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Perfect Windows

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Re: Electric vans
« Reply #380 on: January 31, 2025, 04:51:02 pm »
I won't get stranded nor will it catch fire.

Fire risk already covered in the thread

PS. My favourite stats on fires come from an article about Tusker fleet management. (1)  They have 30,000 EVs and "the company’s insurance records show that not a single one of the EVs on its fleet have caught fire." (2) "A study by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency backs up Tusker’s findings. It concluded that EVs are 20 times less likely to catch fire than petrol and diesel cars."
Both quotes from an excellent article at https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/tusker-fleet-data-reveals-the-truth-about-ev-fires

But that article already quoted includes this about running out of energy:

"The second myth highlighted by Tusker was that EV drivers often run out of electricity, leaving them stranded.

No one is denying that an EV with a flat battery is bit more tricky to get going again than a petrol or diesel car with a dry tank, but Tusker’s data shows that the number of its customers who ran out of juice in their EV was the same as the number who ran out of fuel.

Wisdom said: “Our stats shows that most people aren't running out of electricity. It's a tiny, tiny percent and it's pretty much the same as people who run out of fuel.

“There are always going to be some careless people out there, but this is this is not a phenomenon that we're seeing in our fleet.”


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AuRavelling79

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Re: Electric vans
« Reply #381 on: January 31, 2025, 05:28:58 pm »
Anyway Bungle, you still haven't explained why you would put '100% Diesel' on your van.
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