This is almost always a lithium
ion battery going off in the cabin and exposing all of the passengers
to it's carcinogenic ignition vapors.
Silicon Valley
investors took over the lithium ion battery market, along with
Goldman Sachs, because they knew they were getting large government
hand-outs from the Department of Energy in exchange for campaign
contributions.
Lithium ion batteries lose their power and
memory over a relatively short time.
Lithium ion batteries
blow up when they get wet or bumped. Fisker Motors went out of
business when millions of dollars of Fisker cars, using lithium ion
batteries, got wet and all blew up.
Tesla battery packs
have blown up, on multiple occasions, from simply hitting bumps in
the road.
Manufacturing these kinds of batteries is so
toxic that even China, a country known for the most minimal
regulations, has closed a huge number of
battery factories
because of the massive numbers of deaths they caused to workers and
nearby residents.
Journalists have published a glut of
articles exposing cover-ups about the dangers and corruption involved
with lithium ion batteries. The U.S. Government and numerous groups
have filed charges against Panasonic, and similar battery companies
for bribery, corruption, dumping, price fixing and other unethical
tactics.
Every key investor in lithium ion was also a
campaign donor who also received huge federal cash from the
Department of Energy in the same funding cycle in which they paid
campaign contributions.
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EVEN MORE BATTERIES PACKED INTO THEM THAN THE 5000 BATTERIES TESTED
IN THE DEADLY FEDERAL VIDEO. TESLA'S AND FISKERS HAVE ALREADY CAUSED
TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN FIRE DAMAGES AND EXPLOSIONS.
-
MALAYSIAN AIRLINES FLIGHT MH370 KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN CARRYING HUGE LOAD
OF LITHIUM ION BATTERIES
- "LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES
WILL SELF-IGNITE" SAY FEDS!. THE FORCE OF "MULTIPLE
HAND-GRENADES"... AIRLINE PILOTS UNIONS DEMAND ACTION!
-
TESLA'S OWN PATENT FILINGS SAY THEIR BATTERIES ARE "SUBJECT TO
DEADLY EXPLOSIONS AND FIRES"! THAT IS WHY TESLA GAVE THEIR
PATENTS AWAY.
- FISKER LITHIUM ION ELECTRIC CARS SIMPLY
EXPLODED WHEN THEY GOT WET!
- NHTSA COVER-UP CHARGED.
STAFF SAY NHTSA HEAD, ERICK STRICKLAND, COVERED UP THE KNOWLEDGE TO
PROTECT OBAMA CAMPAIGN BACKERS WHO OWNED LITHIUM ION STOCK
SEE
THE SHOCKING VIDEO AT:
http://www.thenewsdaily.org/federal-govt-releases-video-report-proving-deadly-threat-lithium-ion-batteries-teslas-airliners-may-brought-flight-mh370-deadly-explosions/
Over
1000 Reason’s Why Lithium-ion Is a DEADLY, CRIMINAL, VERY BAD
THING!Why is such a
dangerous thing being promoted with your tax dollars while those same
tax dollars are being used to cover up these dangers? Let’s
discuss…
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will be an on ongoing project article. New additions will be added as
the team receive tips and data. Keep checking back. This article is
currently in draft form (Note: if you count all of the items below,
plus all of the items at the end of each link below, there are now
over 2000 reasons… but who’s counting):
Please print
this article out and send it every Senator, Congressman and Mayor and
ask them to tell you what they are doing about it!
ALSO
SEE THESE VERY BIG
INVESTIGATIONS:
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SEE
THE LATEST COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENTARY ON THE LITHIUM ION SCAM AT:
HTTP://WWW.RIPSHEETNEWS.COM
Did
Lithium ion blow the Malaysian Airlines flight out of the air?
Websearch: "Malaysian Airlines Lithium Ion" for
details...
Are
militants trying to hack Tesla's to make their battery packs
overcharge and blow up? Websearch "TSA Lithium Ion Warnings"
for details...
-
The Trillion dollar
+ Lithium-ion industry pays over a billion dollars a year to elected
officials,
appointed officials, their staff and lobbyists in order to get them
to cover up the facts listed here and to promote this dangerous
chemical for profit. Many of those have family stock in lithium-ion
companies, private sector job promises and PAC funding from
lithium-ion companies. Why won’t the people who are using
lithium-ion stop using it? Why is there almost no regulation of
deadly lithium-ion? The answer: KICKBACKS!
-
If you are exposed to burning lithium-ion from a burning car, iPAD,
phone, airplane,
FED-Ex
or UPS truck,
or other fire from lithium-ion batteries, the smoke and vapors that
you inhale are some of the most cancer-causing,
brain-damaging, lung damaging liver poisoning chemicals
you could be exposed to. SEE
HIS LINK and THIS
ONE and
THIS
ONE and THIS
ONE (More
coming)
- Lithium-ion batteries are made in “concentration
camp-like” fenced-in compounds where low income workers are exposed
to poison gas and powders
from the lithium-ion manufacturing process. A
dramatically large group of these workers die from the cancers and
toxic poisoning from these factories.
They have always been made in overseas, impoverished, regions because
there is little or no
occupational safety regulation there.
Tesla’s factory has been fined by OSHA for setting workers on fire.
This is a very deadly business. Now they are trying to build these
factories in the American southwest to try to exploit
Mexican workers like they do overseas.
Some argue that large “white man owned” corporations “fighting
for immigration rights” are really fighting to relax laws to allow
cheap labor into these kinds of camp-factories in the desert. Some of
the factory owners have even purchased multiple lots, in multiple
southern states, and told investors that they will “build
on the one where we can buy control of the most local
politicians”.
-
The makers of lithium ion batteries have issued a document called the
“MSDS”. It states known facts about the batteries. The MSDS warns
firefighters they can get cancer. It warns that the batteries are
toxic. It clearly states the very great dangers of spontaneous, or
easily caused fire from bumps or moisture. Why did Panasonic kill
it’s MSDS web links the day the first Tesla fires hit the news?
Look at the facts
HERE.
-
Lithium-ion batteries seem to have caused some wars. At THIS
LINK, you will
see hundreds of facts, films and links showing the direct connection
between lithium ion investors in Silicon Valley and wars for ore in
middle east countries.
- Silicon
Valley Lithium-ion investors signed deal with Russian “businessmen“
to create an international lithium ion cartel.
- Lithium
ion battery companies Enerdel, and A123, and others, went bankrupt,
after being funded with your tax dollars, from corruption, explosions
and spontaneous fires. Facts that were well known by the people that
funded them.
- Less compromised Senators have railed
against the dangers of lithium-ion has shown HERE
and HERE
-
IPAD Lithium-ion batteries have blown up setting entire stores on
fire.
- Samsung lithium-ion batteries in cell phones have
set a number of people, including many children, on fire.
-
Lithium-ion does not even work as well as other lower-cost, safer
energy solutions:
- The charge-keeping capability of a
typical lithium-ion battery degrades steadily over time and with use.
After only one or two years of use, the runtime of a laptop or cell
phone battery is reduced to the point where the user experience is
significantly impacted. For example, the runtime of a typical 4-hour
laptop battery drops to only about 2.5 hours after 3,000 hours of
use. By contrast, the latest fuel cells continue to deliver nearly
their original levels of runtime well past the 2,000 and 3,000 hour
marks and are still going strong at 5,000+ hours.
- The
electrical capacity of batteries has not kept up with the increasing
power consumption of electronic devices. Features such as W-LAN,
higher CPU speed, “always-on”, large and bright displays and many
others are important for the user but severely limited by today`s
battery life. Lithium ion batteries, and lithium-polymer batteries
have almost reached fundamental limits. A laptop playing a DVD today
has a runtime of just above one hour on one battery pack, which is
clearly not acceptable.
- Silicon Valley Lithium-ion
billionaires
try to exploit the lack of public awareness with disinformation
campaigns linking anti-lithium-ion to saying that you are
anti-environment. In fact: Lithium ion use and manufacturing is one
of the most toxic industries on the planet.
- Lithium-ion
battery companies have actually been charged with, and sued for
organized crime. HERE
IS AN EXAMPLE
-
AT&T ‘s U-verse TV service now had a exploding battery problem,
making it necessary for the firm to replace 17,000 backup batteries
in its nationwide network.
- Lithium-ion batteries might
have crashed the Malayasian airlines flight. SEE DETAILS HERE.
TESLA
SAFETY REPORT Vers. 1.05M- Public Wiki Produced for NHTSA other
governmental agencies and public transparency
Draft-
1.05M (Document under construction – not final)- First Final Draft
Due to NHTSA Due: 1/14/14.
(Note: The head of the NHTSA has now quit over this, let’s keep all
eyes on this make sure nothing is rigged) For Public Comment
and Review
Please
refer all agencies to this document link
at:
http://somo1.com/2013/12/06/tesla-safety-report-vers-1-05-public-wiki-produced-for-nhtsa-and-other-governmental-agencies/
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CONTENTS:
1.
Overview
2.
Known, Unresolved, Safety Issues.
3.
Safety tests that were never conducted and must now be conducted.
4.
How many fire incidents have there been.
5.
Contacts to follow-up on investigations
6.
Are Tesla drivers more likely to get in accidents than mainstream
drivers?
7.
Original participant conflicts-of-interest created reduced safety
oversight
Appendix
-
Lithium ion site
–
NHTSA Demand Letter
–
Additional data
–
Video Evidence
-
Questioning the validity of the German “Safety Report”
-
Demand for identification matrix showing campaign backers who were
lithium ion investors
who had had their
contacts exert influence over NHTSA decisions!
(Supplemental
material now numbers over 10,000 pages and will be submitted directly
to regulators in order to avoid congesting this site)
1.
Overview
Regulators
asked Tesla to detail the possible consequences of battery pack
damage to the Model S and how those problems were addressed in the
Model S design. NHTSA also asked Tesla to describe the “limits of
that design to prevent damage to the propulsion battery, stalling and
fires”. While electric cars have been in commercial production
since the 1800′s, and have been widely released by major automobile
manufacturers, only the Tesla vehicles have experienced the fire
issues, relative-to-inventory, in this magnitude. The questions and
data required by NHTSA, in the letter from NHTSA, contained below,
demands disclosure of certain Tesla information which will reveal
conflicts in previously provided Tesla data. Reporters and public
interest law firms will be using the FOIA process to disclose the
responses, required under federal law, in the public interest.
2.
Known, Unresolved,
Safety Issues.
-
Dense packing non-automotive lithium cells
- Self ignition from
exposure to air
- Self ignition from exposure to water
-
Burning lithium ion, plastics and human skin
- Inability to
extinguish lithium ion fires
- Failure to provide disclosures to
buyers
- Failure to provide required CO2 fire extinguishers to
buyers
- Toxic carcinogenic chemicals released in Tesla Fire-
Danger to passengers
- Toxic carcinogenic chemicals released in
Tesla Fire- Danger to bystanders
- Brain damage from toxic
chemicals released in Tesla Fire- Danger to passengers
- Brain
damage from toxic chemicals released in Tesla Fire- Danger to
bystanders
- Lung damage from toxic chemicals released in Tesla
Fire- Danger to passengers
- Lung damage from toxic chemicals
released in Tesla Fire- Danger to bystanders
- Birth defects
from toxic chemicals released in Tesla Fire- Danger to passengers
-
Birth defects from toxic chemicals released in Tesla Fire- Danger to
bystanders
- Home and office conflagration as warned in Tesla’s
own patents
- BMS (Battery Management System) programming, ie:
Vampire issues, etc.
- Danger to factory workers exposed to
internal materials in Tesla Lithium ion cells
- Electronic door
locks failing. Could passengers be locked inside car in fire?
-
Previous seat safety recall
- Miscellaneous owner complaints
about technical issues and relation to safety
Additional…
3.
Safety Tests That
Were Never Conducted and Must Now Be Conducted.
The
continued failure to engage in these tests, and/or provide the
results from these tests, continues to call into question the
efficacy and conflicts of interest of the original testing. The
batteries used by Tesla were never designed, or created, to be used
in automobiles and this short-cut to cost reduction must be mitigated
by the relative increase in safety reduction.
- Vehicle
with fully charged
batteries drives
into 3′, 4″, 5″, 6″, 7″ 8″ concrete curb at 5MPH, 15MPH,
20MPH, 25MPH, 30MPH, 35MPH, 40MPH, 45MPH, 50MPH, 55MPH, 60MPH, 65MPH,
70MPH, 75MPH and then is allowed to sit, post crash, for up to
3
hours to analyze spontaneous lithium ion combustion.
-
Vehicle with fully
charged batteries
drives into 3″, 4″, 5″, 6″, 7″ 8″ metal post embedded in
road at 5MPH, 15MPH, 20MPH, 25MPH, 30MPH, 35MPH, 40MPH, 45MPH, 50MPH,
55MPH, 60MPH, 65MPH, 70MPH, 75MPH and then is allowed to sit, post
crash, for up to 3 hours to analyze spontaneous lithium ion
combustion..
- Vehicle with fully
charged batteries
drives into 3″, 4″, 5″, 6″, 7″ 8″ concrete curb at 5MPH,
15MPH, 20MPH, 25MPH, 30MPH, 35MPH, 40MPH, 45MPH, 50MPH, 55MPH,
60MPH,
65MPH, 70MPH, 75MPH and then is allowed to sit, post crash, for up to
3
hours in simulated rain storm to analyze spontaneous lithium
ion combustion..
- Vehicle with fully
charged batteries
drives into 3″, 4″, 5″, 6″, 7″ 8″ concrete
curb at
5MPH, 15MPH, 20MPH, 25MPH, 30MPH, 35MPH, 40MPH, 45MPH, 50MPH, 55MPH,
60MPH, 65MPH, 70MPH, 75MPH and then is allowed to sit, post crash,
for up to 3 hours after complete immersion in water as in a hurricane
or high-water event to analyze spontaneous lithium ion
combustion..
- Rolling the vehicle with fully
charged batteries
in a 3 roll crash at 20MPH, 25MPH, 30MPH, 35MPH, 40MPH, 45MPH, 50MPH,
55MPH, 60MPH, 65MPH, 70MPH, 75MPH ending in the vehicle laying on
it’s roof and counting the number of lithium ion cells that came
loose from their mounts risking burning lithium falling on
passengers.
- Rolling the vehicle with fully
charged batteries
in a 3 roll crash at 20MPH, 25MPH, 30MPH, 35MPH, 40MPH, 45MPH, 50MPH,
55MPH, 60MPH, 65MPH, 70MPH, 75MPH ending in the vehicle laying on
it’s roof and counting the number of lithium ion cells that had
their housings damaged risking burning lithium falling on
passengers.
- Rolling the vehicle with fully
charged batteries
in a 3 roll crash at 20MPH, 25MPH, 30MPH, 35MPH, 40MPH, 45MPH, 50MPH,
55MPH, 60MPH, 65MPH, 70MPH, 75MPH ending in the vehicle laying on
it’s roof and simulating a full rain storm on the, now exposed,
underside of the vehicle for 2 hours to see if lithium ion ignites
when wet risking burning lithium falling on passenger and to analyze
spontaneous lithium ion combustion.
- Filling the battery
compartment, with fully
charged batteries, with
water, draining it and observing for 4 hours to analyze spontaneous
lithium ion combustion.
- Pouring 18 Oz. soft drinks into
the battery compartment, with fully
charged batteries,
and observing for 4 hours to analyze spontaneous lithium ion
combustion.
- Impacting the lower quarter panel of
Tesla with fully
charged batteries
on the side of the car, on each side, at the lower center of the
passenger door and two feet to either side at 20MPH, 25MPH, 30MPH,
35MPH, 40MPH, 45MPH, 50MPH, 55MPH, 60MPH, 65MPH, 70MPH, 75MPH at 3″,
4″, 5″, 6″, 7″ 8″ so as to penetrate the battery chamber at
least 4 inches and then saturating the damaged area with water and
waiting four hours to analyze spontaneous lithium ion combustion.
-
Forced ignition of lithium ion cells in flipped over (vehicle resting
upside down on it’s roof) with fully
charged batteries
and timing of penetration of smoke and flames to occupants simulated
as contained within.
- Spectrograph analysis and complete
full-range chemical read-out of the front metal and plastics of a
Tesla on fire with fully
charged batteries
along with the lithium ion batteries. Disclosure of all known harmful
chemicals in said smoke.
- Manually cutting 10 (ten) fully
charged lithium
ion Tesla battery cells in half long-ways in open air at average
humidity and videotaping the results followed by dropping them in a
bucket of water 60 seconds after cutting them. With the large number
of lithium ion cells in a Tesla, physics and the law of averages
predict that at least 10 cells will be fully ruptured in a high speed
accident.
Plus such additional tests to be specified
by:
The
Center for Auto Safety
Davis
College Engineering Department
Denver College Engineering
Department
General Motors
Ford Motor Company
Automobile
Dealers Association
and other public interest safety groups
4.
How many fire
incidents have there been.
Factory
Fire 1?
Factory Fire 2?
Boston Fire?
Half Moon Bay
Fire?
Tenn. Fire?
Seattle Fire?
Mexico Fire?
Factory
Prototype Fires?
other post crash and testing
fires…
5. Contacts
to follow-up on investigations
##
http://www.nhtsa.gov/Contact
With a copy to:
##
public.affairs@dot.gov
The
Center for Auto Safety
Organization
that informs consumers about auto safety
issues.
www.autosafety.org
1825
Connecticut Ave, NW
Suite 330
Washington, DC
20009-5708
(202)
328-7700http://www.autosafety.org/fileacomplaint
Criminal
Investigations:
https://tips.fbi.gov/
with
a copy
to:
askdoj@usdoj.gov
antitrust.complaints@usdoj.gov
https://wb-gop-oversight.house.gov/
Chairman
Barbara Boxer
Senate Select Committee on Ethics
220 Hart
Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Fax:
(202) 224-7416
For German
Investigations:
Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA)
at:
pressestelle@kba.de
and at this link:
http://www.kba.de/cln_031/nn_540136/EN/Service__en/Contact/Contact__node__en.html?__nnn=true
and
by hard-copy mail to:
Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt
Stabsstelle
(Office of Interdepartmental functions)
Mr. Thomas Meyer
24932
Flensburg
Tesla
Drivers More Likely To Get In Accidents, With Their Exploding Cars,
Than Mainstream Drivers?
Sociological
reports, such as the report below, confirm that Tesla drivers are
more likely to drive drunk, use drugs and respect less laws:
Various
crash reports find that a large number of Tesla drivers drive drunk.
Here is a typical mocking web graphic pointing out this fact:
Tesla
related investors engage in this sort of extreme behavior and use
their resources to promote the car as a tool to skirt social bounds
with speed and sex. Skirting social bounds often lies close to
skirting laws and common sense. Here are reports on activities and
personalities of these people who promote the
vehicle:
http://vcracket.weebly.com
A
Tesla Driver is now charged with the homicide of two people in a
crash with their Tesla.
The
evidence shows that Tesla drivers and the Tesla Culture promotes
extra-carelessness, extra arrogance, extra drinking, extra
distraction due to sexual theatrics and an overall requirement to
create higher-than-normal safety parameters for these drivers,
particularly in light of the highly explosive bed of material they
are driving around amongst other consumers and structures. Tesla
drivers appear to be more likely to crash, or create lithium ion
thermal event circumstances, because of the cultural dynamic which
Tesla attracts.
7. Original
participant conflicts-of-interest created reduced safety oversight
A
certain, specific, group of investors, known to the FBI, The GAO, The
SEC and
the
Senate Ethics Committee, purchased undo influence on the previous
Tesla
decisions
process, in order to acquire “unjust rewards” from the U.S.
Treasury.
These
investors, coincidentally, provided funds to related campaign efforts
and,
shockingly,
they all hold major investments in the very battery system in
question.
Because
of this, the American consumer has been forced to “accidentally”
conduct some of these tests at great personal risk to those
consumers. These risks should have been disclosed by Tesla prior to
the application for their DOE loan and prior to their first contact
with NHTSA. Tesla produced documents show that Tesla was aware of the
dangers disclosed herein.
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Appendix:
Reference Data:
FROM:
http://lithium-ion.weebly.com
The
lurking threat in your car and home “over a million failures of
this chemistry and these batteries globally..”
