Yet another HUGE EV FIRE, this time at Rivian in the USA
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- In this video we're talking about the HUGE fire that engulfed more than 50 cars at Rivian's production plant in the USA.
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New cars in general are trash, just stick to mid 2000's and older.
Agree with this completely
Anti right to repair = disposable trash !
Maintaining my old Rover 75 with pride. Drives superbly. 2.0 diesel.
no right to repair equals disposable trash !
I've hired cars recently and the electrickery is awful. Lane assist, proximity braking, everything on a screen. Back in the early 90's the 'Big 4' motorbike companies, after a decade of increasing tech in bikes, all produced ranges of cheaper, retro styled, air cooled, unfaired bikes and they were a huge success. It's starting to sound like there could be a demand for that kind of thing in cars right now.
All these electric fires can’t be good for the environment.
Didn't you learn anything at the reeducation centre Trees love toxic smoke !
They're great for the environment. It is spreading its NetZERO for everyone to enjoy
Not good enough even for marshmallows.
It's OK it's environmentally friendly smoke 😂
@@enfield7123
Environmentally friendly?
Can't go wrong with that.
Insurance job.... they aint selling.
That's what I was thinking..
@@ivormcmanus3468 Same thing happened to the p * bs a few years ago .
Nah they would have burnt the whole factory down if it was that, and used the insurance money to build an ICE production line 😂
@@rocketmunkey1 That would have been too obvious . . .
If I were the insurance company I would deny the claim for the vehicles being parked too close to each other is not enough action taken to avoid the spread of the fire,
Iworked ib a GM plant for forty years and not one vehicle caught fire. The plant itself had several fires but not one gas or diesel car ever set itself alight
Must have been a fluke.
EVs hate themselves
If you talk about EV fire that guy by name of EV Viking instant ban you
No, you must be mistaken. Obviously at least 90% of the ICE vehicles that you built at that plant caught fire spontaneously.
@davidkettell1073 That’s a good point, I was dragged up in Coventry, 60 odd years ago. Not far from the British Leyland plant, (and there were plenty of other car manufacturers as well), I cannot recall a single self combustion event in any of their car parks full of new cars. Luckily, I escaped in the early 80s but spent plenty of times back there and would have heard from friends in the dwindling car industry there.
Get this geoff in live in Dublin and the streets are full of electric buses noisey heavy hateful things, they just announced that electric bikes are not allowed on board anymore because of a fire risk, couldn't make it up 😂
They both have the same batteries. We have seen recently 3 London buses catch fire.
They gave up on electric busses, here. They go dead fast and all broke down. But fed govt keeps printing money to buy them.
Employer bought electric shuttles...I haven't seen one in several months. I assume they all broke down 😂
Gr8 way to drain down council resources. Will they all go 'bussed'?
The fire "damaged a number of EVs..." says the pro-EV website. But 60 EVs destroyed by a fire is different than "damaged a number of EVs..." See how manipulative their language is?
Worth ~ $5,000,000.00. 💸💸💸💸🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
That's probably why car insurance keeps going up...
Come on Geoff, they're not fires, they're "thermal events"
Heat related incident sound more climate changey.
A Special Thermal Operation 😂
good point!
Yes 😂 next it will be " that's not a house fire, it's a thermal event 😉 😅
@@dn744 Then "global warming/climate change" will be blamed...
There was a Tesla Semi truck that burned for 12 hours on I-80 between Sacramento and Reno this month. They had to close the road because of the hazardous fumes. They couldn't put out the fire.
They had to call in aircraft to drop fire suppression powder and cycle in water trucks refilling a big water tank to keep it from spreading while it burned
@@Theweouthereforrealclub- Just think if that occurred in a tunnel or populated area.
@@mutantryeff research the "Caldecott Tunnel fire" - imagine if instead of a fuel tanker it was commute time and the tunnel was full of EVs - even one igniting would set them all on fire
@@ragtowne
I can’t find any references to it, but wasn’t there a tunnel fire in “Russia” that was so bad that they just sealed the ends… permanently?
In Norway they shut access to tunnels at night , they can't get to the scene quick enough to save anyone if they could do at all@@sirifail4499
Geoff I have a company EV which I absolutely hate. I park it on the other side of the road rather than park it on the driveway. Best way to avoid my house burning down!
(Apologies to the neighbours across the road for any damage that may occur at some point in the future).
It's yours is it?
😂😂😂😂
I hope you have good company health insurance
@@johnwade1095He specifically said it's a company EV, so it is not his.
You should put in a claim for stress & abuse in the workplace.....
Just had an electric bike catch fire whilst being ridden here in Australia. What a time to be alive
Funny how none of these EV fires are ever on the BBC.
