Wednesday, October 04, 2023

I DIDN'T KNOW THIS WAS A PROBLEM

By Bob Walsh


Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, tweeted this photo of the destroyed building


It seems that electric cars are giving possible grief to the owners and operators of parking structures.  Electric cars are significantly heavier than internal combustion engine powered cars.  If you have enough of them in one area of a multi-story parking structure it can, at least in theory, give you a problem.  I have not heard that it has happened (yet) but they are looking at it very hard in the UK.  Also fires from these vehicles burn very hot for a very long period of time and that can cause a danger to a parking structure which an "ordinary" gasoline fire would not. 

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