Go to
http://www.ntsb.gov/
and demand action:
“LITHIUM ION BATTERIES ARE MADE
OVERSEAS BY CHEAP LABOR WHERE OSHA CAN’T WATCH. POOR PEOPLE MAKE
LITHIUM ION BATTERIES OFF SHORE WHERE THEY ARE NOT TOLD ABOUT THE
TOXIC CANCER, LIVER AND LUNG DISEASES THEY GET FROM THE MANUFACTURING
PROCESS. SILICON VALLEY VC’S PUSH LITHIUM ION BECAUSE THEY CAN MAKE
A HUGE PROFIT ON THE CHEAP LABOR BUILDING A BATTERY THAT SELF
DESTRUCTS BUILT BY WORKERS WHO DIE FROM TOXIC POISONING. CHINESE,
MALAY, MEXICAN AND OTHER WORKERS, SHOULD FILE CLASS ACTION LAWSUITS
AGAINST SILICON VALLEY VC’S WHO PUSH THESE BATTERIES.”
Tesla
Motors Inc. TSLA shares
tanked after a video of a Model S on fire circulated on the web,
prompting the electric car company to move quickly to douse the
flames of bad publicity.
Elizabeth Jarvis-Shean, director
of global communications at Tesla, confirmed that the vehicle
engulfed in flames was indeed a Tesla but stressed that the driver
walked away without injuries.
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Another
Tesla
Caught On Fire While Sitting In A Toronto
…
Earlier
this month, a Tesla
Model S sitting in a Toronto
garage ignited and caught on fire. The car was about four months old
and was not plugged in to an electric socket, says a
source.
rr.com/articles/2014/02/13/a/another-tesla-cau…
Tesla
Issues Statement On Fiery Car Crash That Caused The Stock To
Tank
MMamta Badkar
Tesla’s stock was down
over 7% to a low of $175.40 today, but pared some of its losses to
close down 6.24% at$180.95.
It appears that shares began
to tumble in the last half hour on reports that a Tesla Model S car
caught fire on Washington State Route 167.
Some speculated
that the video highlights problems with the car’s battery. Though
others rushed to point out that the battery is located in the back of
the car.
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“Media
finds that “Safety Investigators” (read “SHILLS”) are bribed
by VC’s and lithium holding companies to say “nothing to see
here”, “lithium batteries are probably ok”. Beware of NTSB
“consultant’s” and “investigators” who are being bribed,
offered after-politics high pay jobs, called up by bribed
congressional staff with “suggestions”, given sports tickets,
handed stock in certain ventures and other bribes. Many of the
“investigators” need to be put under investigation themselves!!!!
When you see an investigator talking about how lithium ion is a
wonderful thing, investigate them!”
The following are a
variety of quotes, from across the web, demonstrating the critical
nature of this public safety issue:
“Lithium ion
batteries are blowing up, starting fires and, generally, destroying
people’s homes, cars, electronics and physical health. Boeing
was
just ordered to stop flying the 787 Dreamliner because it’s
Lithium ion batteries are catching fire spontaneously.”
“A
group of silicon valley venture capitalists forced/leveraged the
government to buy and pay for these specific batteries, that they
have stock in, in order to benefit their profit margins. Other
batteries don’t have these problems. They knew about this from day
one but put greed ahead of safety. There are thousands and thousands
of reports of spontaneous lithium ion fires but the VC’s who back
lithium ion pay to keep this information hushed up.
Millions of
these batteries have been recalled for fire risk. The VC’s tried to
push as many as they could before they got caught. Now they are
caught. These VC’s own stock in lithium mining companies
too.”
“Here is the Fisker Karma after it got wet and
the batteries blew up. These batteries blow up JUST FROM GETTING WET!
ALL of these burned up hulks are brand new $100,000.00+ cars that
just blew up and torched everything around them just because they got
wet! How bad do you want a Fisker or Tesla now? Fisker’s insurance
company is balking at paying for this saying: “You knew this would
happen”.
Picture
These links show vast sets of Fisker
electric cars that burst into flames just because they GOT
WET:
http://updates.jalopnik.com/post/34669789863/more-than-a-dozen-fisker-karma-hybrids-caught-fire-and
http://green.autoblog.com/2012/08/12/fisker-flambe-second-karma-spontaneously-combusts-w-video/
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/11/05/how-sandy-may-have-set-17-plug-in-hybrids-on-fire/
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/fisker-karma-spontaneously-combusts/
http://cbdakota.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/fisker-karmas-catch-fire-following-inundation-by-sandy/
http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/12/fisker-karma-hyrbid-ev-second-fire/
http://www.techfever.net/2012/08/fisker-karma-hybrid-ev-ignites-while-parked/
http://evmc2.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/fisker-karma-fire-report/
http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/karma-burns-owners-mansion/
http://www.carbuzz.com/news/2012/11/1/Karmas-Ignite-After-Hurricane-Floods-Newark-Port-7711437/
THE
UNDERPAN OF THE TESLA MAGIC CARPET OF DOOM. THIS WHOLE THING IS FULL
OF LITHIUM. YOUR WHOLE FAMILY IS SUPPOSED TO SIT ON TOP OF
THIS!!!
TESLA HAS TO TEST THEIR BATTERIES IN a BLAST
CHAMBER!!!!!!!:
IF TESLA SAYS THIS THING IS SO SAFE WHY DO
THEY TEST IT IN A STEEL ENCLOSED EXPLOSION ROOM WITH WIRES COMING IN
THROUGH BLAST HOLES!!!!??????
“TESLA ELECTRIC CARS HAVE 6800
CHANCES OF “GOING THERMAL”.
“TESLA ELECTRIC CAR BATTERIES
ARE MORE LIKELY TO BLOW UP.” SAYS STANFORD ENGINEER, “USING
LITHIUM ION IN AN ELECTRIC CAR DOUBLES THE CHANCES IT WILL EXPLODE OR
GO THERMAL BECAUSE AN ELECTRIC CAR PUSHES IT FURTHER THAN ANYTHING
ELSE. BOEING HAD MANY SAFETY CIRCUITS AND EVEN THOSE FAILED. THERE IS
NO WAY THE TESLA SAFETY CIRCUITS WILL NOT EVENTUALLY FAIL”
“Tesla
Electric cars have 6800 lithium ion batteries wedged into a box. This
can create a repercussive thermal event that can set the whole car
off. The TESLA 18650 batteries can be seen exploding in multiple
YOUTUBE videos. It is NOT TRUE that they are “an entirely different
battery” they are the same chemical compound that blows up.”
“A
direct quote from Tesla’s patent application, below. Tesla KNEW
this was going to happen and never adequately warned anybody. Tesla
wrote these words in the federal papers they filed yet they never
showed these words to any buyers :
“Thermal runaway is
of major concern since a single incident can lead to significant
property damage and, in some circumstances, bodily harm or loss of
life. When a battery undergoes thermal runaway, it typically emits a
large quantity of smoke, jets of flaming liquid electrolyte, and
sufficient heat to lead to the combustion and destruction of
materials in close proximity to the cell. If the cell undergoing
thermal runaway is surrounded by one or more additional cells as is
typical in a battery pack, then a single thermal runaway event can
quickly lead to the thermal runaway of multiple cells which, in turn,
can lead to much more extensive collateral damage. Regardless of
whether a single cell or multiple cells are undergoing this
phenomenon, if the initial fire is not extinguished immediately,
subsequent fires may be caused that dramatically expand the degree of
property damage. For example, the thermal runaway of a battery within
an unattended laptop will likely result in not only the destruction
of the laptop, but also at least partial destruction of its
surroundings, e.g., home, office, car, laboratory, etc. If the laptop
is on-board an aircraft, for example within the cargo hold or a
luggage compartment, the ensuing smoke and fire may lead to an
emergency landing or, under more dire conditions, a crash landing.
Similarly, the thermal runaway of one or more batteries within the
battery pack of a hybrid or electric vehicle may destroy not only the
car, but may lead to a car wreck if the car is being driven or the
destruction of its surroundings if the car is
parked.”
“WTF!!!!!!
Tesla’s own staff
have now admitted that once a lithium ion fire gets started in one of
their cars, it is almost impossible to extinguish burning lithium ion
material. This is Telsa’s own words in THEIR patent filing, (You
can look it up online) saying that the risk is monumental.
Tesla has 6800 lithium ion batteries, any one of which can “go
thermal” and start a chain reaction! If you look at all of the
referenced YOUTUBE movies you will see how easy it is to set these
things into danger mode.”
“Imagine a car crash with a
Tesla where these 6800 batteries get slammed all over and then
exposed to rain, fire hose water, water on the roads, cooling system
liquid.. OMG!! And then if, in that same accident the other car is a
gasoline car… getting burned alive sounds “BAD”! Telsa is
covering up the problems with its batteries.”
“Lithium
ion batteries have already crashed a UPS plane and killed people.
Look here:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/dreamliner-fires-spark-new-doubts-about-a-green-energy-technology/article/2519353
“
More Lithium Ion Battery disasters:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2013/01/24/is-787s-lithium-ion-battery-hazardous-to-boeings-health/
“AS
A DEMONSTRATION OF HOW DANGEROUS LITHIUM IS, NASA IS GOING TO MAKE IT
BURN IN OUTER SPACE:
“If you’re along the Eastern Seaboard
tonight, it might be worth your while to look at the sky this
evening. NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility is scheduled to
launch a sounding rocket that will release “two
red-colored lithium vapor trails in space.”
As Space.com
reports, those trails might be seen across the Mid-Atlantic and
perhaps as far north as Canada and as far south as
northern
Florida. Space.com explains how these trails will produce a
“night sky show:”
“The sounding rocket that will be used
to create the two NASA-made glowing cloud trails will be a
Terrier-Improved Orion.In this technology test launch, two
canisters in the rocket’s payload section will contain solid
metal lithium rods or chips
embedded in a thermite cake.
The thermite is ignited and produces heat to vaporize the
lithium.
“Once the vapor is released in space, it
can be detected and tracked optically. The rocket will eject
two streams of lithium which will be illuminated at high
altitudes by the sun (which will be below the local horizon at
ground level).”
In a statement, mission project manager
Libby West said the launch is a test flight for two upcoming
missions. It’ll give scientists a view of two different
methods for creating lithium vapor trails. By the way, NASA
says the “lithium combustion process poses no threat to the
public during the release in space.”
If lithium is so
dangerous it will even burn in space, why are we putting it in our
airplanes and cars???????
Lithium Ion batteries blow up
and burn down commercial building:
http://westhawaiitoday.com/sections/news/nation-world-news/787-battery-blew-%E2%80%9906-lab-test-burned-down-building.html
“Tesla
and Fisker have only sold a few hundred cars, (thank god) because
nobody but dicks want these overpriced eliteist toys. A regular car
company sells hundreds of thousands of cars per model. Every single
Tesla or Fisker sold increases the likelihood of a burn up. Those
burn-ups will affect the homes, cars and lives of the people next
door who never even bought one.”
“Go to
http://www.youtube.com
and type into the search window:
“Lithium ion explosion”
or “lithium battery and water” or “lithium ion water” and any
related derivation and you will hundreds of videos about how
dangerous these batteries are. There are numerous videos of Tesla’s
18650 batteries blowing up.”
“This article in the LA
Times sheds more light of the horrors of Lithium
Ion:
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/18/business/la-fi-dreamliner-battery-20130119
“
“Lithium Ion batteries “go thermal” in peoples
pockets, in your notebook, especially in your Tesla and Fisker car
and everywhere else. There are thousands and thousands of articles
documenting this and there is a cover-up by the VC’s that fund
these things to keep this fact out-of-sight.
Making
Lithium Ion batteries poisons the workers who make them. It is a
dangerous product. Each time the workers, particularly in Asia,
realize they are being poisoned by the factory, they jack up the
product. Outlaw lithium ion batteries. Demand a recall.”
There
are PLENTY of other energy storage solutions that do not involve the
highly compromised Lithium Ion chemistry!”
“Below are
a few samples of HUNDREDS of videos proving that Lithium Ion
Batteries JUST BLOW UP. This is why TSA does not want them, or
liquid, on planes.”
Lithium
Battery Explosion Burns Hong Kong Home To The Ground:
By
Stephanie Mlot
A Hong Kong couple have been displaced
after an exploding Samsung Galaxy S 4 smartphone burst into flames,
burning their house to a crisp.
The man, identified in the
original Xianguo.com report only as Mr. Du, claims that his phone,
battery, and charger were all legitimate Samsung products, but that’s
now difficult to confirm since his home and everything in it were
destroyed.
According to the translated report, Du sat on
the living room sofa playing the game “Love Machine” on his
charging GS4 when it suddenly exploded. In the heat of the moment, he
threw the device onto the couch, which caught fire. The flames then
spread to the curtains and the rest of the house, “out of control,”
Xianguo said.
Du, his wife, and his dogs managed to escape
the house unscathed; neighbors were temporarily evacuated as
firefighters fought the flames. Almost all of the couple’s
furniture and appliances burned to ash, the news site said, adding
that their Mercedes parked outside was also damaged.
Whether
or not the true cause of an entire house fire was a singular 5-inch
smartphone remains to be seen, though a fire department investigation
initially resulted in a report of “no suspicious
circumstances.”
Samsung did not immediately respond to
PCMag’s request for comment, but told Xianguo that it will “carry
out detailed investigations and tests to determine the cause of the
incident.”Last year, a Galaxy S III owner in Dublin was driving in
his car when the device caught fire. Cell phone safety is
increasingly becoming an issue in Asia, where two cases of iPhone
shock occurred within a week of each other this month. On July 11, a
23-year-old flight attendant with China Southern Airlines was
allegedly electrocuted when she took a call on her Apple device while
it was charging. She was reportedly using the original charger when
she was killed.
Boeing
787 Dreamliner woes put spotlight on lithium ion battery risks
BY
KEN BENSINGER,Los Angeles Times
Chances are the same kind
of battery that twice caught fire in Boeing 787 Dreamliners in recent
weeks is in your pocket at this very moment.
Lithium ion
batteries, small and powerful, have become the electricity storage
device of choice. They are everywhere — in cellular phones,
laptops, power tools, even cars. They allow us to talk, email and
drill longer than ever possible in the past.
But the
incidents that led to the grounding of the 787 fleet worldwide, and
the decision by Boeing on Friday to temporarily halt all deliveries
of the plane, have highlighted a troubling downside of these
energy-dense dynamos: their tendency to occasionally burst into
flames.
FOR THE RECORD: Dreamliner batteries: An article
in the Jan. 19 Section A on lithium ion battery safety and the
grounding of the Boeing 787 incorrectly described a fire in a
Chevrolet Volt automobile. The battery did not ignite spontaneously;
instead it burned after a crash test damaged the vehicle’s cooling
system and the test car was left parked with the battery fully
charged, eventually causing it to overheat. With investigators now
working to determine the cause of the incidents, one on a Dreamliner
on a Boston runway, the other forcing an emergency landing of a 787
in western Japan, the larger question of lithium ion safety has
snapped into focus.
“Every battery can burn and every
battery can be flammable,” said Mike Eskra, a Milwaukee-based
battery development scientist who also works as a battery fire
investigator for insurers. “But lithium ion batteries are more
dangerous because they store more energy. It’s like a firecracker
instead of a stick of dynamite.”
The casualty list is
long. In recent years, tens of thousands of laptop batteries have
been recalled due to the risk of fire or explosion. The 400-pound
lithium ion battery on General Motors’ cutting-edge electric car,
the Chevrolet Volt, burst into flames seemingly spontaneously while
parked in 2011. And investigators blamed a cargo hold full of lithium
ion batteries for a fire that
caused a UPS-operated 747 to crash
shortly after takeoff from Dubai in late 2010.
That crash,
which killed both pilots, is one of more than 100 incidents recorded
by the Federal Aviation Administration linking lithium ion batteries
to onboard fires over the last two decades. This month, new rules
took effect limiting the transport of lithium ion batteries in
aircraft. And the FAA had long prohibited use of the technology in
commercial airplanes.
That changed in 2007, when it
granted Boeing permission to use the batteries in the 787 under a
number of conditions to ensure safety. For Boeing the lithium ion
advantage was clear.
Thanks to their chemistry, the
rechargeable batteries can store as much energy as a nickel metal
hydride pack that’s 50% heavier, while charging and discharging
faster than other battery types. That’s made them attractive for
military applications such as the B-2 bomber and also for use on the
International Space Station and the Mars Rover.
Lithium
ion batteries enabled Boeing to swap out heavy hydraulic systems in
the airframe for lightweight electronics and electric motors to
operate systems like wing de-icers. That’s a key reason the
Dreamliner burns 20% less fuel than other wide-body
aircraft.
The weight and power savings are exactly what
made lithium ion batteries popular in other applications. In excess
of 95% of mobile phone batteries worldwide are lithium ion, and
without lithium ion, laptops couldn’t run anywhere near as long as
they do without a recharge.
“They completely dominate
the consumer market,” said Vishal Sapru, energy and power systems
research manager at consulting firm Frost & Sullivan in Mountain
View, Calif.. He estimates that global sales of lithium ion batteries
reached $14.7 billion last year, up from $9.6 billion in 2009, a 53%
increase. Sapru expects the market to soar to $50.7 billion by
2018. “No other battery chemistries are growing at that
rate.”
But lithium ion also has downsides. The
batteries tend to have shorter life spans than older, more proven
battery technologies. And although the price is falling, lithium ion
is still more expensive than other batteries. Although some carmakers
have embraced the technology, others, such as Toyota, have decided
against it. Several makers of lithium ion auto batteries for electric
vehicles have filed for bankruptcy last year because of weak
demand.
Safety experts also have concerns. Because
lithium ion batteries can store more energy, and discharge it more
quickly, than other batteries, lithium ion cells can get mch
hotter than other technologies in the event of an overcharge or the
external application of a heat source. Larger applications, such as
the 63-pound batteries on the 787, incorporate multiple cells and the
heat can spread rapidly from cell to cell, a chain reaction called
“thermal runaway.”
And while other types of batteries
use a water-based electrolyte in each cell, lithium ion relies
on a highly flammable solvent. When heated up, that solvent
tends to vaporize, spraying the burnable gas into the surrounding
air. As a result, lithium ion battery fires burn extremely hot, as
high as 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Those conditions were
blamed for an explosion at a General Motors battery testing lab last
April that caused $5 million in damage and sent one person to the
hospital. GM said flammable gas had vented from an experimental
lithium ion battery that heated up during extreme
testing.
“Lithium ion is very controversial in the
safety engineering space,” said Brian Barnett, vice president for
battery technology at Tiax, a technology firm in Lexington,
Mass. He spoke last month at a conference on battery safety in Las
Vegas, where more than three-quarters of the presentations focused on
lithium ion batteries.
The cause of the fires in the two
Dreamliners has still not been determined and neither Boeing nor the
Japanese company that made the batteries, GS Yuasa, have publicly
commented on likely factors. Boeing subjected the batteries on the
plane to thousands of hours of testing and installed numerous safety
systems specific to the batteries.
“We have high
confidence in the safety of the 787 and stand squarely behind its
integrity as the newest addition to our product family,” Boeing
Chief Executive im McNerny said Friday.
Barnett and others
emphasize that it’s not uncommon to see problems in relatively new
technologies. But they add that most lithium ion fires are caused by
an external problem, such as a bad circuit or a software glitch that
leads to overcharging. Another common problem in consumer
electronics is the use of low-cost wiring and other components that
can overheat and spark or catch fire next to the battery
itself.
Eskra, the battery fire investigator, said
he’s seen fires started by Chinese-made toys that use lithium ion
batteries hooked up to chargers designed for nickel cadmium r nickel
metal hydride batteries. Manufacturing errors, including allowing
tiny metal particles to contaminate cells, can cause dangerous
shorts, although they are exceedingly rare.
“Somebody
tried to cut corners somewhere,” he said, noting that most lithium
ion fires are caused by a tiny part that malfunctioned somewhere
along the line and are easily resolved. “It’s a $2 fix, but it
takes half a million dollars in research to
figure out what it
is.”
Sometimes the problem is more persistent. In
2006, Sony announced a global recall of more than 10 million lithium
ion laptop batteries used in a variety of laptop computers after more
than a dozen fires, and two years later issued a second
recall.
“This is a battery type that is only one of
hundreds of possible batteries but this particular type was pushed by
a few companies and investors so they could make money off it at the
risk of public injury or death…”
When a test of a
lithium-ion battery charger turned into an inferno at Securaplane
Technologies Inc. in 2006, temperatures reached as high as
1,200
degrees and three waves of firefighters failed to save the
building. An employee of the Oro Valley company blasted the
flaming battery with a fire
extinguisher to no effect. Two
hours later, the galvanized metal roof collapsed, and the 10,000
square-foot building was a total loss.
It’s a fire that
federal safety regulators are taking another look at now, since
Securaplane provides two key battery components to the Boeing
787
Dreamliner, the start-power and battery-charger units.
