The definitive EV thread. No spin. No BS., page-2967

I will say one good thing about an electric vehicle - don't say I never do.

Owning an EV can remove the difficult decision of whether you want to be cremated or buried, when your time is up.
That decision is made for you.


https://www.vice.com/en/article/cybertruck-poor-design-turned-a-crash-into-a-cremation-lawsuit-alleges/



"A 47-year-old Texas man wasn’t just killed in his Cybertruck after a crash, he was cremated in it.
Now his widow and parents are suing Tesla.

By the time Michael Sheehan’s Cybertruck stopped burning, his bones had shattered from the intense heat, and his body had shrunk by eight inches.

The registered nurse was trapped inside his brand-new $100,000 Tesla when it veered off-road, crashed into a culvert, and exploded into flames that hit 5,000°F, a fire so hot that it reduced his bones to ash."

When the crash disabled the vehicle’s electrical systems, Sheehan couldn’t open the doors, the handles failed, and the emergency manual release was too difficult for him to find in his panic.

He was trapped. He was burned alive. He had only owned the Cybertruck for 102 days.


Yet one more tragic case of being trapped inside a vehicle that;

a) does not have a traditional mechanical linkage between internal door handle and locking mechanism.
b) will be engulfed in a self-sustaining high-temperature fire in a very short time

If the occupants are dazed, confused, or incapacitated in any way, and cannot find and operate the pathetic emergency release.... you're good as dead.

But there's that positive... decision already made.