Can't afford the bad press
Imagine this in one of those motorway pile ups.. utter nightmare 😮
Anyone living the near the Nissan Sunderland Car Plant might want to consider moving house pronto. They have been making battery cars for over a decade now. Nissan are also building a battery factory next door too. Looks like that house prices in the area near to the factory will decline
They can put the batteries in after production and move the fire problem to the community instead
Nobody is going to own houses anyway😅
I worked there from 1986 until 2004 we never had any vehicle fires on site that I’m aware of during that period 🤔 however I’m sure that’s likely to change but that’s progress allegedly 😊
UK has a knife crime problem , mostly imported from abroad
Very few knives still made in Sheffield indeed
This sends the message to any potential EV buyers, buy an EV at your own peril, because it could easily cost you and your family their lives by it setting itself on fire while you’re inside it.
More worrying that it could catch fire unattended.
How many homes have been lost to these??? I've seen lots from around the world.
The UK is not lawless Geoff, there are lots of laws. It is just that they apply to some people and not others.
Exactly.... Just in time for Starmerism . Hold on to your dreams they're disappearing FAST !
Oh, the UK isn't "lawless", it just that the laws we are labouring under (see what I did?) are so far removed from the original intent they were passed for, that they are twisted out of shape and can, and are, applied to anything that 'offends' anyone who can, and decide to, be offended.
Including the Police.
Also, people pick and choose what laws they follow and studiously ignore the rest. Governments are notorious at this, and they are meant to be *the exemplars of lawkeeping.*
As if.
And now, we are facing a chimera of law - British Common Law and Sharia'h law, to keep and mollify a certain geo-political religious group who will set up the 'sharia'h compliant zones', as they have tried before, and the Good Lord help anyone living in such an area who don't adhere to their 'religion', of which Starmer will support! And the British Police will not stop, never mind the local Council (unless they are full of Other Religion councillors).
What has this got to do with exploding EVs, one might ask? Just this - this Govt wants us to buy and use them, but not properly protect those who do, who are starry-eyed because they "are saving the planet" by driving one (their choice). It may come to it where the NetZero project becomes law, where driving an ICE car becomes illegal and we become criminals for simply having one on our driveways, in garages or parked on the road outside one's house.
*Skewed laws -* WEF-inspired, money-making, social-controlling, 15-minute distancing, owning nothing (except for the Elites) and 'being happy'... You know the rest.
It will be a diesel Rivian that caused it ....oh :)
Classic!
Yeah the battery and electrical system ;)
Brilliant ✌️
Rivian also makes the electric delivery vans for Amazon.
3 burned up while charging around a month ago in Texas-media is silent (drone video is out there).
Rivian ticks all the green boxes🙄with windmills and solar panels around the factory(seen in some of the footage).
So in Korea an EV destroyed 800+ cars, therefore 800+ EV fires....statistically..! and now 60 Rivians..not one..!
you play with feathers, you get your arse tickled
armpits at least
You swallow snooker balls, you get your arse split...
@@WheelhomeWanderer Where did my comment about snooker balls and split arses go?
What's it going to take? A hospital burning or a car park under a tower block on fire.....oh we already have had that ( silly me) 🙉
They want us all to perish, so they'll never stop.
People not buying them, is the only way.
The cow said moo and the duck said quack, bang when the EV.
Went*
.@CsmicSeeker69 - "..bang, when the EV... blew up." Any better?🤔
Geoff Lada produced a similar vehicle to that Rivian. Sadly due to world politics we can't import new Lada's anymore including their cool 4x4.
Isn't the new Ladas now just rebadged Chinese cars, though?
Well the x-cross 5 is a rebadged FAW.
Lada won't last cause of that and cause the exact same Chinese badged car is also available in that markert for cheaper. Then again, how long did Lada sell that rebadged Fiat for, decades wasn't it?
@TheHyperPenguin they were still producing the Niva and you could import new ones prior to what is going on. I think they still produce the Niva but I know that they are buying Chinese cars due to the embargo on Europe and America stopping shipping new vehicles to Russia. Although the EV's and Chinese cars they have received are terrible in quality and reliability.
You’re right that is where I’ve seen the styling before
@@GeoffBuysCars “Styling”? That’s a bit strong. 😊
i'll take a lada niva over most trash cars of today!
Almost certain bankruptcy within 24 months should prevent anyone from buying a Rivian. Rivian's 2Q24 loss was $1.5 bill. Rivian is now drowning in debt and has over one billion shares outstanding. Until Rivian addresses its impending bankruptcy issue, it's too risky to spend $100k on a Rivian
Yeah there is a reason rivian is selling out its research and development to other car brands now. They are desperately seeking a cash infusion to keep going. Another couple of years and rivian will probably be carved up and sold off to the other manufacturers during bankruptcy.