Records from local Golder Ranch Fire Department, the first of three
fire departments to respond to the blaze, describe “an
uncontrolled thermal reaction (that) caused the battery to vent
and this venting caused the ignition to various items and fixtures
throughout the test lab area.”
“The electrical
technician who was performing a test on the battery when it exploded
likened the experience to being near a jet after-burner.
Electrolytes
from inside the battery were shooting 10 feet into the air, the
former Securaplane employee, Michael Leon, said in an interview
Friday. “The
magnitude of that energy is indescribable.”
“The
fire stands as a graphic illustration of the power stored within
energy-dense lithium-ion batteries and the potential consequences if
something
goes awry. It also highlights the importance and
delicacy of the quality-control measures applied to a novel – and
potentially explosive – technology, a
technology now allowed,
under special conditions, to be used as the main and auxiliary power
source of certain aircraft.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the
company’s newest and most energy-efficient plane, uses two
lithium-ion batteries. After two battery-related incidents in the
past month, the 50 Dreamliners distributed so far have been
grounded.”
“Whistleblower:
Dreamliner LITHIUM ION Batteries Could Explode
He
says he was fired after warning about battery problems
By
Christopher Freeburn, InvestorPlace Writer
Boeing‘s
(NYSE:BA) new 787 Dreamliner could end up being a nightmare for the
aircraft giant.
A former senior engineering technician at
Securaplane Technologies, which makes the charging system for the
lithium-ion batteries used in 787 Dreamliners, told CNBC that the
batteries are defective and liable to explode if they overheat.”
”
Lithium-ion batteries are heat intolerant, according to a potential
whistleblower familiar with…
Lithium-ion
batteries are heat intolerant, according to a potential whistleblower
familiar with their technology. “Too much heat on those things,
they will go into a thermal runaway, they will explode.” The
informant, a former senior engineering technician of Securaplane
Technologies, was fired in 2007 for repeated misconduct, but he says
it was in retaliation for voicing concerns about the batteries. The
NTSB acknowledges that the lithium-ion batteries in Boeing’s (BA)
Dreamliner experienced a thermal runaway, but insists there’s no
connection between the incident and the whistleblower’s claims. “
“The
Japan Transport Safety Board makes a number of interim points. This
battery, unlike one that burst into flames in a Japan Airlines 787
earlier in January, did not actually ignite. It experienced a thermal
runaway, as a result of a build up of heat, yet the materials
affected did not start burning. While the semantics might escape the
casual observer the safety investigator said:-
“The
battery was destroyed in a process called thermal runaway, in which
the heat builds up to the point where it becomes
uncontrollable.
“But it is still not known what caused
the uncontrollable high temperature”.
In simple
language, uncontrollable rises in temperature will if uncontrolled
most likely result in a fire, including one that can burn through
structural composites and alloys, and prove almost uncontrollable by
fire fighters, even on the ground.
It took a Boston
airport fire brigade detachment 99 minutes to put out the Japan
Airlines fire using equipment unavailable if the airliner was hours
away from an emergency landing strip in the high arctic or north
Pacific, which that particular flight had only recently traversed
before the fire broke out after landing.
he Japan air
safety investigator said the wire supposed to ground or discharge
static electricity build ups in the battery had been severed
meaning
it had experienced abnormal levels of current.
However
as also confirmed by the early stage of the US incident investigation
into the Japan Airlines fire, this large lithium-ion battery had not
experienced a voltage surge, and had so far as flight data recordings
could tell, had been operating normally immediately before the
emergency landing.
Expect the news release in Japan to
cause more tension between those who want the 787s to fly again
pending a full understanding of the causes and cures in these
incidents, and independent safety investigators who will recommend
to safety regulators like the FAA a continuation of the
grounding”
“One aspect that may confuse some people
relates to the decision to use this particular type of battery. The
danger posed by it has been evident by a lengthy and documented list
of disturbing events in recent years. They include many thousands of
batteries used in laptops being recalled, because of determined risks
of fire or explosion. General Motors were also placed in the battery
limelight. In 2011, the 400 pounds Lithium ion battery in their
Chevrolet Volt apparently was subject to spontaneous combustion when
it burst into flames, while reportedly in a parked vehicle. In 2010,
a UPS-operated Boeing 747 crashed just after take-off from Dubai.
Investigators placed the blame on a cargo hold that contained Lithium
ion batteries, for a fire that caused the incident.”
A
number of incidents of cell phones with lithium ion batteries
blowing up in peoples pockets, notebook computers blowing up in
peoples briefcases and other shocking fires have been deeply
documented.
FISKERS CARS THAT BLEW UP AND BURST INTO
FLAMES JUST BECAUSE THEIR LITHIUM ION BATTERIES GOT WET
“Here
is where they make some of these batteries, in forced labor camps:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/01/13/china-s-labor-pains.html
Because, as we all know, chinese prostitutes are the best choice to
make the things that keep our airplanes in the air and our cars on
the road. The silicon valley venture capital guys front these
batteries because they have such cheap labor to give them great
profits.. quality control? not so
much…”
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NHTSA
DEMAND LETTER
ADDITIONAL
DATA:
Additional
Mechanical Failures of the Tesla. Some could lead to lock-in during
fire:
Mocking web image, below, highlights
acknowledgement of high volume of Tesla drivers drinking and
driving:
Image, below, shows that the battery
compartment of Tesla has more impact points to cause ignition that
any other electric car:
The Chevy Volt did a recall
because of the lithium ion dangers and added extra steel, (image
below) around the lithium ion chamber but they had already
acknowledged this danger by burying the lithium ion deep within the
body of the car without exposing it to the outside edges like Tesla
does:
The following article (image below:) indicates that
Tesla was in violation of federal law when it applied for DOE funds,
which required that a company was not about to go bankrupt. Musk,
herein states that he WAS about to go bankrupt when he applied.
Additionally, he states that he front-loading his friends contracts
to grab all the federal cash at a bankruptcy. This seems to indicate
that safety due diligence data was being manipulated, along with
federal law, on behalf of Tesla investors. Tjis calls into question,
all data has submitted, or will submit, relative to honesty.
Tesla
Model S charging system may have started garage fire – California
fire dept
BY
BERNIE WOODALL AND NORIHIKO SHIROUZU
(Reuters) – A
fire department in Southern California said a garage fire may have
been caused by an overheated charging system in a Tesla Model S
sedan, in the latest link between the top selling electric car and
the potential for fire.
While Tesla Motors Inc maintains
that the fire was not related to the car or its charging system, the
Orange County Fire Authority said the Tesla-supplied charging system
or the connection at the electricity panel on the wall of the garage
of a single-family home could have caused the fire.
“The
fire occurred as a result of an electrical failure in the charging
system for an electric vehicle,” said a report by the fire
authority, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters. The report also
emphasizes that the cause of the fire is unclear.
“The
most probable cause of this fire is a high resistance connection at
the wall socket or the Universal Mobile Connector from the Tesla
charging system” which was plugged into a 240-volt wall socket, the
report said.
The fire occurred on November 15 in Irvine,
California. The possible link between the fire and the Tesla Model S
was not reported previously.
The garage fire is not
related to three road fires in Model S sedans that occurred in
October and November and which caused Tesla’s stock to fall sharply
last month. The road fires occurred in Washington state, Tennessee
and Mexico.
In the U.S. incidents, Model S sedans caught
fire after running over road debris. In Mexico, a Model S caught fire
after striking a concrete wall. U.S. regulators are investigating the
cause of the U.S. road fires, which caused the high-flying stock of
the “green” car maker to fall from a high of $194.50 in late
September to under $120 in late November.On Wednesday, Tesla shares
fell 2.9 percent to close at $147.98 on the Nasdaq. The
November residential fire on the campus of the University of
California-Irvine caused $25,000 of damage to the garage and its
contents, but the Model S sustained only smoke damage, and no one in
the house was injured, according to the Orange County Fire
Authority’s report.
A Tesla representative disagreed on
Wednesday with some of the report’s findings. “We looked into the
incident,” said Tesla spokeswoman Liz Jarvis-Shean. “We can say
it absolutely was not the car, the battery or the charging
electronics.”
She added: “The cable was fine on the
vehicle side. All the damage was on the wall side. “A review of the
car’s logs showed that the battery had been charging normally, and
there were no fluctuations in temperature or malfunctions within the
battery or the charge electronics,” said Jarvis-Shean.
The
owner of the Model S, who lives at the Irvine residence, had parked
the car in the garage the evening of November 14, plugged the cord
from the vehicle into the 240-volt wall socket, and set a timer to
begin the flow of electricity to the car’s on-board batteries at
midnight. She noticed a fire just before 3 a.m. and called for help.
Fire crews put out the blaze quickly.
Some cardboard boxes
stacked near the point of connection between the Tesla Model S
charging system and the connection to the 240-volt outlet helped the
fire spread, the report said. (Reporting by Bernie Woodall in Detroit
and Norihiko Shirouzu in Beijing; editing by Matthew Lewis)
You
can also see it at:
http://tinypic.com/r/7295hs/6
WATCH
THIS VIDEO OF A TESLA BURNING AND BLOWING UP BECAUSE OF BATTERY
SHOCK
IN A CRASH.
-
Questioning the validity of the German “Safety Report”
Re-Quoted
from:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3098653/posts
NLPC
^ |
December 5, 2013 | Paul Chesser
by jazusamo
Following
incidents in Washington
state, Mexico andTennessee,
the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced it would probe
fires that occurred recently over a six week period in Tesla
Motors’ electric Model S.
And this week, as revealed
in a Detroit
News
story,
the NHTSA looks like they’re serious – at least more serious than
Germany’s transportation safety authority.
Why bring up
Germany? Because as the regulatory heat bears down in the U.S. on
Tesla and high-profile CEO Elon
Musk, they have trotted out the Eastern Europe nation to
demonstrate that they’ve been absolved of any culpability in the
fires. The media that has mostly fawned over the electric automaker
helpfully amplified the development, which certainly Musk welcomed.
He even got a slight recovery in the company stock price as a
result.
On Monday Tesla posted a press
release that claimed the company received an inquiry from the
German Federal Motor Transport Authority about the three fires. While
the NHTSA seems intent on conducting a thorough investigation (I’ll
get to those details momentarily), the Germans have already wrapped
up their inquiry! The result: After Tesla provided “data and
additional information” and the Germans “reviewed Tesla’s
responses to their inquiries,” they determined that “no
manufacturer-related defects could be found. Therefore, no further
measures under the German Product Safety Act are deemed
necessary.”
Tesla posted a copy
of the letter from the German Transport Authority – which is
addressed to what appears to be the company’s local
legal counsel – with the translation into English in the press
release. Four things beg for explanation:
The letter is dated
Nov. 27, which is only about three weeks after the most recent fire.
Such a rapid conclusion to an inquiry would seem to be a new record
for governmental efficiency looking into complicated, sensitive
matters such as this.
The
letter references a phone call earlier in the day with the attorney.
What was that
discussion about, that the Transport Authority immediately issued
its exculpatory letter the same day?
Tesla blacked out the
identity and contact information of the Transport Authority
representative who wrote the letter. Why?
It’s apparent the German authority depended
only on limited information supplied to it by Tesla (“According to
the documents, no manufacturer-related defects could be found”).
So it’s hard to give their “investigation” much credibility.
Compare that to
what the US NHTSA is asking for. As the Detroit
News reported
Tuesday, the safety agency has requested that Tesla turn over
detailed records of all consumer complaints, field reports, warranty
claims and property damage claims related to the fires.
“Describe
in detail all possible consequences to the vehicle from an impact to
the subject component that damages the battery,” wrote NHTSA
vehicle integrity chief D. Scott Yon. “Describe in detail how these
possible consequences were addressed in the design of the (Model S)
and the limits of that design to prevent damage to the propulsion
battery, stalling and fires.”
The newspaper reported
that Yon also asked for the results of all Tesla’s tests, studies,
and investigations to review the battery fires and the alleged
defect, and information about whether Tesla made any changes to the
Model S to address the possible defect of roadway debris sparking
fires in the battery packs. He also wants detailed records of
vehicles at the time of the incidents, owner contact information, and
all communication to owners or regional officers that the company
plans to issue in the next four months.
The letter was
dated November 27, and Tesla has until January 14 to respond. That’s
about 50 days just to gather the information – more than twice as
long as it took the Germans to collect, analyze and conclude their
“inquiry” that “cleared” Tesla.
Tesla has
carefully controlled information that’s been released about the
fires, including statements from the Model S owners. For the most
part media reports have derived from these. It makes you wonder if
there is some sort of non-disclosure agreement between the company
and its vehicle owners.
For example, in early October –
shortly after the first fire in Kent, Wash. – Musk posted an essay
on Tesla’s blog that explained how the Model S “struck a large
metal object” that caused damage.
“A curved section
that fell off a semi-trailer was recovered from the roadway near
where the accident occurred and, according to the road crew that was
on the scene, appears to be the culprit,” Musk explained. “The
geometry of the object caused a powerful lever action as it went
under the car, punching upward and impaling the Model S with a peak
force on the order of 25 tons. Only a force of this magnitude would
be strong enough to punch a 3-inch diameter hole through the quarter
inch armor plate protecting the base of the vehicle.”
Maybe
so, but for all the physical explanations Musk has tried to present,
no photos of the large metal object have been produced. Nor are there
any pictures – that are reasonably findable on the Web, at least –
of the tow hitch that was accused of causing the Model S fire in
Tennessee. In such a hotly scrutinized case you’d think Musk would
be parading the evidence if it existed, but he hasn’t.
In
the same blog post Musk went to great lengths to argue a conventional
gasoline powered car, in the same circumstances, could have
experienced a far worse fate.
“A typical gasoline car
only has a thin metal sheet protecting the underbody, leaving it
vulnerable to destruction of the fuel supply lines or fuel tank,
which causes a pool of gasoline to form and often burn the entire car
to the ground,” he wrote.
But the crash data doesn’t
support that. As Justin Hyde of Yahoo!’s automotive Web site
Motoramic wrote
in early November, “Even though it has fewer electric cars on the
road than its competitors (such as the Chevy
Volt or Nissan
Leaf), none have reported similar fires after crashes. And while
liquid-fueled vehicles suffer about 170,000 such fires every year,
federal data show they take place in only 0.1 percent of all
crashes.”
Tesla’s control freakishness is also
reflected in how the Model S owners who were fire victims. Has any
independent journalist interviewed them? Below Musk’s blog post was
a portion of an email exchange between Tesla’s vice president for
sales and service and Rob Carlson, the Washington driver. The VP’s
missive came off as a carefully crafted (lawyered?) explanation of
how the fire occurred and that the Model S’s safety protections
“operated correctly.” In reply, Carlson supported Tesla’s
response to the incident and said, “I am still a big fan of your
car and look forward to getting back into one.” Then he revealed
that he is an investor in Tesla – so certainly a critical response
on his part would not have helped the value of the shares he
owns!
While not exactly tanking, Musk likely felt some
anxiety (and investor pressure) when the company’s stock dropped
from almost $200 earlier this year to about $120 the last couple of
weeks, after the fires. Publicly Musk has said Tesla’s share price
was overpriced anyway (he’s right), but at the same time, what
executive wants to see a rapid drop like he’s seen? Not a moment
too soon, this week he discovered a way to turn the German “inquiry”
of the Model S fires into a Wall Street bump – the stock is up to
almost $139 this morning.
As for the American
investigation, time – and a serious examination – will tell
whether Tesla needs to revisit its Model S design or not. Before the
fires NHTSA still gave it a top safety rating, which seemed more like
it was joining
the irrational exuberance party rather than an accurate
evaluation. The signs point to the agency taking this a lot more
seriously than the Germans did, but then again, this is the Obama
administration we’re talking about, which has relentlessly
protected and subsidized the electric vehicle industry.
Paul
Chesser is an associate fellow for the National Legal and Policy
Center and publishes CarolinaPlottHound.com
, an aggregator of
North Carolina news.
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Samsung
exploding Lithium ion Galaxy COVER-UP Expose proves Danger of Lithium
ion! Lithium ion and Cover-Ups seem to go hand-in-hand
. Samsung
tries to silence user whose S4 caught fire, it doesn’t go over
well
Brad
Sams
Oh Samsung, you tried to have a YouTube
video pulled after it showed a Galaxy
S4 that caught fire while charging but this is about to blow up
in your PR and legal teams face after you sent a ‘hush’ document
to the user.
Here’s the deal, YouTube user GhostlyRich
posted a video on YouTube in early December that showed that his
Samsung Galaxy S4 caught fire while charging. While the battery did
not explode (thankfully) you can clearly see the charging port is
burnt. To no surprise, a burnt charging point rendered the device
useless and seeing that the Phone is still under warranty, you would
think Samsung would simply exchange the device and make good with the
consumer to fix the issue.
Wrong. What Samsung has
done, foolishly, is sent the user a document saying that they will
exchange his defective device only after he pulls his initial video
from YouTube. If Samsung was unaware of how the Internet works, it’s
about to find out that trying to quiet the user will result in a
black eye for the company.
Yes, we can understand why a
company would want keep this type of incident quiet but anyone who
has a basic understanding of the Internet will tell you that once
it’s posted to the web, there is no way to delete it. Sure,
removing the video might keep it a bit quieter, but that would likely
only raise more suspicion in the long run with the followers of that
YouTube channel.
Samsung has goofed up big time as the
original YouTube video, at the time of this posting, had 45,000 views
and the video showing the Samsung demand letter, well, it has over
277,000 views.
The video discussing the letter and the
incident is posted above and is worth a watch. It goes to show what
Samsung will do anything to keep its S4 issues off the radar but in
this case, it has completely backfired. Not to mention that having to
sign a contract to execute a warranty is borderline unethical for the
circumstances of this incident.
Additionally, the lithium
ion in Apple iPad Tablets are exploding:
iPad
Air
explodes,
erupting with smoke and flames in retail …
The
appeal of Apple’s sleek and slender new iPad
Air
is significantly diminished when it explodes
and pours out flames along with so much smoke that the fire
department has to be called in to extinguish the
blaze.
news.yahoo.com/ipad-air-explodes-erupting-smoke-flames…
iPad
Air
EXPLODES
leading to mobile phone shop evacuation …
Shop
is evacuated and fire brigade are called after brand new iPad
Air
EXPLODES
and fills mobile phone store with smoke . Sparks and smoke flew from
device released on November
1
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2492189/iPad-Air-EXPLODES-…
iPad
Air
EXPLODES
INTO FIREBALL as terrified fanbois flee …
iPad
Air
EXPLODES
INTO FIREBALL as terrified fanbois flee Apple Store Charred
fondleslab removed by Apple minion for
testing
theregister.co.uk/2013/11/08/ipad_air_explodes_into_fireb…
iPad
Air
explodes
at retail store in Australia
An
Apple iPad
Air
reportedly exploded at a Vodafone retail store in Canberra,
Australia, prompting the need to call the fire department to put out
the flames and
smoke.
vr-zone.com/articles/ipad-air-explodes-retail-store…
iPad
Air
explodes
in Vodafone store | CellularChief
A
Vodafone store in Canberra, Australia was evacuated and firefighters
were called in after the explosion of an Apple iPad
Air
inside the store resulted in the release of smoke that filled the
retail
establishment.
cellularchief.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/ipad-air-explodes-in-vondafo…
iPad
air
explodes
in Australia, fire department had to be …
iPad
air
explodes
in Australia, fire department had to be called in to contain the
smoke Posted by Stefan Constantinescu on Nov 08, 2013 | No Comments
»
iphonehacks.com/2013/11/ipad-air-explodes-australia-fir…
What
kind of battery did they put in the Apple ipad
AIR?
LITHIUM!!!!!!!!
—————————————————————-
Hard
to Take the German Absolution of Tesla Fires Seriously
Following
incidents in Washington
state, Mexico and Tennessee,
the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced it would
probe fires that occurred recently over a six week period in Tesla
Motors’ electric Model S.
And this week, as revealed
in a Detroit
News story,
the NHTSA looks like they’re serious – at least more serious than
Germany’s transportation safety authority.
Why bring up
Germany? Because as the regulatory heat bears down in the U.S. on
Tesla and high-profile CEO Elon
Musk, they have trotted out the Eastern Europe nation to
demonstrate that they’ve been absolved of any culpability in the
fires. The media that has mostly fawned over the electric automaker
helpfully amplified the development, which certainly Musk welcomed.
He even got a slight recovery in the company stock price as a
result.
On Monday Tesla posted a press
release that claimed the company received an inquiry from
the German Federal Motor Transport Authority about the three fires.
While the NHTSA seems intent on conducting a thorough investigation
(I’ll get to those details momentarily), the Germans have already
wrapped up their inquiry! The result: After Tesla provided “data
and additional information” and the Germans “reviewed Tesla’s
responses to their inquiries,” they determined that “no
manufacturer-related defects could be found. Therefore, no further
measures under the German Product Safety Act are deemed
necessary.”
Tesla posted a copy
of the letter from the German Transport Authority – which
is addressed to what appears to be the company’s local
legal counsel – with the translation into English in the
press release. Four things beg for explanation:
The letter is dated
Nov. 27, which is only about three weeks after the most recent fire.
Such a rapid conclusion to an inquiry would seem to be a new record
for governmental efficiency looking into complicated, sensitive
matters such as this.
The
letter references a phone call earlier in the day with the attorney.
What was that discussion
about, that the Transport Authority immediately issued its
exculpatory letter the same day?
Tesla blacked out the
identity and contact information of the Transport Authority
representative who wrote the letter. Why?
It’s apparent the German authority depended
only on limited information supplied to it by Tesla (“According to
the documents, no manufacturer-related defects could be found”).
So it’s hard to give their “investigation” much credibility.
Compare that to
what the US NHTSA is asking for. As the Detroit
Newsreported
Tuesday, the safety agency has requested that Tesla turn over
detailed records of all consumer complaints, field reports, warranty
claims and property damage claims related to the fires.
“Describe
in detail all possible consequences to the vehicle from an impact to
the subject component that damages the battery,” wrote NHTSA
vehicle integrity chief D. Scott Yon. “Describe in detail how these
possible consequences were addressed in the design of the (Model S)
and the limits of that design to prevent damage to the propulsion
battery, stalling and fires.”
The newspaper reported
that Yon also asked for the results of all Tesla’s tests, studies,
and investigations to review the battery fires and the alleged
defect, and information about whether Tesla made any changes to the
Model S to address the possible defect of roadway debris sparking
fires in the battery packs. He also wants detailed records of
vehicles at the time of the incidents, owner contact information, and
all communication to owners or regional officers that the company
plans to issue in the next four months.
The letter was
dated November 27, and Tesla has until January 14 to respond. That’s
about 50 days just to gather the information – more than twice as
long as it took the Germans to collect, analyze and conclude their
“inquiry” that “cleared” Tesla.
Tesla has
carefully controlled information that’s been released about the
fires, including statements from the Model S owners. For the most
part media reports have derived from these. It makes you wonder if
there is some sort of non-disclosure agreement between the company
and its vehicle owners.
For example, in early October –
shortly after the first fire in Kent, Wash. – Musk posted an essay
on Tesla’s blog that explained how the Model S “struck a large
metal object” that caused damage.
“A curved section
that fell off a semi-trailer was recovered from the roadway near
where the accident occurred and, according to the road crew that was
on the scene, appears to be the culprit,” Musk explained. “The
geometry of the object caused a powerful lever action as it went
under the car, punching upward and impaling the Model S with a peak
force on the order of 25 tons. Only a force of this magnitude would
be strong enough to punch a 3-inch diameter hole through the quarter
inch armor plate protecting the base of the vehicle.”
Maybe
so, but for all the physical explanations Musk has tried to present,
no photos of the large metal object have been produced. Nor are there
any pictures – that are reasonably findable on the Web, at least –
of the tow hitch that was accused of causing the Model S fire in
Tennessee. In such a hotly scrutinized case you’d think Musk would
be parading the evidence if it existed, but he hasn’t.
In
the same blog post Musk went to great lengths to argue a conventional
gasoline powered car, in the same circumstances, could have
experienced a far worse fate.
“A typical gasoline car
only has a thin metal sheet protecting the underbody, leaving it
vulnerable to destruction of the fuel supply lines or fuel tank,
which causes a pool of gasoline to form and often burn the entire car
to the ground,” he wrote.
But the crash data doesn’t
support that. As Justin Hyde of Yahoo!’s automotive Web site
Motoramic wrote in
early November, “Even though it has fewer electric cars on the road
than its competitors (such as the Chevy
Volt or Nissan
Leaf), none have reported similar fires after crashes. And while
liquid-fueled vehicles suffer about 170,000 such fires every year,
federal data show they take place in only 0.1 percent of all
crashes.”
Tesla’s control freakishness is also
reflected in how the Model S owners who were fire victims. Has any
independent journalist interviewed them? Below Musk’s blog post was
a portion of an email exchange between Tesla’s vice president for
sales and service and Rob Carlson, the Washington driver. The VP’s
missive came off as a carefully crafted (lawyered?) explanation of
how the fire occurred and that the Model S’s safety protections
“operated correctly.” In reply, Carlson supported Tesla’s
response to the incident and said, “I am still a big fan of your
car and look forward to getting back into one.” Then he revealed
that he is an investor in Tesla – so certainly a critical response
on his part would not have helped the value of the shares he
owns!
While not exactly tanking, Musk likely felt some
anxiety (and investor pressure) when the company’s stock dropped
from almost $200 earlier this year to about $120 the last couple of
weeks, after the fires. Publicly Musk has said Tesla’s share price
was overpriced anyway (he’s right), but at the same time, what
executive wants to see a rapid drop like he’s seen? Not a moment
too soon, this week he discovered a way to turn the German “inquiry”
of the Model S fires into a Wall Street bump – the stock is up to
almost $139 this morning.
As for the American
investigation, time – and a serious examination – will tell
whether Tesla needs to revisit its Model S design or not. Before the
fires NHTSA still gave it a top safety rating, which seemed more like
it was joining
the irrational exuberance party rather than an accurate
evaluation. The signs point to the agency taking this a lot more
seriously than the Germans did, but then again, this is the Obama
administration we’re talking about, which has relentlessly
protected and subsidized the electric vehicle industry.
[Originally
posted on the National
Legal and Policy Center]
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Tesla
Safety Challenged! The Facts:
——————————————-
Deadly
Smoke and Fumes. If the crash and fire don’t kill you now, the
toxins in the deadly smoke fumes kill you later.
(See
all that smoke in the TESLA fire, above? That smoke is filled
with deadly toxins from burning lithium
ion combined with plastics. Why does Tesla say nothing about this
in it’s buyer documents? See all the cars stuck in traffic in the
smoke plume? Do those innocent drivers, and their families, that have
to sit there, behind the fire and in the smoke, appreciate having to
breath in deadly vapors? See the fireman with the Full-Hazmat
breathing apparatus on? He knows it sucks.)
Per
the IJES via the State School of Chemical Engineering and Technology
of China:
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(Image
above: New tests
can see the cancer causing chemicals that got in your body from a
Tesla fire from just two strands of your hair or one drop of blood or
one swab of saliva. You
can’t hide product toxic poisoning anymore.)
There
are a vast number
of MSDS disclosure forms and technical product documents from the
feds, the battery companies, the FAA, the TSA, the SME, The IEEE and
tons of others say that “Lithium ion batteries will explode and
they will give off toxic gas”.
Why were the Tesla’s
not equipped with carbon dioxide fire extinguishers as required? Why
was a simple sheet of soft metal placed between the explosives and a
“thousands-of-pound-per-sq.-ft.
impact surface”
(the road)? Was the car actually engineered or did Musk just doodle
it out on the back of a napkin? You can hit the edge or front of the
car and it will go off. The reason “Elon Musk stands behind
Tesla” is because they usually blow
up starting from the front.
Andrew-
DC Group
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TESLA
COVER UP
Lithium
Ion goes boom when it gets wet, poked, charged, used or pretty much
gets unhappy for no apparent reason.
All those car hulks, below, lined up next to each other are lithium
ion electric piles of burned up $100K, per pile, cars, Nice huh? They
are going to great lengths to cover that fact up:
(Notice
the surgeon who owned it. Most of these guys are Swingin’ D Rich
Guy Male Doctors)
Those images above show many
different lithium ion electric car fires. Why is this being covered
up? By whom? So far, most Tesla’s have been acquired by
Tesla Fan Boys and their own investors
to pump up the numbers. This has prevented a number of “thermal
events” from getting reported.
WHAT!!!? You don’t
think that’s enough burning Tesla’s? Well here’s some more, the
next one is from Boston:
Not enough burning
Tesla’s?
Stand by…
RS-
LAT
——————————————————————--
Tell
The U.S. Government to order Tesla to remove all Lithium Ion
chemicals from it’s cars! Is someone telling the NTSB not to do
their job? Who?
TESLA
CAN LOCK DOORS ON ITS OWN- BURNING ALIVE = BAD THING!
You
can read a number of postings online about the continual failure of
the Tesla electronic door handles and door locks. How might fire
increase these failure-to-unlock issues. Is it possible your own
Tesla could lock you, and your family, INSIDE the car when it catches
fire? How was this tested in the safety tests, or was it even
tested?
The Tesla Defects seem to be
multiplying.
Roberta- (A
Mother)
——————————————————————————–
Lithium
ion = Bad Stuff
Notice
that in the following movie, the lithium ion battery like Tesla uses
starts exploding just when the insides are exposed to air and ALSO
when it gets wet:
———————————————————————————–
Another
Tesla Movie
So
you think: “OK, I would never drive my Tesla over any metal or
bumpy roads so I never need to worry about that”, Well, that’s
what this Tesla driver thought:
Watch the left side of the
screen along the meridian wall. You can recognize the Tesla by the
round open mouth grill.
No matter what kind of
a persnickety, self-centered, rich douche-kinda guy you are: Your
Tesla is eventually going to hit a pot-hole, bottom-out or hit some
crap in the road and then: fire and toxic
smoke!
————————————————————————————-
SHOCKER
EXCLUSIVE!!!!! Tesla “battery supply” problem -NOT. Battery
explosion problem- YES.
“The
napalm-like lava that is burning lithium-ion, combined with burning
Tesla plastic, can eat
through your entire face
in about 2.5 seconds and it is nearly impossible
to extinguish.
This is not good stuff. They tried it on pig-corpses, ugly
results.
There
are over 1000 different ways to store electricity.
Lithium ion is the
worst. The faster
a car goes, the more likely it is to crash and to flip over in a
crash. Tesla is the fastest car so it
will crash more
and flip over more. People that drive Tesla’s are, generally,
arrogant yuppie males with ego issues who want to go fast and show
off. That makes crashes even more likely. While you are driving
around on a carpet of deadly lithium ion, buried in the floorboards
of the Tesla at your feet, and the car suddenly flips over, you are
now trapped under a ceiling of burning lithium ion that firefighters
can’t extinguish and your face burns off. This is like flouridation
of water controversy; this chemical was specified because a certain
group is making money off of this chemical. Over
time, each battery has a higher and higher chance of “going off”
because the charging demands of a car combined with the degradation
offset of a single lithium ion battery is high in normal
circumstances. Tesla uses them in extreme circumstances. They were
never built for cars. You
are not going to see less Tesla fires, you are going to see more.
Tesla has dense-packed 6800 lithium ion packs in a closed metal box
under your seat. That is 6800 chances of having your face burned off
and 6800 chances of getting rained on with burning lithium ion and
plastic, gassed out and burned up by the Tesla. I don’t like the
odds. Look at some of these pictures on this site, it even melts the
metal.
The people that are telling you “Lithium
Ion is just a lovely thing, don’t worry about all of those scare
stories” have a
financial investment in batteries using this chemical. Almost
all of them have worked for, invested in or been hired by the people
that make money off it.
The form factor Tesla uses is a common 18650 battery you can buy on
Amazon and Ebay so Tesla
is not telling the truth about “having a battery supply problem”
in their latest financial reports.
They are having a
battery blow-up problem.
Suppliers won’t sell them any batteries because they know Tesla
abuses the batteries in the way they deploy them in cars and they
don’t want to get sued too, along with the lawsuits that are coming
after Tesla. These batteries were never intended to be used in
cars. All this has been known for decades. If the “biggest electric
car funding effort in history” hired the “greatest technical
review team ever created”, how did this get by? Why didn’t
the reviewers mention this for Tesla’s ‘loan’? This is
not new technical information!”
Dr. Lee- USGA
(FYI-
I am available for TV interviews. Contact me through the SOMO
funnel.)
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NHTSA
has now called Musk a Liar TWICE, said he lied about probe and lied
about NHTSA safety rating
The
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which
produced the safety rating, isn’t
happy about Tesla’s boasting.
In
its announcement, Tesla explained that the Model S earned five-star
marks in every category; a rare feat. On top of that, its overall
Vehicle Safety Score, provided to manufacturers, gave it a “new
combined record of 5.4 stars.”
In a statement on its
website, the NHTSA issued a rebuke to Tesla:
“NHTSA
does not rate vehicles beyond 5 stars and does not rank or order
vehicles within the star rating categories. In addition, the agency
has guidelines in place for manufacturers and advertising agencies to
follow to ensure
that accurate and consistent information is conveyed to the
public.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/nhtsa-tesla-didnt-request-investigation-2013-11
http://www.businessinsider.com/government-mad-at-tesla-over-safety-claim-2013-8
Reporters
use a new technology called: FACTS,
to recall that only just the other day Musk was screaming in the
press that “no recall” and “no probe” was needed, yet today
he says he has secretly been demanding that NHTSA do a probe. Hmmmmm?
Interesting!
Bloomberg, Guardian and Reuters
staff have now spoken with NHTSA staff, including the head: David
Strickland, who
have said, on record, that Tesla
did NOT request probe
and that it would be “unprecedented” for any car company to
request a liability probe like that. Another
Musk lie to his investors.
Both the lie and the counter, published and on the record. NHTSA said
it had already had concerns about Tesla prior to any calls from Tesla
or Tesla’s investors. Previous communications had been from Tesla
backers and Senators (Who Tesla investors already had in their
pockets) saying “don’t do a probe”! Another P.T. Barnum
“smoke-screen” move by Musk. Musk tried to take credit for
creating Tesla even though Martin Eberhard created Tesla. Musk tried
to take credit for creating the probe even though the feds had it
already going. Musk tried to take credit for inventing electric cars
even though GM and others did it decades earlier. Musk changed the
NHTSA safety results and got caught lying about that too. Musk tried
to take credit for creating the HyperLoop even though MIT created it
9 years earlier. What’s up with this douche bag?
GHT-
LAT
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Tesla:
Unsafe At Any Speed, Unethical at Inception.
If
I read all of the posts and articles on this page I get:
“Tesla
seems to have been used to provide kickbacks
to lithium
ion investors
in exchange
for politics
and those investors may, or may not, have known that lithium
ion blows up,
on its own, way more often than gasoline. When it does blow-up, along
with the plastics and metals of the car, the
toxic smoke and vapors
can lead to a slow
death of the
occupants and bystanders. The Tesla batteries were not
made for cars
and when they are made, the workers who make them become very ill or
fatally ill.
There are plenty of electric cars available, today, from other
companies. Tesla was not the first or the last and has led no wave of
innovation that was not already in place decades earlier.
Tesla staff and bundlers bribed Washington DC officials
to get taxpayer money and fake stock market positioning for a
billionaire. They deserve no applause. Almost all of the “Tesla
fanboy Hype”
is Tesla’s own hired bloggers, and investors, run out of Fremont,
creating fake buzz by operating as thousands of fake social media
accounts.”
Does
that about sum it up?
EACH
of those electric Fisker cars, in the photos above, blew
up as they sat there
when their lithium ion got wet in a storm. Lithium Ion blows up just
from getting wet (or overcharged or banged). The cars, in the photos
above, were not
all brought there, and put together, after they blew up. They
just blew up sitting in the parking lot waiting to get delivered to
customers. That is
a picture of dozens and dozens of VERY expensive cars that were being
used as a scam to sell this chemical called “lithium ion” that
campaign financiers
had a near monopoly on.
It was a kickback
deal. Due
Diligence was done, but ordered to be ignored, in order to shove as
much cash out the door, and in their pockets, before they got
caught.
Here is another one, below,
the owner just ran into the grocery store and BOOM
the lithium ion batteries in his
$100K+ lithium ion
electric super car just blew
up, taking the tree and the car next to it out:
Watch
As Another Fisker
Karma Spontaneously Combusts, The …Aug
17, 2012 … The Karma above caught fire in a Woodside,
CA parking lot while …. attention away from the latest green energy
project to blow up
in the …
http://www.dailybail.com/
home/
watch-as-another-fisker-karma-spontaneously-combusts-the-100.html
– View
by Ixquick Proxy – Highlight
Second
Fisker
Karma Burns – Did EV1/Volt Engineer Predict Cause …Aug
11, 2012 … Fisker
Karma Fire, Woodside,
CA – Photo Courtesy of Aaron Wood A … If only a few more of these
cars explode, you can totally forget
about …
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/
2012/ 08/
second-fisker-karma-burns-did-ev1volt-engineer-predict-cause/
– View
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DailyTech
– Round Two: Fisker
Karma Goes Up
in Flames in CaliforniaAug
13, 2012 … Yet another Fisker
Karma has gone up
in smoke, making this the second … A Fisker
Karma driver from Woodside,
California parked his hybrid at the ….. is an intercooler coupler
blowing off and making a sound like a
gunshot.
http://www.dailytech.com/
Round+Two+Fisker+Karma+Goes+Up+in+Flames+in+California/
article25389.htm – View
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DST-LAT
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TESLA
PATENTS, FILED WITH FEDS, SHOW MUSK KNEW CARS WERE UNSAFE!
TESLA
knew their car was unsafe and says so in their own patent filings.
This, alone, says Musk was lying. The extreme military
tank-type
“ballistic
shield”
measures called for in their patent, below, are shocking proof that
they knew how awful lithium ion is the way they use it. In another
Tesla patent, Tesla says, in THEIR words filed with the feds:
““Thermal
runaway is of major concern since a single incident can lead to
significant property damage and, in some circumstances, bodily harm
or loss of life. When a battery undergoes thermal runaway, it
typically emits a large quantity of smoke, jets of flaming liquid
electrolyte, and sufficient heat to lead to the combustion and
destruction of materials in close proximity to the cell. If the cell
undergoing thermal runaway is surrounded by one or more additional
cells as is typical in a battery pack, then a single thermal runaway
event can quickly lead to the thermal runaway of multiple cells
which, in turn, can lead to much more extensive collateral damage.
Regardless of whether a single cell or multiple cells are undergoing
this phenomenon, if the initial fire is not extinguished immediately,
subsequent fires may be caused that dramatically expand the degree of
property damage. For example, the thermal runaway of a battery within
an unattended laptop will likely result in not only the destruction
of the laptop, but also at least partial destruction of its
surroundings, e.g., home, office, car, laboratory, etc. If the laptop
is on-board an aircraft, for example within the cargo hold or a
luggage compartment, the ensuing smoke and fire may lead to an
emergency landing or, under more dire conditions, a crash landing.
Similarly, the thermal runaway of one or more batteries within the
battery pack of a hybrid or electric vehicle may destroy not only the
car, but may lead to a car wreck if the car is being driven or the
destruction of its surroundings if the car is parked.”
Plus
this other Tesla patent which says you need to, essentially, be in a
military tank to drive a Tesla safely. Patent calls for “Ballistic
Shielding” to keep drivers & passengers alive
!!!!:
http://www.patentlens.net/patentlens/patents.html?patnums=US_8286743#tab_1
HJ-
BOST
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Per
SME, lithium ion has blown up in products over 2000 times more often
than any other energy storage.
Lead
acid batteries, gasoline, hydrogen, nickel metal hydride, and all
other product energy storage technologies COMBINED
have NOT blown up as much as lithium ion
has gone thermal in cars, airplanes, cell phones, computers, data
centers, tablets, backup power systems and other systems. People have
died in some of these incidents. Planes have crashed. Homes have been
set on fire. People have been horribly burned. It is not OK to let
lithium ion investors buy the news media and shut down the articles
about these dangers.
Hj,
WSJ
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Please
Send This open letter to the German Federal Motor Transport
Authority, or Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA):
Regarding:
Your recent Tesla “safety declaration”.
Dear German
Federal Motor Transport Authority:
It is quite surprising
to hear that your organization has declared the Tesla completely safe
without engaging in full due diligence. It makes it appear like
someone got bribed. We certainly hope that Deutsche Bank staff’s
substantial positions in Tesla held no bearing. We see that Deutsche
Bank staff were just indicted for massive securities fraud and we
hope that is just a coincidence.
Numerous organizations
and experts have provided data showing that the car is not safe. The
statistics, historical facts about lithium ion, and actual evidence
point to the opposite conclusion. Many websites, including:
http://lithium-ion.weebly.com
and others provide rather contrary evidence. Tesla’s own patent
documents state that the car is not safe. The Chevy Volt was recalled
for far less battery issues with lithium ion.
There are
over 200 safety concerns that can be provided to you in a documented
report. America has not even started their safety investigation and
has requested a deep set of technical documents from Tesla. Did your
agency request such documents?