The worst thing about Rivian is the cost of panel repairs. A small dent can cost 20k plus because of the huge size of the alumimium panels. They are amazing cars though if you have loads of cash to get rid of.
Brand new cars "waiting to be fixed, before shipping" my first laugh of the day🤣
Any manufacturer with decent quality control will have new products held back for rectification. This is not 1980s British Leyland!
I'm here to see the fire !!!
You get a jail sentence for that nowadays!
Any thing that's insured in a recession is a fire risk.
Statistically there may be more fires worldwide involving petrol/diesel cars but when EVs catch fire the results are much more serious.Theycan self combust and need on average 45 thousand gallons of water plus often they combust again when the fire is out..The batteries are not stable enough and I would never park one close to property or in my garage.
It didn’t help in South Korea that the sprinkler system was off
The statistics is fake, the pro ev fans keep repeating it until it becomes true. Look closely at the source of those numbers, it comes from a non-profit organization whose director have ties to the ev industry.
I watched American Salty Cracker's report on this, it was eye opening, Toxic fumes, resident's evacuated, a very military affair, Ariel drone footage was very impressive, if that was just 60 vehicles damaged, plus 2/3rd of the factory, I am impressed.
Temperature of volcanic magma around 700 C. Plasma arc from shorting out lithium batteries around 2600C. Melting point of most constructional steel 1440C. Good recipe for inevitabilities.
Good to know.
Oh, jet fuel. Steel. We remember 😂
What needs to be fixed ?
What about the battery.
Where is written that EVs are less likely to catch fire? There cannot be any reliable stats on this
not reliable stats, just manipulated ones. Some things never change
THEY ARE SAFE AND EFFECTIVE! The government says so, and they wouldn't lie! 🤭
There are no stats. There has been insufficient time for both to have existed in similar numbers to make any useful comparison. We will know in the next 10 years or so. There’s no getting away from it though, there have been more main dealer fires in the last few years than ever before.
Get an insurance quote. Then you'll know how much riskier they are than whatever you drive.
They did a five year study in South Korea, I think it was, and their statistics showed EVs burning more often than ICE vehicles. They seem to be catching up, and as more EVs get older, it may increase more.
Those excited electrons are trying their best to say something.
Probably... Boom, your toast.
@@satanssurfer5965 Indeed. 👍
GT, I don't think we need to worry about compulsory ownership of EV vehicles. They are now self-destructing at the manufacturing plant. Just so long as no one gets hurt, it can only be a good thing. Para phrasing Mission Impossible here " This car will self-destruct in 10 seconds "
Beautiful view Geoff...
So much good news and its not Christmas 😂.
The Korean fire was not helped by the water sprinklers not working.
I own an EV, but I would not like to own a condo knowing there are 200 EV parked in the basement. Luckily, our apartment carpark is not in the building. Also, comparing all ICE vehicles with all EV is unfair as there are approximately 1.6 billion ICE vehicles worldwide on the road, most much older than any EV.
I bet if the stats compared all ICE vehicles the same age as EV, the stats would be much more EV fires
Just another nail in Rivian's coffin. They will be gone by next year.
I worked in a PSA distribution centre for 8 years as a technician. Zero fires. I'd run my petrol yard car for 40hrs a week, most of it at idle. No issue's.
Rivian R3... I can't decide if they copied the Lada Niva, or the Vauxhall Nova.
Both ugly
the website has an ironing board hanging out the back! "look the car cant carry this!"
But but but EVs don't catch on fire as often as do ICE cars! Please ignore the hard fact that EV fires are mostly literally, infinitely more difficult to extinguish. Firefighters' default response is to move uninvolved objects a safe distance and let the EV determines when it's going to stop self-immolating.
When discussing the topic of car fires, you must apply EVangelist newspeak.
"ICE car destroyed in fire," as opposed to, "EV damaged in thermal event."
And a large percentage of ICE car fires are down to arson, not self-immolation.
Oh these EVs are great for the enviroment. EVs on fire must xause more toxic polution than a diesel truck a full chat with knackered injectors
I told [promised] myself when I retired 7 years ago I would buy myself a new car every 3 years and budgeted for it - 4 years ago I tried to buy a new car, found nobody made anything I liked [2L diesel non DEF manual box SUV] - now own a 1979 Land Cruiser and am VERY happy.
EV fire recently in Norway / Oslo took out another 20 or so cars around it in a residential area.