The members of the public
hereby request publication of the identities of the reviewers, the
methods and analysis methods they employed, the read-out of their
data and the conclusive, specific data that the research was based
upon. Here is a link to a much more overt investigation you might
want to
review:
http://somo1.com/2013/12/06/tesla-safety-report-vers-1-05-public-wiki-produced-for-nhtsa-and-other-governmental-agencies/
Sincerely,
XXX
Please
feel free to send your own version to Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt
(KBA) at:
pressestelle@kba.de
and
at this link:
http://www.kba.de/cln_031/nn_540136/EN/Service__en/Contact/Contact__node__en.html?__nnn=true
and
by hard-copy mail to:
Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt
Stabsstelle
(Office of Interdepartmental functions)
Mr. Thomas Meyer
24932
Flensburg
ki- ggt
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German
Tesla “Safety Review” exposed as “Sham”!
MORE
HERE>>>
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NHTSA
Tesla Public Wiki Safety Report is
HERE>>>
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On
Elusive Tesla battery facts . More
HERE>>>
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Is
SolarCity’s use of Tesla batteries unsafe for homes and for
Solarcity?. More
HERE>>>
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Tesla
challenged by auto safety research group to pass the safety tests
listed
HERE>>>
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Did
Tesla bankers at Deutsche Bank order German’s to give Tesla a
wave-through on safety review that never actually happened?
More
HERE>>>
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Samsung
exploding Lithium ion Galaxy COVER-UP Expose proves Danger of Lithium
ion! Lithium ion and Cover-Ups seem to go hand-in-hand. Samsung
tries to silence user whose S4 caught fire, it doesn’t go over
well
Brad
Sams0
Oh Samsung, you tried to have a YouTube
video pulled after it showed a Galaxy
S4 that caught fire while charging but this is about to blow up
in your PR and legal teams face after you sent a ‘hush’ document
to the user.
Here’s the deal, YouTube user GhostlyRich
posted a video on YouTube in early December that showed that his
Samsung Galaxy S4 caught fire while charging. While the battery did
not explode (thankfully) you can clearly see the charging port is
burnt. To no surprise, a burnt charging point rendered the device
useless and seeing that the Phone is still under warranty, you would
think Samsung would simply exchange the device and make good with the
consumer to fix the issue.
Wrong. What Samsung
has done, foolishly, is sent the user a document saying that they
will exchange his defective device only after he pulls his initial
video from YouTube. If Samsung was unaware of how the Internet works,
it’s about to find out that trying to quiet the user will result in
a black eye for the company.
Yes, we can understand why a
company would want keep this type of incident quiet but anyone who
has a basic understanding of the Internet will tell you that once
it’s posted to the web, there is no way to delete it. Sure,
removing the video might keep it a bit quieter, but that would likely
only raise more suspicion in the long run with the followers of that
YouTube channel.
Samsung has goofed up big time as the
original YouTube video, at the time of this posting, had 45,000 views
and the video showing the Samsung demand letter, well, it has over
277,000 views.
The video discussing the letter and the
incident is posted above and is worth a watch. It goes to show what
Samsung will do anything to keep its S4 issues off the radar but in
this case, it has completely backfired. Not to mention that having to
sign a contract to execute a warranty is borderline unethical for the
circumstances of this
incident.
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Germany
Clears Tesla Of Fire Probe…?????
Was
it a real probe?
Tue
Dec 3, 2013
(Business Insider) The German Federal Motor
Transport Authority, Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA) has concluded an
investigation into three recent Tesla Model S fires and found “no
manufacturer-related defects,” Tesla said today.
In a
press release, Tesla said it provided the KBA with relevant data on
the accidents, and received a letter saying “no further measures
under the German Product Safety Act [Produktsicherheitsgesetz
(ProdSG)] are deemed necessary.”
In November, the
National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened
an investigation into the three fires. Tesla said it has “requested”
the process, but NHTSA Administrator told a House panel that was
untrue, according to The Detroit News.
That investigation
is ongoing, but at least the Germans have been placated.
If
you woke up this morning and read this, as I did, upon seeing TSLA up
6% before the open and my puts reversing lower on this “news”,
you could be forgiven if your first impression was, “when the hell
did Germany open an investigation?”
You see, I remember
being told about the investigation being conducted by the NHTSA, the
US based auto safety agency. I remember they opened an investigation
following three fires, two of which occurred in the US, and the
remaining one in Mexico. Barely a few weeks ago…
But
it’s funny, as I don’t recall there ever being an announcement of
a German investigation. It must have got lost under the Blankenship
resignation announcement.
In fact, swinging over to
Tesla’s Investor Press Releases – it’s astounding – but it
seems completely devoid of any bad news at all. Not even a mention of
the US based investigation, much less a German one, or a peep about
the VP of sales leaving the company.
Meanwhile, in the
real world, real men and women are throwing their money into this
company, shaking off oversold conditions on a hard bounce. And class
action lawsuits are raining from the sky. I’ve mostly been thinking
those lawsuits were warrantless before now, but if this is how Tesla
handles communications, I’m not so sure.
This isn’t a
game, people.
Mr. Cain Thaler
Stock advice in actual
English.
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If
GM had to do a recall for a potential thing, why didn’t Tesla have
to do one for an actual thing? (Hint: Bribes)
“GM
to Call Back 8,000 Chevrolet Volt to Strengthen Battery Pack
Michael
Graham Richard
Transportation
/ Cars @ Treehugger
The
saga continues! After some Chevy
Volt battery fire issues
during testing and GM offering Volt owners to buy back their cars or
loan them replacements, we learn that that GM has decided to not take
any chances; it is supposedly about to announce a call back of 8,000
Volt electric cars.
The
Associated Press only writes: “A person briefed on the matter says
General Motors will ask Volt owners to bring their electric cars into
dealers to strengthen the structure around the batteries.” We
should have more details later today, but if you own a Volt, expect
to be contacted by your dealer and to have to bring them you car for
some strengthening of the structure protecting the battery
pack.”
###
See
image below.
Even though Chevy Volt batteries are contained deep within the body
and chassis of the car, GM still
had to do a recall to cover the lithium ion batteries up in
even more steel.
Tesla
lithium
ion batteries are fully exposed at the edges
and
bottom of the car.
It should not be possible for NHTSA to NOT
require a recall unless
someone is paying someone off.
Is Musk “Convinced
there will be no recall”
because Rahm told him so?
(C) GM
The
Tesla
Battery pack has TONS more impact points
than a Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf or other car. It has less shielding
density per Lithium Ion Square inches than any car. The batteries are
very close to the edge and exterior of the car without protection
equal to the known, and calculated, destruction potential. That is
why Tesla’s blow up more often:
The Tesla battery box
wall is a mere breath away from a deadly road surface moving with
tremendous force and the lower edge of the car where an impact is
most likely to occur. Thousands of pounds of shock force will
instantly do things to those batteries that will be: Awesome
in a frightening and fire-explosion kinda way.
KF
& GG
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Investigators
would like to hear from you if you have information or tips:
Safety
Investigations:
http://www.nhtsa.gov/Contact
With
a copy
to:
public.affairs@dot.gov
http://www.autosafety.org/fileacomplaint
Criminal
Investigations:
https://tips.fbi.gov/
with
a copy
to:
askdoj@usdoj.gov
antitrust.complaints@usdoj.gov
https://wb-gop-oversight.house.gov/
Chairman
Barbara Boxer
Senate Select Committee on Ethics
220 Hart
Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Fax:
(202) 224-7416
Please send them any helpful tips or just a
kind note of encouragement!
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Incriminating
New Evidence!
Corporate
testing videos
have now been uncovered showing mice in a glass box exposed to a
single burning Tesla Lithium
ion cell and then exposed to a single burning Tesla Lithium 2
inch ion battery with a section of Tesla car body plastic and metal
burning. After the horrid
results,
the mouse bodies were tested for toxins. Needless to say, none of the
results were good. U.S. Government MSDS documents reveal the toxic
vapor danger from these batteries was fully
documented
outside of DOE, yet never discussed by staff. Federal MSDS documents,
from multiple federal agencies, specifically
state
that the Tesla lithium ion batteries are deadly
toxic when burning.
DF-
NYP
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Tesla
fires Can’t be ignored no matter what the CEO
says
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/tesla-fires-cant-be-ignored-no-matter-what-teslas-ceo-claims-112013.html
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Tesla
Batteries Act Like Solid “rocket fuel” when they ignite!
As
of 11/6/2013 Tesla had said there were only 3 fires, yet social media
shows there were many more fires. Those other fires have been
documented in photos and videos and Elon Musk has said he
has tracking chips
on all of the cars so Tesla had to have known about all of the other
fires. The reality of the documentation and the statements from Tesla
seem to clearly show a cover-up. Lithium
ion in a metal box burns
like solid rocket fuel
when it gets going in a fire. Musk would have known this since he
started SPACE X:
A rocket company! (Which keeps having technical
failures)
RS-LAT
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Additional
Tesla Fire News Expose
Links:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/automobiles/stalled-on-the-ev-highway.html?pagewanted=1
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2013/05/29/tesla-just-another-taxpayer-boondoggle/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-03/how-many-cars-must-tesla-sell-interactive-calculator-has-scary-answer
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-29/greenback-revolution-why-tesla-just-distraction
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-28/great-tesla-rotation-institutions-retail-bag-holders
http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2013/nov/25/tesla-fire-inquiry-focus-battery-20131125/?business-national
http://cornellsun.com/blog/2013/11/26/fires-problems-persist-for-tesla/
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Bad
Engineering
It
was an idiotic
move
to use thousands of lithium
ion consumer flashlight-type batteries,
that were never made to be used in a car,
to create an entire bed of toxic explosive material and put it just a
hair breadth away from a surface that can puncture, explode and
inflame it. That surface, the road, is trying to puncture, bump, and
destroy the undercarriage, of every car, every inch of every mile of
every road across the country. Also, the batteries are so close to
almost all of the outside edges of the car, that puncture damage in a
crash is certain. They decided to CHEAP
OUT
with the flashlight batteries yet they charge buyers insane amounts
of money for a car with a growing
list of technical failures.
What were these people thinking?
HD- SME engineer
Update:
See Fluoride controversy (below) for explanation about why someone
would do this:
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Understanding
Tesla’s Life Threatening Battery Decisions
SEEKING
ALPHA- John Peterson
Nov 22 2013
In the last couple
of months, electric cars from Tesla Motors (TSLA) have had three
collision-related battery fires that were widely covered by the
media. Last week, the NHTSA decided to conduct a formal investigation
of these incidents. While Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk immediately went on
the offensive arguing that Tesla’s BEVs have a lower fire risk than
gasoline powered cars, the question an increasing number of investors
are asking is “Why has Tesla had three battery fires in a fleet of
17,000 BEVs while Nissan hasn’t had any fires in its fleet of over
90,000 BEVs?” The answer is simple. Tesla’s battery decisions
significantly increased battery risks for both the customer and the
company. MORE…
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Musk
Claim of Fewer Tesla Fires Questioned in MIT Report
Bloomberg
By
Angela Greiling Keane & Jeff Green
Tesla Motors Inc.
(TSLA) cars have caught
fire caused by collisions more often
than gasoline-powered vehicles, according to a Massachusetts
Institute of Technology report rebutting
assertions by Elon Musk,
the electric-car maker’s chief executive officer.
Because
only 4 percent of vehicle fires are caused by collisions, Tesla’s
Model S sedan, with a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, is
statistically more likely to catch fire than are cars with gasoline
tanks,
wrote Kevin Bullis, senior editor for energy for MIT Technology
Review.
Update:
http://muckrack.com/link/tdT2/musk-claim-of-fewer-tesla-fires-questioned-in-mit-report
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Disco
Inferno- Burn Baby Burn
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ELON
MUSK CANCELS HIS CROSS COUNTRY DRIVE IN A TESLA FOR FEAR OF HIS LIFE
AND THE SAFETY OF HIS KIDS
Didn’t
Elon say he was just about to make a cross country drive in a
Tesla?
Elon
Musk
to
Drive
a Tesla
Across
the U.S. — But the …
Elon
Musk
is planning to drive
from Los Angeles to New York using only a Model S and Tesla
Superchargers. But he’ll have to wait until the end of the year
before the automaker’s quick charging network is actually built
out. According to Musk,
the trip will take six days and cover 3,200
miles
wired.com/autopia/2013/09/musk-cross-country/
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IRONIC
TESLA BILLBOARD
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NOW
look at what is blowing up!!!. THIS JUST HAPPENED IN the middle of
all this too!!!!: Massive numbers of OTHER Lithium Ion devices
blowing up.
iPad
Air
explodes,
erupting with smoke and flames in retail …
The
appeal of Apple’s sleek and slender new iPad
Air
is significantly diminished when it explodes
and pours out flames along with so much smoke that the fire
department has to be called in to extinguish the
blaze.
news.yahoo.com/ipad-air-explodes-erupting-smoke-flames…
iPad
Air
EXPLODES
leading to mobile phone shop evacuation …
Shop
is evacuated and fire brigade are called after brand new iPad
Air
EXPLODES
and fills mobile phone store with smoke . Sparks and smoke flew from
device released on November
1
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2492189/iPad-Air-EXPLODES-…
iPad
Air
EXPLODES
INTO FIREBALL as terrified fanbois flee …
iPad
Air
EXPLODES
INTO FIREBALL as terrified fanbois flee Apple Store Charred
fondleslab removed by Apple minion for
testing
theregister.co.uk/2013/11/08/ipad_air_explodes_into_fireb…
iPad
Air
explodes
at retail store in Australia
An
Apple iPad
Air
reportedly exploded at a Vodafone retail store in Canberra,
Australia, prompting the need to call the fire department to put out
the flames and
smoke.
vr-zone.com/articles/ipad-air-explodes-retail-store…
iPad
Air
explodes
in Vodafone store | CellularChief
A
Vodafone store in Canberra, Australia was evacuated and firefighters
were called in after the explosion of an Apple iPad
Air
inside the store resulted in the release of smoke that filled the
retail
establishment.
cellularchief.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/ipad-air-explodes-in-vondafo…
iPad
air
explodes
in Australia, fire department had to be …
iPad
air
explodes
in Australia, fire department had to be called in to contain the
smoke Posted by Stefan Constantinescu on Nov 08, 2013 | No Comments
»
iphonehacks.com/2013/11/ipad-air-explodes-australia-fir…
What
kind of battery did they put in the Apple ipad
AIR?
LITHIUM!!!!!!!!
Randy
Oates- DC
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TESLA
MATH:
If
one IPAD can
take out a whole store
and a Tesla has the equivalent of thousands
of IPAD batteries in each car, how many homes in your neighborhood
can a Tesla take out?
I want my neighbor to keep his Tesla
at the office. Musk has made a big point out of saying, in recent
interviews, that the new fires were not “spontaneous”
thereby admitting
he knows that Lithium
Ion CAN go off spontaneously
like it did in the Boeing
planes
and with many other electronics in the last 10 years.
GH-
Boston G
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EXPOSE:
Here is a video made by Tesla’s own employees about their
product:
You
can also see it
at:
http://tinypic.com/r/7295hs/6
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WATCH
THIS VIDEO OF A TESLA BURNING AND BLOWING UP BECAUSE OF BATTERY
UNHAPPINESS.
http://m.digitaltrends.com/cars/second-tesla-model-s-catches-fire-critical-crash-mexico/
“Is
the beginning of an onslaught of fiery Tesla Model S wrecks?
A
second Tesla Model S reportedly caught fire last week after crashing
through a concrete wall in Mexico.
According
to Mexican paper Progreso Hoy (by way of Business Insider), a Model S
owner was speeding when he lost control of the car and went through a
concrete wall and then into a large tree.
You can see the
resulting fire in the video below.
The man was apparently
not seriously injuries and walked away from the incident.
Here
is an official recount from Tesla:
“We were able to
contact the driver quickly and are pleased that he is safe. This was
a significant accident where the car was traveling at such a high
speed that it smashed through a concrete wall and then hit a large
tree, yet the driver walked away from the car with no permanent
injury. He is appreciative of the safety and performance of the car
and has asked if we can expedite delivery of his next Model S. The
first reported Model S fire occurred earlier this month when a
Washington State driver struck an object in the road, which caused a
fire in the front portion of the car, beneath the carpeted trunk
area. It appears the Mexican Model S fire also began in the forward
section of the car.” ”
Manu Fs. –
Obsido
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The
Lithium ion profiteering scam.
Dump,
grab the money and run.
FISKER
lithium Ion batteries burst into flames at the drop of a hat. This is
now well-known.
Telsa and Fisker funding with tax dollars was more about funding
battery company deals for their investors than anything else. Lithium
Ion Batteries blow up in Boeing’s, Tesla’s and they just blow up.
That is why TSA does not allow liquid on airplanes. That is why AT&T
eliminated Lithium Ion in its server racks. EVERYBODY knows that
lithium ion blows up and releases deadly chemicals, why is this
cover-up still going on? Oh, I See:
Profits and kickbacks!
Everyone
was warned about this. Over 100 published reports from major
universities and federally funded studies have now been sourced and
posted showing that this had been guaranteed to happen by some of the
top scientists in the world prior
to Tesla receiving DOE money. Who owns all these battery companies?
Watch for the WESTON
REPORT from a major Huffington Post Journalist
which links every investor in TESLA to all of their political
connections and influences.
Invest in Tesla and you will get tracked by numerous investigative
reporters.
Dan
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THERE
HAVE BEEN A VAST NUMBER OF ADDITIONAL LITHIUM ION FIRES. SEE THESE
LINKS.
See
these other articles and third party studies:
THESE
ARE NOT THE ONLY FIRES, LOOK AT THESE LINKS:
MORE
TESLA
FIRES
http://lithium-ion.weebly.com
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Lithium
ion blowing up even more than usual?
Does
anyone know how electromagnetic energy affects this Lithium Ion
chemical? Since we now see that IPADs and other phones are blowing
up, I wonder if EMF shifts set it off? In which case, sticking it the
biggest electronic appliance might not be a good
idea.
Semmer-
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Tesla
Failures push Auto Industry to Fuel Cell
Cars
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/11/10/tesla-motors-stubbornly-fights-the-future-of-green/
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/11/22/motor-money-testy-times-for-tesla-and-fuel-cells-a.aspx
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Boeing
Lithium Ion Batteries Blew Up for No GOOD Reason too:
Class
action law firms have begun research to determine the potential for
Tesla fire-related cases.
A
number of specialized law firms, who only produce class actions for
consumer groups, have contracted exploratory research to look at the
viability for class actions on behalf of Consumers who were near
Tesla Fires, Employees who were near Tesla Fires, Tesla Factory
employees, First Responders who were near Tesla fires, and related
matters.
T- Law 360
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Tesla
shares slip more on reports of third fire, other
car problems
By
Jerry Hirsch- LA Times
November 7, 2013
By
Jerry HirschNovember 7, 2013, 8:39 a.m.
Tesla
Motors shares continued to fall Thursday as the automaker
confirmed a third fire in one of its high-end electric cars and a
major auto reviewer pointed out problems with its Model S luxury
hatchback.
The 9%, or $13.40, decline in mid-morning
trading to $137.76 followed a 15% plunge in the shares Wednesday
after the automaker said limited supplies of batteries were hampering
sales and that it was spending heavily on research and development to
design new models. Tesla shares have been on a run for most of the
year, rising about 400% before this reversal.
Car shopping
website Edmunds.com said its 2013 Model S was “making an ominous
noise under acceleration and deceleration. It originates from the
rear of the car and seems to be getting worse.”
It is a
complaint that’s also starting to show up on Tesla’s owners
forum, an online discussion group hosted by the automaker for drivers
of its cars.
“Mine had that and it got bad at 70 mph,”
said one owner, posting under the “mortgagebruce” moniker.
He
said Tesla had to replace the drive unit twice to fix the
problem.
Tesla also replaced the drive unit on the Edmunds
car, but declined to tell the company what caused the problem. It
also replaced the driver door mechanism because of another problem.
The car has just less than 11,000 miles on the road.
“We’re
not sure what to think about the fact that both of these repairs were
completed with just one overnight stay,” said Mike Schmidt,
Edmunds’ vehicle testing manager. “Maybe the dealer is really on
the ball. Maybe the supply chain is short. Or maybe the parts are
readily available because they’ve seen these before.”
Tesla
spokeswoman Liz Jarvis Shean said she was not familiar with the
Edmunds complaint.
Meanwhile, another Model S electric car
caught fire Wednesday near Smyrna, Tenn., following a crash. This was
the third Model S to have caught fire in the last five weeks. One
burned near Seattle and another in Mexico. Both cars were in crashes
and the fires injured no one.
Normally, car fires are not
significant events that influence investors. There are about 150,000
annually, according to the National Fire Protection Assn. However,
safety officials have been tracking fires in electric cars, as well
as computers and other equipment, out of concern that the lithium-ion
battery systems might be fire-prone.
Earlier this year,
federal regulators grounded Boeing
787 planes for four months after batteries on two planes overheated,
with one catching on fire. Boeing later ordered modifications to the
jets to increase ventilation and insulation near the batteries, but
the company and investigators never determined the root cause of the
overheating.
The National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration reviewed the Tesla fire in
Seattle and concluded it was caused by the accident rather than a
vehicle defect.
Tesla said it contacted the driver of the
car in Tennessee and noted he was not injured and “believes the car
saved his life. Our team is on its way to Tennessee to learn more
about what happened in the accident.”
“The problem is
that we have three fires in six weeks,” said Karl Brauer, senior
analyst at Kelley
Blue Book, the car information company. “For a company with a
stock price based as much or more on image than financials, those
recurring headlines are highly damaging.”
The Palo Alto
automaker said Tuesday it posted a loss of $38.5 million, or 32 cents
per share, in the third quarter. That compares to a loss of $110.8
million, or $1.05 per share, in the same period a year earlier.
Now that it is delivering cars, revenue grew to $431 million from
just $50.1 million a year earlier.
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Science
Question
With
all of these lithium ion cars, IPADs and phones just blowing up and
going off more and more, does the increased prevalence of WIFI,
broadcast signals and atmospheric radiation and other ion drivers
make Lithium Ion increasingly more likely to go off?
DDF
"over a milion failures of
this chemistry and these batteries.."
Go to
http://www.ntsb.gov/
and demand action:
"LITHIUM ION
BATTERIES ARE MADE OVERSEAS BY CHEAP LABOR WHERE OSHA CAN'T WATCH.
POOR PEOPLE MAKE LITHIUM ION BATTERIES OFF SHORE WHERE THEY ARE NOT
TOLD ABOUT THE TOXIC CANCER, LIVER AND LUNG DISEASES THEY GET FROM
THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS. SILICON VALLEY VC'S PUSH
LITHIUM ION BECAUSE THEY CAN MAKE A HUGE PROFIT ON THE CHEAP
LABOR BUILDING A BATTERY THAT SELF DESTRUCTS BUILT BY WORKERS
WHO DIE FROM TOXIC POISONING. CHINESE, MALAY, MEXICAN AND OTHER
WORKERS, SHOULD FILE CLASS ACTION LAWSUITS AGAINST SILICON VALLEY
VC'S WHO PUSH THESE BATTERIES."
TESLA
EXPLODE IN
FLAMES:
http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/524c7d5369bedd842edc40a0-482-361/tesla-58.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFl8v1lxH0k
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October
2, 2013, 4:27 PM
Tesla Motors Inc. TSLA
shares tanked after a video of a Model S on fire
circulated on the web, prompting the electric car company to move
quickly to douse the flames of bad publicity.
Elizabeth
Jarvis-Shean, director of global communications at Tesla, confirmed
that the vehicle engulfed in flames was indeed a Tesla but stressed
that the driver walked away without
injuries.
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Tesla
Issues Statement On Fiery Car Crash That Caused The Stock To
Tank
Mamta Badkar Oct. 2, 2013, 3:45 PM
13,469 11
tesla
Aj Gill via
YouTube
Tesla's stock was down over 7% to a low of $175.40
today, but pared some of its losses to close down 6.24%
at$180.95.
It appears that shares began to tumble in the
last half hour on reports that a Tesla Model S car caught fire on
Washington State Route 167.
Some speculated that the video
highlights problems with the car's battery. Though others rushed to
point out that the battery is located in the back of the
car.
--------------------------------------------------
"Media
finds that "Safety Investigators" (read "SHILLS")
are bribed by VC's and lithium holding companies
to say "nothing to see here", "lithium batteries are
probably ok". Beware of NTSB "consultant's" and
"investigators" who are being bribed, offered
after-politics high pay jobs, called up by bribed congressional staff
with "suggestions", given sports tickets, handed stock in
certain ventures and other bribes. Many of the "investigators"
need to be put under investigation themselves!!!! When you see an
investigator talking about how lithium ion is a wonderful thing,
investigate them!"
The following are a
variety of quotes, from across the web, demonstrating the critical
nature of this public safety issue:
“Lithium
ion batteries are blowing up, starting fires and, generally,
destroying people’s homes, cars, electronics and physical health.
Boeing was
just ordered to stop flying the 787 Dreamliner
because it's Lithium ion batteries are catching fire
spontaneously."
"A group of silicon valley
venture capitalists forced/leveraged the government to buy and
pay for these specific batteries, that they have stock in, in
order to benefit their profit margins. Other batteries don’t
have these problems. They knew about this from day one but put
greed ahead of safety. There are thousands and thousands of reports
of spontaneous lithium ion fires but the VC's who back lithium
ion pay to keep this information hushed up.
Millions of
these batteries have been recalled for fire risk. The VC's tried
to push as many as they could before they got caught. Now they
are caught. These VC's own stock in lithium mining companies
too."
"Here is the Fisker Karma after it got wet
and the batteries blew up. These batteries blow up JUST FROM GETTING
WET! ALL of these burned up hulks are brand new $100,000.00+ cars
that just blew up and torched everything around them just because
they got wet! How bad do you want a Fisker or Tesla now? Fisker's
insurance company is balking at paying for this saying: "You
knew this would happen".
These links show vast sets
of Fisker electric cars that burst into flames just because they
GOT
WET:
http://updates.jalopnik.com/post/34669789863/more-than-a-dozen-fisker-karma-hybrids-caught-fire-and
http://green.autoblog.com/2012/08/12/fisker-flambe-second-karma-spontaneously-combusts-w-video/
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/11/05/how-sandy-may-have-set-17-plug-in-hybrids-on-fire/
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/fisker-karma-spontaneously-combusts/
http://cbdakota.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/fisker-karmas-catch-fire-following-inundation-by-sandy/
http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/12/fisker-karma-hyrbid-ev-second-fire/
http://www.techfever.net/2012/08/fisker-karma-hybrid-ev-ignites-while-parked/
http://evmc2.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/fisker-karma-fire-report/
http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/karma-burns-owners-mansion/
http://www.carbuzz.com/news/2012/11/1/Karmas-Ignite-After-Hurricane-Floods-Newark-Port-7711437/
There are
vast sets of other links proving the point.
Look at this: We were just sent a link that our website
showed up in this movie:
Here is another link to
the move at: http://tinypic.com/r/7295hs/6
HERE IS THE BATTERY YOU
COULD HAVE BEEN SITTING ON TOP OF IN A TESLA
THIS IS THE TESLA MAGIC
CARPET OF DOOM. THIS WHOLE THING IS FULL OF LITHIUM. YOUR WHOLE
FAMILY IS SUPPOSED TO SIT ON TOP OF THIS!!!
TESLA HAS TO TEST THEIR
BATTERIES IN a BLAST CHAMBER!!!!!!!:
IF TESLA SAYS THIS THING
IS SO SAFE WHY DO THEY TEST IT IN A STEEL ENCLOSED EXPLOSION ROOM
WITH WIRES COMING IN THROUGH BLAST HOLES!!!!??????
"TESLA ELECTRIC CARS HAVE
6800 CHANCES OF "GOING THERMAL".
"TESLA ELECTRIC
CAR BATTERIES ARE MORE LIKELY TO BLOW UP." SAYS STANFORD
ENGINEER, "USING LITHIUM ION IN AN ELECTRIC CAR DOUBLES THE
CHANCES IT WILL EXPLODE OR GO THERMAL BECAUSE AN ELECTRIC CAR PUSHES
IT FURTHER THAN ANYTHING ELSE. BOEING HAD MANY SAFETY CIRCUITS AND
EVEN THOSE FAILED. THERE IS NO WAY THE TESLA SAFETY CIRCUITS WILL NOT
EVENTUALLY FAIL"
"Tesla Electric cars
have 6800 lithium ion batteries wedged into a box. This can create a
repercussive thermal event that can set the whole car off. The TESLA
18650 batteries can be seen exploding in multiple YOUTUBE videos. It
is NOT TRUE that they are "an entirely different battery"
they are the same chemical compound that
blows up."
"A direct quote from Tesla's
patent application, below. Tesla KNEW this was going to
happen and never adequately warned anybody. Tesla wrote these words
in the federal papers they filed yet they never showed these words to
any buyers :
"Thermal runaway is of major
concern since a single incident can lead to significant property
damage and, in some circumstances, bodily harm or loss of life.
When a battery undergoes thermal runaway, it typically emits a
large quantity of smoke, jets of flaming liquid electrolyte, and
sufficient heat to lead to the combustion and destruction of
materials in close proximity to the cell. If the cell undergoing
thermal runaway is surrounded by one or more additional cells as is
typical in a battery pack, then a single thermal runaway event
can quickly lead to the thermal runaway of multiple cells which, in
turn, can lead to much more extensive collateral damage.
Regardless of whether a single cell or multiple cells are
undergoing this phenomenon, if the initial fire is not
extinguished immediately, subsequent fires may be caused
that dramatically expand the degree of property damage. For
example, the thermal runaway of a battery within an unattended
laptop will likely result in not only the destruction of the
laptop, but also at least partial destruction of its surroundings,
e.g., home, office, car, laboratory, etc. If the laptop is on-board
an aircraft, for example within the cargo hold or a
luggage compartment, the ensuing smoke and fire may lead to an
emergency landing or, under more dire conditions, a crash
landing. Similarly, the thermal runaway of one or more batteries
within the battery pack of a hybrid or electric vehicle may
destroy not only the car, but may lead to a car wreck if the car is
being driven or the destruction of its surroundings if the car
is parked."
"WTF!!!!!!
Tesla's
own staff have now admitted that once a lithium ion fire gets started
in one of their cars, it is almost impossible to extinguish burning
lithium ion material. This is Telsa’s own words in THEIR patent
filing, (You can look it up online) saying that the risk is
monumental. Tesla has 6800 lithium ion batteries, any one of
which can “go thermal” and start a chain reaction! If you look at
all of the referenced YOUTUBE movies you will see how easy it is to
set these things into danger mode."
"Imagine a
car crash with a Tesla where these 6800 batteries get slammed all
over and then exposed to rain, fire hose water, water on the roads,
cooling system liquid.. OMG!! And then if, in that same accident the
other car is a gasoline car… getting burned alive sounds “BAD”!
Telsa is covering up the problems with its batteries."
"Lithium
ion batteries have already crashed a UPS plane and killed
people. Look here:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/dreamliner-fires-spark-new-doubts-about-a-green-energy-technology/article/2519353 "
More
Lithium Ion Battery disasters:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2013/01/24/is-787s-lithium-ion-battery-hazardous-to-boeings-health/
"AS
A DEMONSTRATION OF HOW DANGEROUS LITHIUM IS, NASA IS GOING TO MAKE IT
BURN IN OUTER SPACE:
"If you're along the Eastern Seaboard
tonight, it might be worth your while to look at the sky this
evening. NASA's Wallops Flight Facility is scheduled to launch
a sounding rocket that will release "two red-colored
lithium vapor trails in space."
As
Space.com reports, those trails might be seen across the
Mid-Atlantic and perhaps as far north as Canada and as far south as
northern Florida. Space.com explains how these trails
will produce a "night sky show:"
"The
sounding rocket that will be used to create the two NASA-made
glowing cloud trails will be a Terrier-Improved Orion.In
this technology test launch, two canisters in the
rocket's payload section will contain solid metal lithium rods
or chips
embedded in a thermite cake. The thermite is
ignited and produces heat to vaporize the lithium.
"Once
the vapor is released in space, it can be detected and
tracked optically. The rocket will eject two streams of
lithium which will be illuminated at high altitudes by the
sun (which will be below the local horizon at ground
level)."
In a
statement, mission project manager Libby West said the launch is
a test flight for two upcoming missions. It'll give scientists a
view of two different methods for creating lithium vapor
trails. By the way, NASA says the "lithium combustion
process poses no threat to the public during the release in
space."
If lithium is so dangerous it will even burn
in space, why are we putting it in our airplanes and
cars???????
Lithium Ion batteries blow up and burn
down commercial building:
http://westhawaiitoday.com/sections/news/nation-world-news/787-battery-blew-%E2%80%9906-lab-test-burned-down-building.html
"Tesla
and Fisker have only sold a few hundred cars, (thank god) because
nobody but dicks want these overpriced eliteist toys. A regular car
company sells hundreds of thousands of cars per model. Every single
Tesla or Fisker sold increases the likelihood of a burn up. Those
burn-ups will affect the homes, cars and lives of the people next
door who never even bought one."
"Go
to http://www.youtube.com and
type into the search window:
“Lithium ion explosion”
or “lithium battery and water” or “lithium ion water” and any
related derivation and you will hundreds of videos about how
dangerous these batteries are. There are numerous videos of Tesla's
18650 batteries blowing up."
"This
article in the LA Times sheds more light of the horrors of Lithium
Ion:
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/18/business/la-fi-dreamliner-battery-20130119
"
"Lithium Ion batteries “go
thermal” in peoples pockets, in your notebook, especially in your
Tesla and Fisker car and everywhere else. There are thousands and
thousands of articles documenting this and there is a cover-up by the
VC’s that fund these things to keep this fact out-of-sight.
Making
Lithium Ion batteries poisons the workers who make them. It is a
dangerous product. Each time the workers, particularly in Asia,
realize they are being poisoned by the factory, they jack up the
product. Outlaw lithium ion batteries. Demand a recall.”
There
are PLENTY of other energy storage solutions that do not involve the
highly compromised Lithium Ion chemistry!"
"Below
are a few samples of HUNDREDS of videos proving that Lithium Ion
Batteries JUST BLOW UP. This is why TSA does not want them, or
liquid, on planes."
Report: Galaxy S 4 Lithium Explosion Burns
Hong Kong Home To The Ground:
A Hong Kong couple have
been displaced after an exploding Samsung Galaxy S 4 smartphone burst
into flames, burning their house to a crisp.
The man,
identified in the original
Xianguo.com report only as Mr. Du, claims that his phone,
battery, and charger were all legitimate Samsung products, but that's
now difficult to confirm since his home and everything in it were
destroyed.
According to the translated report, Du sat on
the living room sofa playing the game "Love Machine" on his
charging GS4 when it suddenly exploded. In the heat of the moment, he
threw the device onto the couch, which caught fire. The flames then
spread to the curtains and the rest of the house, "out of
control," Xianguo said.
Du, his wife, and his dogs
managed to escape the house unscathed; neighbors were temporarily
evacuated as firefighters fought the flames. Almost all of the
couple's furniture and appliances burned to ash, the news site said,
adding that their Mercedes parked outside was also damaged.
Whether
or not the true cause of an entire house fire was a singular 5-inch
smartphone remains to be seen, though a fire department investigation
initially resulted in a report of "no suspicious
circumstances."
Samsung did not immediately respond
to PCMag's request for comment, but told Xianguo that it will "carry
out detailed investigations and tests to determine the cause of the
incident."Last year, a Galaxy S III owner in Dublin was driving
in his car when the
device caught fire. Cell phone safety is increasingly
becoming an issue in Asia, where two cases of iPhone shock occurred
within a week of each other this month. On July 11, a
23-year-old flight attendant with China Southern Airlines was
allegedly
electrocuted when she took a call on her Apple device while
it was charging. She was reportedly using the original charger when
she was killed.
Here is what the Lithium Ion Batteries did
to their home:
Boeing 787 Dreamliner woes put spotlight on lithium
ion battery risks
BY KEN BENSINGER,Los Angeles
Times
Chances are the same kind of battery that twice
caught fire in Boeing 787 Dreamliners in recent weeks is in your
pocket at this very moment.
Lithium ion batteries,
small and powerful, have become the electricity storage device
of choice. They are everywhere — in cellular phones, laptops,
power tools, even cars. They allow us to talk, email and drill
longer than ever possible in the past.
But the
incidents that led to the grounding of the 787 fleet worldwide, and
the decision by Boeing on Friday to temporarily halt all
deliveries of the plane, have highlighted a troubling downside
of these energy-dense dynamos: their tendency to occasionally
burst into flames.
FOR THE RECORD:
Dreamliner batteries: An article in the Jan. 19 Section A on
lithium ion battery safety and the grounding of the Boeing 787
incorrectly described a fire in a Chevrolet Volt automobile. The
battery did not ignite spontaneously; instead it burned after a crash
test damaged the vehicle's cooling system and the test car was left
parked with the battery fully charged, eventually causing it to
overheat. With investigators now working to determine the cause
of the incidents, one on a Dreamliner on a Boston runway, the
other forcing an emergency landing of a 787 in western Japan,
the larger question of lithium ion safety has snapped
into focus.
"Every battery can burn
and every battery can be flammable," said Mike Eskra,
a Milwaukee-based battery development scientist who also works
as a battery fire investigator for insurers. "But lithium
ion batteries are more dangerous because they store more energy.
It's like a firecracker instead of a stick
of dynamite."
The casualty list is
long. In recent years, tens of thousands of laptop batteries have
been recalled due to the risk of fire or explosion. The 400-pound
lithium ion battery on General Motors' cutting-edge electric
car, the Chevrolet Volt, burst into flames seemingly
spontaneously while parked in 2011. And investigators blamed a
cargo hold full of lithium ion batteries for a fire that
caused
a UPS-operated 747 to crash shortly after takeoff from Dubai in
late 2010.
That crash, which killed both pilots,
is one of more than 100 incidents recorded by the Federal
Aviation Administration linking lithium ion batteries to
onboard fires over the last two decades. This month, new rules
took effect limiting the transport of lithium ion batteries in
aircraft. And the FAA had long prohibited use of the technology
in commercial airplanes.
That changed in 2007,
when it granted Boeing permission to use the batteries in the 787
under a number of conditions to ensure safety. For Boeing the lithium
ion advantage was clear.
Thanks to their
chemistry, the rechargeable batteries can store as much energy as
a nickel metal hydride pack that's 50% heavier, while charging
and discharging faster than other battery types. That's made
them attractive for military applications such as the B-2 bomber
and also for use on the International Space Station and the Mars
Rover.
Lithium ion batteries enabled Boeing to swap
out heavy hydraulic systems in the airframe for lightweight
electronics and electric motors to operate systems like
wing de-icers. That's a key reason the Dreamliner burns 20% less
fuel than other wide-body aircraft.
The weight
and power savings are exactly what made lithium ion batteries popular
in other applications. In excess of 95% of mobile phone
batteries worldwide are lithium ion, and without lithium ion,
laptops couldn't run anywhere near as long as they do without a
recharge.
"They completely dominate the
consumer market," said Vishal Sapru, energy and power systems
research manager at consulting firm Frost & Sullivan in
Mountain View, Calif.. He estimates that global sales of lithium
ion batteries reached $14.7 billion last year, up from $9.6
billion in 2009, a 53% increase. Sapru expects the market to
soar to $50.7 billion by 2018. "No other battery chemistries
are growing at that rate."
But lithium ion also
has downsides. The batteries tend to have shorter life spans than
older, more proven battery technologies. And although the price is
falling, lithium ion is still more expensive than other
batteries. Although some carmakers have embraced the technology,
others, such as Toyota, have decided against it. Several makers
of lithium ion auto batteries for electric vehicles have filed
for bankruptcy last year because of weak demand.
Safety
experts also have concerns. Because lithium ion batteries can store
more energy, and discharge it more quickly, than other
batteries, lithium ion cells can get mch hotter than other
technologies in the event of an overcharge or the external
application of a heat source. Larger applications, such as the
63-pound batteries on the 787, incorporate multiple cells and
the heat can spread rapidly from cell to cell, a chain reaction
called "thermal runaway."
And while
other types of batteries use a water-based electrolyte in each cell,
lithium ion relies on a highly flammable solvent. When heated up,
that solvent tends to vaporize, spraying the burnable gas into
the surrounding air. As a result, lithium ion battery fires burn
extremely hot, as high as 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Those conditions
were blamed for an explosion at a General Motors battery testing
lab last April that caused $5 million in damage and sent one
person to the hospital. GM said flammable gas had vented from
an experimental lithium ion battery that heated up during
extreme testing.
"Lithium ion is very
controversial in the safety engineering space," said Brian
Barnett, vice president for battery technology at Tiax, a
technology firm in Lexington, Mass. He spoke last month at a
conference on battery safety in Las Vegas, where more than
three-quarters of the presentations focused on lithium
ion batteries.
The cause of the fires in the two
Dreamliners has still not been determined and neither Boeing nor
the Japanese company that made the batteries, GS Yuasa, have publicly
commented on likely factors. Boeing subjected the batteries on the
plane to thousands of hours of testing and installed numerous safety
systems specific to the batteries.
"We have
high confidence in the safety of the 787 and stand squarely behind
its integrity as the newest addition to our product family,"
Boeing Chief Executive im McNerny said Friday.
Barnett and
others emphasize that it's not uncommon to see problems in relatively
new technologies. But they add that most lithium ion fires are
caused by an external problem, such as a bad circuit or a
software glitch that leads to overcharging. Another common
problem in consumer electronics is the use of low-cost wiring
and other components that can overheat and spark or catch fire
next to the battery itself.
Eskra, the battery
fire investigator, said he's seen fires started by Chinese-made
toys that use lithium ion batteries hooked up to chargers
designed for nickel cadmium r nickel metal hydride batteries.
Manufacturing errors, including allowing tiny metal particles to
contaminate cells, can cause dangerous shorts, although they are
exceedingly rare.
"Somebody tried to cut
corners somewhere," he said, noting that most lithium ion fires
are caused by a tiny part that malfunctioned somewhere along the
line and are easily resolved. "It's a $2 fix, but it takes
half a million dollars in research to
figure out what it
is."
Sometimes the problem is more
persistent. In 2006, Sony announced a global recall of more than
10 million lithium ion laptop batteries used in a variety of
laptop computers after more than a dozen fires, and two years
later issued a second recall.
"This
is a battery type that is only one of hundreds of possible batteries
but this particular type was pushed by a few companies and investors
so they could make money off it at the risk of public injury or
death..."
LITHIUM ION BATTERIES BLOW UP THE
VEHICLES THEY POWER
By Carli Brosseau Arizona Daily
Star
When a test of a lithium-ion battery charger turned
into an inferno at Securaplane Technologies Inc. in 2006,
temperatures reached as high as 1,200 degrees and three waves
of firefighters failed to save the building. An employee of the
Oro Valley company blasted the flaming battery with a fire
extinguisher to no effect. Two hours later, the galvanized
metal roof collapsed, and the 10,000 square-foot building was a
total loss.
It's a fire that federal safety regulators are
taking another look at now, since Securaplane provides two key
battery components to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the
start-power and battery-charger units. Records from local Golder
Ranch Fire Department, the first of three fire departments to respond
to the blaze, describe "an uncontrolled thermal reaction
(that) caused the battery to vent and this venting caused the
ignition to various items and fixtures throughout the test lab
area."
"The electrical technician who was
performing a test on the battery when it exploded likened the
experience to being near a jet after-burner. Electrolytes from inside
the battery were shooting 10 feet into the air, the former
Securaplane employee, Michael Leon, said in an interview Friday. "The
magnitude of that energy is indescribable."
"The
fire stands as a graphic illustration of the power stored
within energy-dense lithium-ion batteries and the potential
consequences if something goes awry. It also highlights the
importance and delicacy of the quality-control measures applied
to a novel - and potentially explosive - technology, a
technology now allowed, under special conditions, to be used as the
main and auxiliary power source of certain aircraft.
The
Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the company's newest and most
energy-efficient plane, uses two lithium-ion batteries. After
two battery-related incidents in the past month, the 50
Dreamliners distributed so far have been grounded."
"Whistleblower:
Dreamliner LITHIUM ION Batteries Could Explode
He
says he was fired after warning about battery problems
By
Christopher Freeburn, InvestorPlace Writer
Boeing‘s
(NYSE:BA) new 787 Dreamliner could end up being a nightmare for
the aircraft giant.
A former senior engineering
technician at Securaplane Technologies, which makes the charging
system for the lithium-ion batteries used in 787 Dreamliners, told
CNBC that the batteries are defective and liable to explode if
they overheat."
"
Lithium-ion batteries are heat intolerant, according to a
potential whistleblower familiar with...
Lithium-ion
batteries are heat intolerant, according to a potential whistleblower
familiar with their technology. "Too much heat on those things,
they will go into a thermal runaway, they will explode."
The informant, a former senior engineering technician of
Securaplane Technologies, was fired in 2007 for repeated
misconduct, but he says it was in retaliation for voicing
concerns about the batteries. The NTSB acknowledges that the
lithium-ion batteries in Boeing's (BA) Dreamliner experienced a
thermal runaway, but insists there's no connection between the
incident and the whistleblower's claims. "
"The Japan Transport Safety Board makes a number
of interim points. This battery, unlike one that burst into
flames in a Japan Airlines 787 earlier in
January, did not
actually ignite. It experienced a thermal runaway, as a result of
a build up of heat, yet the materials affected did not start
burning. While the semantics might escape the casual observer
the safety investigator said:-
“The battery
was destroyed in a process called thermal runaway, in which the heat
builds up to the point where it becomes uncontrollable.
“But
it is still not known what caused the uncontrollable
high temperature”.
In simple language,
uncontrollable rises in temperature will if uncontrolled most
likely result in a fire, including one that can burn through
structural composites and alloys, and prove almost uncontrollable by
fire fighters, even on the ground.
It
took a Boston airport fire brigade detachment 99 minutes to put out
the Japan Airlines fire using equipment unavailable if the
airliner was hours away from an emergency landing strip in the
high arctic or north Pacific, which that particular flight had
only recently traversed before the fire broke out after landing.
he
Japan air safety investigator said the wire supposed to ground
or discharge static electricity build ups in the battery had
been severed meaning it had experienced abnormal levels of
current.
However as also confirmed by the early
stage of the US incident investigation into the Japan Airlines fire,
this large lithium-ion battery had not experienced a voltage
surge, and had so far as flight data recordings could tell, had been
operating normally immediately before the emergency landing.
Expect
the news release in Japan to cause more tension between those who
want the 787s to fly again pending a full understanding of the
causes and cures in these incidents, and independent safety
investigators who will recommend to safety regulators like the
FAA a continuation of the grounding"
Death By Tesla
By
Susan Johnlo For Web Times (Based on actual events)
The
sun glistened off the sleek futuristic body of the six figure Tesla
sports car as it careened around the next curve of the beautiful
Malibu coastal highway.
Below, the Pacific Ocean spread
out to the horizon in an endless carpet of blue, undulating waves and
sparkling wonder.
Nickleback was blaring from the speakers
of the car, the driver’s hair was tossed in the wind, his popped
collar was flapping in the high speed rush of air and his Ray Bans
barely hid his I-own-the-world feeling of delight in the
moment.
Then the gates of hell opened up…
The
car suddenly swerved, it dived straight off the cliff. Did the driver
smell the smoke, or see the flames first? We may never be sure.
Was
the, notoriously, hackable Tesla suddenly taken over by Chinese
hackers, who had found his car IP address on the internet? That is
another question that has yet to be resolved.
What is
certain, is the horrific death that then followed. As investigators,
safety engineers and fire officials detail the sequence of events,
the results require a warning to readers: Do not read further
if you have a weak stomach –
First, lithium
ion battery number 862, in the floor pan of the car, experienced the
collapsing housing of the lightweight aluminum box housing that
surrounded it. The collapsing metal pierced the skin of the first
battery. This was caused by the first rock that the lower corner of
the Tesla floor pan slammed into.
The rapid compression,
and distortion of the 3 inch long Tesla battery caused that battery
to buckle and forced the metal compounds inside, the lithium ion core
battery chemicals, to experience the force as a pyrotechnic trigger.
This, then caused that battery to release vapors, while at the same
time, igniting those vapors like a little hand-grenade.
This
battery had just been struck, ignited and exploded, and in that fire
and explosion it was releasing gases which the driver was inhaling in
his last moments of life. Those gasses have been publicly documented
by The FDA, OSHA, Panasonic , and hundreds of other laboratory-grade
facilities, to be the cause of cancer, liver damage, neurological
damage, fetal damage and other deadly health issues.
If
this driver had not been killed by the fire and explosions, he would
have had a longer, slower set of lethal issues to contend with.
Back
to battery number 862; a few milliseconds after battery number 862
experienced the catastrophic explosion, battery number 863, right
next to it, experienced the same devastating failure. This was
followed by battery number 864, then number 865, then number 866,
milliseconds apart. A chain reaction of self-igniting thermal hell
was underway and no fireman could stop it now, nor, could they stop
it after the crash.
The unstoppable nature of this lithium
ion battery fire, set Malibu Canyon, itself, on fire.
So
these flashlight-type batteries, that every Tesla driver is sitting
on top of, are going off like military grade incendiary devices,
during this crash, one-after-the-other.
These flashlight
batteries were never made to be used in cars. Safety engineers say
that Elon Musk’s decision to use these batteries, in this way, was
based on rapid profit exploitation, and not on proper
engineering.
Be that as it may, we are now mid-way through
the slow motion movie of this crash. The batteries are exploding, one
after the other, the car is plowing through the rocks and debris as
it dives off the cliff. But the horror has only begun. How many
batteries do we have to watch explode in this single vehicle? NEARLY
8000 EXPLODING BATTERIES.
Let us stop and consider this
fact.
Where only one in 40 gasoline tanks, in each regular
car accident, ever explodes. Here, in one car, you have nearly 8000
possibilities of an explosion AND each battery, that explodes, has an
extremely high likelihood of setting off, all the rest, in a chain
reaction. Do you like those odds? You have a 400% better chance of
winning the lottery.
In our slow motion analysis, we have
only crossed the half-way point in the accident. The front of the car
is crumpling, the heavy batteries are being thrown upwards, through
the floor of the car, to cover the driver in exploding lithium metal
particles, and the cockpit of the car is filling up with some of the
most toxic fumes you can legally produce.
Still, the
worst is yet to come.
The special alloys, which Tesla
decided to make its car out of, turn out to interact with the
exploding batteries to cause an effect called alloy conflagration.
The very metal of the Tesla car has now been set on fire by the
massive heat from these exploding batteries. The car has turned into
the public version of a military phosphorous bomb, one of the most
hideous military weapons of all time. This burning metal composition
is worse than napalm, it can burn all the way through your face, your
skull, and any bones in your body. It is a fire that almost nothing
can extinguish.
Molten, flaming metal is dripping on the
driver and it is coming from every side of the car, surrounding him
in a fireball of deadly metal lava.
The car has finally
come to a rest in a fireball. The driver is consumed in a nightmare
of fire, dripping molten metal and deadly toxic smoke. The pain is
beyond comprehension.
He is, in the same moment, burned to
death, asphyxiated and entombed in red hot liquid metal.
The
resulting fire, in the Canyon, is, at first, unstoppable and
threatens the entire community of homes.
The first
responder’s attempts to douse the car fire, only make it worse!
Water, it turns out, makes lithium ion batteries explode all over
again. The car has been filled with a type of battery that mere
bumps, and water, can cause to explode. Let me repeat this for
emphasis: WATER MAKES LITHIUM ION BATTERIES EXPLODE. Not only does
water not put out lithium ion fires, IT MAKES THEM
WORSE!
Hours later, after the car has burned itself out,
the first responders try to recover the body.
The problem
is, they can’t recognize a body. The driver has been burned into an
unrecognizable lump of melted plastic, molten metal and human
flesh.
His lovely drive down the coast ended in a horror
as awful as any nightmare midnight movie.
So this use, of
this battery, in this way, was decided by the very Senators and
billionaire campaign investors who owned the stock in this battery.
If you wonder why a deadly choice, like this, was made about a
battery that already had all of these dangers fully documented, on
federal record; the answer can be found in one word:
Corruption.
This massive oversight, putting the public at
such risk, took place because a kick-back scheme was created by Mr.
Musk, and his campaign finance partners. They chose greed, over
scientific facts. Those chose mining commodity deals, and expediency,
over proper engineering. They chose corruption, over anything
else.
So, when you buy a Tesla, you need to think about
your own safety and the safety of the American political system.
Consider not supporting corruption and consider supporting the safety
of yourself and your family: Buy an Audi!
"One aspect that may
confuse some people relates to the decision to use this particular
type of battery. The danger posed by it has been evident by a lengthy
and documented list of disturbing events in recent years. They
include many thousands of batteries used in laptops being recalled,
because of
determined risks of fire or explosion.
General Motors were also placed in the battery limelight.
In 2011, the 400 pounds Lithium ion battery in their Chevrolet Volt
apparently was subject to spontaneous combustion when it burst into
flames, while reportedly in a parked vehicle. In 2010, a
UPS-operated Boeing 747 crashed just after take-off from Dubai.
Investigators placed the blame on a cargo hold that contained
Lithium ion batteries, for a fire that caused the incident."
A
number of incidents of cell phones with lithium ion batteries
blowing up in peoples pockets, notebook computers blowing up in
peoples briefcases and other shocking fires have been deeply
documented.
FISKERS CARS BLEW UP AND
BURST INTO FLAMES JUST BECAUSE THEIR LITHIUM ION BATTERIES GOT WET
"Here is where they make
some of these batteries, in forced labor camps:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/01/13/china-s-labor-pains.html
Because, as we all know, chinese prostitutes
are the best choice to make the things that keep our airplanes in the
air and our cars on the road. The silicon valley venture capital guys
front these batteries because they have such cheap labor to give them
great profits.. quality control? not so much..."
What Went Wrong With The Electric Car Industry?
Only men seem to start car companies.
Most psychologists say that this is because men see cars as dick
insecurity emblems.
Elon Musk is known to be a wildly
insecure narcissist who feels that he must get every woman, that he
can find, pregnant in order to prove his manhood to his abusive
father, who got his sister pregnant.
Musk embodies the ultimate expression
of ‘car-as-dick’ thinking because Musk was not only molded by his
purse-swinging, kept-woman, mother, abusive father and crooked
brother but also by the Silicon Valley frat boy rape-culture.
Silicon Valley is, of course, the Eden
of modern misogyny and tech-bro douche-baggery.
Musk dragged all of the biggest
assholes from Silicon Valley, The DNC and Goldman Sachs into his Tech
Cartel. Together they created a temporary monopoly in the electric
car industry by exchanging stock market payola with Senators and
White House staff who, in exchange, locked off the electric car and
space industries just for Musk.
But that scheme was not sustainable. It
was amazingly crooked and lucrative but, it could not last. It was
Big Tech’s Roman Empire and it was doomed to fail spectacularly.
Musk counted on Obama and Biden to
stick with his original quid-pro-quo deal to trade government cash
for election rigging via his boyfriends at Google and Facebook. Tesla
was the money conduit for a bunch of political scammery.
Biden and his cheerleader actress front
girl: Jennifer Granholm, bounced into office with a Wizard of Oz
promise to give everybody electric cars. They were so wrong about the
pitfalls of their plan and they hired so many idiot sex freaks and
unicorn fart unaware fools that their scheme blew up...instantly and
literally.
Elon Musk and the Senators he owns: Pelosi, Harris and Feinstein,
will lie, until their dying day about these batteries that they all
own stock in! -
--- Lithium ion batteries: Cause wars, rape and genocide in the
Congo, Afghanistan and Bolivia from the corrupt mining deals involved
with mining lithium and cobalt; are insider trading-owned by ex-CIA
boss Woolsey and DOE Boss Chu; excrete chemicals that mutate fetuses
when they burn; destroy your brain, lungs and nervous system when
they burn; kill the factory workers who make them; cause Panasonic to
be one of the most corrupt companies in the world; poison the Earth
when disposed of; can’t be extinguished by firemen; poison firemen
when they burn; are based on criminally corrupt mining schemes like
URANIUM ONE; Have over 61 toxic chemicals in them; come from an
industry that spends billions on internet shills and trolls used to
nay say all other forms of energy; are insider-trading owned by
corrupt U.S. Senators who are running a SAFETY COVER-UP about their
dangers.
---- Apple products with lithium ion batteries have been exploding
and setting people on fire; over time the chemical dendrites inside
each battery grow worse and increase the chances of explosion as they
age
– LITHIUM ION BATTERIES BECOME MORE AND MORE LIKELY TO EXPLODE
AS TIME GOES ON AND AS THEY AGE; “Bad Guys” have figured out how
to make them explode remotely; have their dangers hidden by CNN and
MSM because pretty much only the DNC people profit from them; are the
heart of Elon Musk’s stock market scam.
---- The Obama Administration promised Silicon Valley oligarchs
the market monopoly on lithium ion batteries and the sabotage of fuel
cells in exchange for campaign financing and search engine rigging;
United States Senators that are supposed to protect us from these
deadly products own the stock market assets of them so they protect
them and stop the FDA, OSHA, DOT and NHTSA from outlawing them. WRITE
YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE AND DEMAND THAT LITHIUM ION BATTERIES BE
MADE ILLEGAL TO SELL! NiCAD and Hundreds of other battery chemistries
DO NOT have all of these problems but Lithium Ion batteries get a
monopoly because of politician insider trading ownerships.
---- A recent fire on U.S. Highway 101 near Mountain View, CA,
burned the driver alive and killed him. In Florida two kids died in a
Tesla, burned alive, screaming in agony. A man died in agony in a
Tesla crash in Malibu that set Malibu Canyon on fire. A young woman,
at the start of life, and her boyfriend were burned alive in their
crashed Tesla.
---- There are many more deaths and crashes than you have heard
about. The deaths and the cover-ups are endless. Senators Dianne
Feinstein, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris and their
associates own the stock in Tesla Motors and/or it’s suppliers and
mining companies and they cover-up and halt investigations and laws
designed to save the public. They, and their crony’s, spend over
$1B a year to shill and troll hype about lithium ion batteries and
cover-up the dangers. Lithium ion EVs are more prone to battery
fires. Experts say that their lithium-ion batteries can fuel hotter
fires that release toxic fumes and are more difficult to put out.
---- Lithium ion fires keep reigniting which explains why it takes
so long and requires copious amounts of water or foam (it is an
electric fire, after all) to smother the flames. Tesla employee
Bernard Tse and his team warned Elon Musk about these dangers in 2008
and they got fired and/or warned to “say nothing” by Musk. Three
top Tesla engineers died in a plane crash next to Tesla offices in
San Carlos after two of them agreed to become whistle-blowers.Elon
Musk exists because he bribed DNC politicians and Senators Feinstein,
Reid, Boxer, Harris, Clinton and Pelosi to give him free taxpayer
cash and government resources from the Dept. of Energy and the Calif
treasury.
---- DOE has been covering-up organized crime activities at DOE in
which DOE funds are being used as a slush-fund to pay off DNC
campaign financiers and to pay for CIA/GPS Fusion-Class attacks on
Silicon Valley business competitors of those DNC campaign financiers
who DOE staff share stock market holdings with. Elon Musk is a
criminal, a mobster, an asshole, a bald fake-hair wearing, plastic
surgery-addicted, douchebag, woman-abusing, sex addicted, tax evader.
---- Musk exploits poor people and child slaves in the Congo and
Afghanistan to mine his lithium and Cobalt. Musk spends billions per
year to hire Russian trolls, fake blogger fan-boys and buy fake news
self-aggrandizement articles about himself. Musk thinks he is the
‘Jesus’ of Silicon Valley. Fake News manipulator Google is run by
Larry Page and Larry is Musk’s investor and bromance butt buddy.
---- Musk uses massive numbers of shell companies and trust funds
to self-deal, evade the law and hide his bribes and stock market
insider trading. A huge number of Tesla drivers have been killed;
pedestrians and oncoming drivers have also been killed, and Musk
covers it up.
---- The DNC and the MSM refuse to allow any articles about Musk’s
crimes to be printed because they benefit from Musk’s crimes. Musk
has been professionally diagnosed as a ‘psychotic narcissist.’A
‘Silicon Valley Mafia; cartel of frat boy sociopath venture
capitalists like Steve Jurvetson, Tim Draper, Eric Schmidt, et al;
threaten those who do not support the cult of Tesla or their
political candidates.
---- In EVERY blog that you read that mentions ‘Musk’, at
least 1/3 of the comments have been placed their by Musk’s paid
shills. Musk holds the record for getting sued for fraud by his
investors, wives, former partners, employees, suppliers and
co-founders.
---- Elon Musk has gone out of his way to hire hundreds of ex-CIA
staff and assign them to “dirty tricks teams” to attack his
competitors and elected officials who Musk hates. Musk never founded
his companies. Musk’s “Starlink” satellites are domestic spy
and political manipulation tools – never get your internet from
one. Musk stole Tesla in a hostile ownership take-over from Marty the
true inventor of the Tesla.
---- The same kind of EMF radiation proven to cause cancer from
cell phones exists in massive amounts in a Tesla. Musk can’t fix a
car or build a rocket and has almost no mechanical skills. If you
pull a report of every VIN# of every Tesla ever built and cross
reference that with insurance, repair and lawsuit records you will
find that the “per volume” fire, crash, death and defect rate is
THE WORST of any car maker in history!
---- Musk is a lying con artist and partners with Goldman Sachs to
rig the stock market. Sachs has a dedicated team of 18 men who rig
stocks and valuation bumps for Musk. Over 1000 witnesses can prove
every one of those claims in any live televised Congressional
hearing! Senators Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala
Harris and their associates own the stock in Tesla Motors and/or it’s
suppliers and mining companies.
---- That is why they criminally help cover-up investigations of
Tesla! All of this was reported, in writing, to James Comey, Patricia
Rich and David Johnson at the FBI. The DNC bosses own the stock in
lithium, Solar and EV markets and use kickbacks from those markets
(Especially via convoluted campaign finance laundering via Elon Musk)
to finance the DNC. The DNC bosses use character assassination as
their main political tool against any member of the public who speaks
out against their felony stock market scams and PizzaGate-like
scandals.
---- The Harvey Weinstein reports by Ronan Farrow show that they
have teams of hired goons that they pay to destroy people’s lives.
They use Black Cube, Mossad, In-Q-Tel, Stratfor, Gawker Media,
Gizmodo Media, Media Matters, David Brock, Sid Blumenthal, NY Times,
Google servers, Facebook servers, Podesta Group, Perkins Coie,
Covington and Burling and a host of “assassins”.
---- It should be a felony to hire character assassins in the USA.
DEMAND A LAW and DEMAND the termination of these attack services. IE:
Gawker and Gizmodo Media sets-up the attack stories and, in paid
partnership with Google, Google kicks their attack links around the
globe, in front of 8 Billion people, forever. Google locks the attack
articles of its enemies on the front top search results of Google
search results forever, on purpose!
---- That is why Google is being terminated in the largest, most
well resourced anti-corruption public service take-down in history!
Tesla and Musk are protected by shareholders Harris, Pelosi,
Feinstein, Brown and Newsom. Panasonic (indicted for bribery and
Musk’s partner) spends billions of dollars annually cover-up
lithium battery fires and battery defects.
---- There are hundreds of millions of people in America. The same
120 of them are all involved in operating the same crimes and
corruption including: the Sony Pictures corruption; the Afghanistan
rare earth mine scandals operated through The Energy Department
political slush fund that involves the lithium battery cover-ups
(headed by Elon Musk); the Big Tech Brotopia rape, sex trafficking,
bribery, exclusionism, racism and misogyny issues they were taught at
Stanford University;
---- The Facebook – Meta – Google – Alphabet – Netflix, et
al, coordinated news manipulation and domestic spying that they
engage in; the hiring of Fusion GPS – Black Cube – Gizmodo/Gawker
assassins; the destruction of the housing market by their mass real
estate manipulations; patent theft and industrial espionage; and the
bribery of almost every politician all the way up to the Oval Office.
---- So, while the categories covered in this investigation may
seem diverse. They are connected through an enterprise of criminality
and illicit, coordinated operations. We list, by name, the 120 most
complicit individuals organizing these crimes, in the evidence
documents already submitted to the FBI, FINCEN, DOJ, FTC, SEC, FEC,
Congress, InterPol and other authorities. Digital financial tracking
of those persons and all of their family members should be assumed to
have been under way for some time. Wire-taps and device taps of those
persons and all of their family members should be assumed to have
been under way for some time.
Elon Musk's Electric Car Batteries Made By Forced Labor Overseas
Increasing ties have been found between the origin of the
batteries needed to power the technology and forced labor in Chinese
work camps.
Jarryd
Jaeger Vancouver, BC
As many environmentalists push for a quick transition to electric
vehicles and clean energy, increasing ties have been found between
the origin of the batteries needed to power the technology and forced
labor in Chinese work camps.
One province in particular, Xinjiang, is facing mounting criticism
as more details emerge surrounding working conditions for members of
the Uyghur Muslim minority.According
to the New York Times,
while China produces 75 percent of the world's lithium ion batteries,
much of the raw material is mined elsewhere. In recent years,
however, the Chinese government has set their sights on controlling
all aspects of the supply chain.
In order to compete with other countries, China has ramped up
production in the western province of Xinjiang, home to the nation's
Uyghur Muslim minority.
As the Times reports,
companies such as Xinjiang Nonferrous Metal Industry Group have
partnered with the Chinese government to move hundreds of
Uyghurs from the south to the industrialized north where they are put
to work in mines, smelters, and factories producing lithium, nickel,
manganese, beryllium, copper and gold.
While such companies deny that their workers are mistreated,
reports show that Uyghurs are subject to what could easily be deemed
to be forced labor.
Uyghurs who refuse to work in accordance with Chinese government
policies are often sent to internment camps, and in May it was
revealed
that many of those camps have a "shoot-to-kill" policy for
those who attempt to escape.
Thus, the official claim that "all employment is voluntary"
is not supported.
In addition to forced labor, Uyghurs are also subjected to
re-education, wherein government-appointed "teachers"
attempt to create loyal subjects to the nation and communist regime.
On June 21, a new law will go into effect in the United States
called the "Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act." As NPR
reports,
it gives the US authority to seize goods produced in Xinjiang unless
companies can prove they did not engage in forced labor practices.
It's true that doing so will be resisted by Democrats who
don't want to slow the deployment of solar panels and electric cars
in the US, and be resisted by free market Republicans, but the
evidence is clear and this is becoming a moral and national security
imperative.
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) June
20, 2022
Environmental realist, author, and California gubernatorial
candidate Michael Shellenberger is one of many calling on the Biden
administration to go one step further and ban the importation of all
goods from Xinjiang. He says the US should instead focus on
manufacturing green technology at home.
As he points out, however, the decision would face pushback from
both Democrats "who don't want to slow the deployment of solar
panels and electric cars in the US," and "free market
Republicans."
The world has shone a spotlight on the Chinese government's
treatment of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, but it remains to be seen
whether the Communist Party and the companies to which it is so
closely tied will change their practices.
Blame Lithium Batteries for Samsung Note 7 And Tesla Motors Fires
A
major recall of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones could also be a wakeup
call for manufacturers and consumers about lithium-ion (Li-ion)
batteries.
"My
brand new Note 7 exploded this morning while I was still asleep, it
was plugged in and charging." So begins a Reddit
post from
a user in Australia, detailing how a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 caught
fire in a hotel room -- causing $1,800 in damage.
An
image of a damaged Samsung Galaxy Note 7 shows that the overheating
began at the center of the Li-ion battery.
(Source:
Reddit user -- Crushader)
The
Reddit post, made in September, was the first noted case in Australia
but it would be far from the last in the world. According to the US
Consumer Product Safety Commission,
beginning in mid-September Samsung received 96 reports of Note 7
phones overheating, of those 13 resulted in burn injuries and 47 in
some type of property damage.
On
Sept. 15, Samsung initiated a recall of the Note 7, offering to
replace units for customers. But in early October the Note 7 made its
biggest headlines when a replacement model phone started emitting
smoke on
a Southwest Airlines flight from Louisville to Baltimore. Airlines
subsequently banned the Note 7 from flights and Samsung would go on
to recall all of its Note 7 models, including the replacements -- a
total of 1.9 million phones, according to the US Consumer Product
Safety Commission.
Initially
Samsung stayed quiet on what was causing the phones to overheat, but
after dozens of pictures of burnt out Note 7s were posted online,
Internet sleuths were able to figure out the problem. Noting where
the burn marks appear, a technology reviewer on YouTube who goes by
the name JerryRigEverything deduced that the failure was happening
with the phone's lithium-ion battery itself and not with the charging
port or any part of the motherboard, which were also potential points
of failure.
South
Korea-based Samsung has since acknowledged that the problem is with
the battery but hasn't gone deep into specifics. However, Bloomberg
obtained
documents from Korea's Agency for Technology and Standards saying
the overheating was being caused by a lack of insulation between the
battery's positive and negative electrodes, which created a short.
Chris Robinson, research analyst at Lux Research, told Design
News that
battery shorts like this are common, but there could be more to these
Samsung incidents. "A battery short is a common mode of failure,
which results when electrical contact is made between the positive
and negative electrodes. This oftentimes is caused by a manufacturing
defect, such as a contaminant getting into the manufacturing process,
but in this case there may be more to the Samsung story,"
Robinson said via email. "The replacement batteries started
catching fire, which could indicate a larger problem with the design
of the handset."
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Of
course, the Note 7 is only the latest in what has been a series of
recent lithium-ion-related issues in consumer products. Back in 2012
the Fisker
Karma was
recalled because of battery overheating issues. In 2013 a Tesla Model
S caught
fire,
revealing a design flaw in which the vehicle's battery pack wasn't
properly shielded against road debris that could potentially puncture
it. And just last Christmas the hottest item on the shelves -- the
hoverboard
--
had its hype train derailed when reports started surfacing of shoddy
knockoff products with defective lithium-ion batteries catching fire.
It
really brings to question why we rely on such a potentially volatile
solution for our battery needs. But Robinson said that issues with
lithium-ion batteries do not happen at random. "These incidents
are problems given how much we use electronic devices and the
severity of the fires, but Li-ion batteries can be made safe.
However, with Li-ion battery fires there is almost always a reason
why they catch fire -- it's not just a random event," he said.
"Considering the hoverboard fires, they were caused by mostly
Chinese Li-ion manufacturers with poor quality control and no
established track record of making volumes of batteries, who
hoverboard manufacturers turned to as Li-ion demand increased ahead
of rushing these products to market ahead of the holiday season.
Fisker battery fires were caused by coolant leaks which led to
batteries overheating, and several Tesla fires were related to
external damaging of the battery from debris or a crash."
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"The
key component which prevents shorting, a major failure mode of
batteries, is the separator," Robinson said. "Many use a
polymer separator, but ceramics have been of some interest to the
industry for improved safety and durability. However, these add
weight and cost to the battery, which is why most companies forego
their use." He suggested that, moving forward, these types of
separators may become more attractive to companies looking to
increase product safety. Next-generation
chemistries,
things like solid-state batteries, could also be an option. "This
also could allow for improved energy density," Robinson said.
"But these batteries are not manufactured at the large scale
required to supply cell phones, and also add significant costs.
Right
now, despite any risks, Li-ion batteries are still the best choice
for consumer products and electric vehicles since they offer the best
balance of energy and power density and lifecycle. "Previous
chemistries, primarily NiMH batteries, could only offer about half of
the performance relative to size and weight that Li-ion batteries can
provide." Robinson said.
However,
as consumers demand products that are not only higher performing but
also increasingly light and thin, we may be putting a greater burden
on OEMs as far as ensuring product safety. Cramming a battery into a
smaller and smaller space while still demanding more power and
performance also opens the door for the sort of incidents seen with
the Note 7. The Note 7, for example, is Samsung's lightest and
thinnest Note model yet (by a small margin), but also has more
sensors, a better camera, and more hard drive storage space.
"As
manufacturers push for lighter and thinner phones that does make both
the battery and system design more difficult," Robinson said.
"Batteries must be kept fairly cool to prevent thermal runaway,
which leads to fires, and increasingly small space make this
difficult. Furthermore, on the cell level, manufacturers try to use
the thinnest and cheapest separators as possible, since they add
weight, volume, and price to the cell."
Chris
Wiltz is the Managing Editor of Design
News
BIDEN AND OBAMA PROMISED THEIR BIG TECH POLITICAL
FINANCIERS EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MARKET AND
LITHIUM ION BATTERY MINES
...IT ALL BLEW UP IN THEIR FACES
Fewer people are buying electric cars —
the slowdown hints at a problem at the heart of America's EV push.
NurPhoto/Getty, Tyler Le/BI © NurPhoto/Getty, Tyler Le/BI
Biden and Obama ordered their Department of Energy to sabotage
hydrogen fuel cell cars because they obsolete lithium ion cars. That
turned out to be a huge disaster for Biden and Obama!
Electric vehicles were supposed to be inevitable. Two years ago
President Joe Biden climbed behind the wheel of a beefy white
electric Hummer to tout his plan to make half
of all new cars sold electric by 2030. The following year
Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which created a bevy of
incentives for drivers to buy electric and for automakers to invest
in EVs. That set off a flurry of new projects: EV plants,
battery-manufacturing facilities, and mining operations began popping
up. By the end of 2022 the situation looked promising: More and more
Americans were going electric, and soon everyone would be driving an
EV, reducing emissions in the process.
The transition to an all-EV future seemed like a slam dunk. It
would not only give the government a highly visible way to show it's
fighting the climate crisis but boost the economy through new jobs
and investment. But the electric-vehicle takeover has hit some
serious roadblocks.
Sure, sales
of EVs keep going up — a record 300,000 cars sold in the US in
the third quarter of 2023 were electric — but the pace of adoption
has markedly slowed, and analysts have suggested the country is no
longer on
track to hit the government's sales targets. The trickle-down
effects of this decreased demand are everywhere. EVs accumulated
at dealerships this fall, even as automakers cut prices to try to
entice customers. Automakers have backtracked on their promised
investments: Ford
delayed $12 billion of its planned $15 billion investment in EV
manufacturing capacity, while General Motors delayed production of
key EV models and scrapped a $5 billion partnership with Honda to
make cheaper EVs. Even Tesla
— once the superstar of EVs — announced it would delay a planned
factory in Mexico. Auto execs who were once trumpeting the potential
of electric cars are even publicly acknowledging that EVs
aren't working.
Industry analysts have pointed to several reasons for the
slowdown, including insufficient charging infrastructure and a lack
of affordable EV options. But they're a symptom of the larger
problem: America's EV plan was flawed from the start. Instead of
seeing EVs as one piece of a plan for more sustainable
transportation, America has focused on using EVs as a one-to-one
replacement for gas guzzlers. But this one-size-fits-all solution
fails to address our broader transportation problems, meaning
emissions targets are likely to be missed and other transportation
problems will continue to go unaddressed.
"The entire myth at the heart of this whole transition is
that the battery car seamlessly fits right into the gas car's
position," Edward Niedermeyer, the author of "Ludicrous:
The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors," told me. "It
doesn't, and that's the problem."
The EV myth
The mission to replace gas cars with EVs has led to a series of
major miscalculations, one of which has to do with the sheer size of
the new electric vehicles being put on the road.
Over the past few decades the American auto industry has become
obsessed with huge vehicles. The reasons for the size inflation
range from profit margins to distorted government
fuel standards, but the proliferation of bigger vehicles created
a doom loop of consumer preference: Drivers saw the vehicles around
them getting bigger, so they wanted bigger cars to make themselves
feel safer. Automakers argued that this was proof that people wanted
only big cars, so they
cut small models and made existing vehicles bigger, which made
people with smaller cars feel less safe — you get the picture.
Meanwhile, road deaths and injuries soared, while the larger, less
efficient vehicles wiped out environmental
benefits from higher emissions standards.
The entire myth at the heart of this whole transition is
that the battery car seamlessly fits right into the gas car's
position. Edward Niedermeyer
When automakers pivoted to EVs, they focused on the kinds of cars
that were already popular — which meant a flood of big electrified
SUVs and trucks. But massive-bodied EVs don't make much sense. Larger
EVs require bigger batteries, which require more raw materials to
manufacture, which requires producers to beef up their
environmentally
destructive mining operations. While bigger batteries allow
drivers to travel farther between charges, they also make the cars
heavier, more
dangerous, more expensive, and worse for the planet.
The "range anxiety" that has resulted in massive
batteries is another reason EVs don't work as a replacement for gas
cars. Niedermeyer said that while an electric car can meet most
people's driving needs, it struggles with edge cases like road trips
because of the need to recharge. Since Americans have been promised a
one-to-one substitute for their gas cars, this seems like a failure;
an EV should be able to do everything a gas car can. This idea
persists even though in 2023 the average US driver traveled only
about 40
miles a day, and in 2022 about 93% of US trips were less than 30
miles. Still, in a survey conducted by Ipsos last fall, 73% of
respondents indicated they had concerns about EV range.
The focus on increasing EVs' range is contributing to their
relatively high prices. Unlike with gas cars, the more you pay for an
EV, the more range you can expect to receive. And since Americans
have been conditioned to want a lot of range, cars with big batteries
and longer ranges have dominated the market, resulting in stubbornly
high prices. In September, Cox Automotive pegged the average EV price
at $50,683, down 22% from the same time last year. But an analysis
from CarGurus found that EV prices were still 28% higher than
gas-vehicle prices on average. With prices for everything else —
rent, groceries, and other goods — increasing, the average person
has less cash to splurge on an expensive electric vehicle.
All of this means there's a natural limit to the number of
American households willing and able to make the shift to electric.
They've largely been high-income households in places like
California, where charging infrastructure is more plentiful. The
polling firm Strategic Vision found that EV buyers have a
median household income of $186,000. Cox estimated that 8% to 9%
of new-vehicle sales in the United States in 2023 would be electric,
but getting above that threshold is proving to be more difficult than
expected.
The Norway model
If there's any direct inspiration for the United States' EV
policy, it's Norway. As the story goes, Norway introduced some
compelling subsidies for EVs, sales took off, and now the vehicles
virtually dominate the roads. But the reality isn't so simple. And
Norway's challenges bode poorly for America's EV push.
Norway shows that if US policymakers stick with the
current model of EV transition, it's going to be a difficult road.
Norway introduced EV incentives in
the 1990s, then added more when EV technology really took off in
the 2010s. EV drivers could get perks like free parking, permission
to drive in bus lanes, and, most importantly, exemptions from taxes
and fees that could ultimately save them a lot of money. In
September, 87%
of new-vehicle sales were fully electric vehicles. The problem,
Ketan Joshi, a climate-analysis expert in Oslo, told me, is that that
stat "doesn't really give you a good picture of the rate of
change." Though the new-vehicle sales figure is high, data from
Statistics Norway indicates the total share of EVs on Norwegian
roads in 2022 was only about 20% — there's still a long way to go
until everyone's driving electric.
Even with this shift, Norway isn't on track to meet its 2030
emissions-reduction targets. While emissions from passenger
vehicles have fallen slightly, Joshi said, those reductions are being
canceled out by an increase in emissions from trucks. People in
Norway own more cars than they have in the past, in part because EV
incentives encourage people to buy more
cars, and the government has no
plans to reduce how much people are driving. The researcher
Benjamin Sovacool and his colleagues have pointed
out that, just like in the US, EV buyers in Norway "tend to
be in higher income brackets, often using their EV as a second car."
The Norwegian approach has also had a ton of unintended
consequences. Joshi told me that the decline in gas tax revenue due
to EV adoption had triggered a contentious political debate about
increasing road tolls to make up the difference. (A political party
was even formed on the platform of stopping
the tolls.) Plus, heavier
electric vehicles are harder on roads, produce more air
pollution, and pose a greater safety risk for pedestrians.
Norway has made great headway in getting buyers to go for EVs, but
it's not a silver bullet, especially on a short timeline. "It
shows you the extreme slowness of transition that is basically guided
by the rate at which people buy a new car," Joshi said of
Norway's approach. Reducing transportation emissions by incentivizing
people to replace their car with an EV is incredibly slow. And for
countries like the US that got started late, it's a warning sign.
Norway shows that if US policymakers stick with the current model
of EV transition, it's going to be a difficult road. Even if adoption
keeps ticking up, it will take a long time to get existing
internal-combustion-engine vehicles off the road and see a notable
decline in transport emissions. Plus, there will be other issues to
deal with like increased road maintenance and pedestrian safety.
"Narrow success in one area is not something you necessarily
want to emulate," Joshi said.
Time for a rethink
The shift from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles is an
opportunity to rethink how Americans get from place to place. But so
far the US government, carmakers, and consumers have been pursuing a
small-minded swap that lacks the necessary ambition.
Getting Americans to ditch
driving altogether would be the most effective way to reduce
emissions, but it would require a massive rethink of our transport
system. Something like that doesn't happen overnight, and given the
decadeslong lack of investment in anything other than car
infrastructure, there are plenty of other opportunities for a better
future. If the government and automakers are serious about making
transportation more sustainable, they should be incentivizing smaller
vehicles, hybrid cars, and public transportation like trains and
buses.
EVs can be an important part of the fight against the climate
crisis, but America's EV plan needs to lean into what these cars do
well: short daily trips that can be taken in small,
affordable cars. People who frequently take long trips can take
advantage of hybrid cars. And better public transit and faster
intercity trains could make a huge difference for people and the
planet.
While it may be a sexy and industry-friendly approach to the
climate crisis, an EV-first plan isn't the most effective way to
tackle the enormous challenge we face.