What gets me is that all these people that are fascinated with 'statistics' seem to ignore one main statistical factor, the ratio of EVs to ICE vehicles currently on the road. When this 'statistic' is added to the mix then it becomes obvious that there is a larger percentage of spontaneous immolation in EVs than ICE vehicles.
And they probably lie with statistics. One way of doing it is suggesting hybrids are ICE burns, etc... You can tweak any statistic without really lying.
Absolutely true but, they will manipulate the statistics accordingly.
What happens when EV lithium ion batteries age...
Not according to the Dickhead that is Quentin Wilson 🤢🙃
@@sextonmallard3325Pop 🎉
I love these statistics that people constantly quote, if you know anything about statistics you know they are the best way to push propaganda. The only car fire i've ever seen was a mercedes that someone set on fire and was put out less than an hour later, most likely an insurance job because car tires were heard screeching away from it shortly before it was discovered.
If all the bad neighbourhoods in the world had EV in them then you would see those 'statistics' rise exponentially, most EV are still prohibitively expensive and owned by posh toffs who live in good neighbourhoods.
Would the Molotov cocktail be vegan friendly? It's a legitimate concern!
If that was in the UK it properly be put down to the far right.
Thank you for all your videos
The sweet sweet rolling hills of Worcestershire. Takes me back to my youth in the 80s. Simpler times!
Not likely to suddenly blow up under you, either.
Sod the planet, let's dig for lithium.
This must make the people with a Rivian charging inside their garage feel so comfortable.
I have an e bike and I am only charging it outside in the middle of the pavement nothing around to catch fire in case there is one
The Naked Gun - "Nothing to see here!"
meanwhile fireworks factory burns in background 🤣
The exponential rise in EV's has shocked me..as a person who has studied car design EVs were the future but the speed that has happened filled me with unease..the infrastructure here in the UK was never at all adequate for them anyway..plus the tech has been rushed into sale without the r&d needed for longevity..imo a receipe for DISASTER really that's going to cost big time, if not for us it will be for manufacturers who will trickle the costs down to us!..
In the Rivian plant parking lot, faulty charging equipment is appearing to be the cause.
How environmentally friendly 🤦🏼🤡🏴🇷🇺
I see the cars you showed didn't have fire coming out of the exhaust
R3? WHAT? That's a Talbot Sunbeam! Now they were good, especially with the Lotus engine in. 🤣
Haha.....EV cars are mental and destructive to the environment in a devastating way once they ignite.
Plus impossible to put out with...WATER.😂😂😂😂
That Rivian R3 looks a lot like a Lada Niva. Absolutely retro styling!
Big fire in Poland in Poznan city all buildings was destroyed ( inside was shop fixed battery) two fireman died!!
😢
considering the brand is borderline bankruptcy like all those "give me the money I'll try to make cars eventually" ev bubble companies I would for once not blame evs immediately
Why are these EV rolling bombs legal ???? 😭😨
Why are ICE vehicles legal? They catch fire at a greater rate.
I love to hear good news 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
This was my hometown - the factory is where Mitsubishi used to make the Eclipse. Rivian has never made a profit, the government is keeping them active.
"EVs less likely to catch fire" the last time I made a rough estimation (only cars since 2014, only fires related to drivetrain / fuel storage, relative to total cars registred etc.), EVs were about 11 times more likely to catch fire than ICE cars and that number is only gonna go up as EVs get older/cheaper and people get desperade to keep ones with failing batteries on the road.
The numbers they put out, I’m sure it’s all lies. I’m 43 and I have seen less than 5 cars on fire. That’s driving 25k miles a year also.
Geoff I can’t see the problem here either EV fires, my Volvo v40 diesel catches fire at least three times a day when it’s parked up and turned off.
A little fire adds a little fun to your day 🤣
Our local Audi dealer was closed for months, an EV set on fire in the service area.
Its only just re-opened.
Alright,Geoff. Upstate n,y again. A comment for the algorithm,,not quite a rant ,,but pretty good content, keep plugging away ,my friend
It's like the hoverboard fires all over again, but on a monumental size difference.
I have just seen an R3 Rivian at the Monterey car week and it is a great looking vehicle with a lot of good features. If I had the money and wanted a BEV Rivian would be my choice. They were providing a shuttle service around the Pebble Beach Concourse De Elegance, and I got a ride to one of the car parks and it was a very nice trip. But I would still not park it in my garage at home if I had one.
There must have been an ICU car there.
Starmer from Wakanda told me. ❤
Good day Geoffrey 👍👀🌷
How much environmental and health damage has to be done before EV's are officially banned ?
EV's are the worst environmental disaster ever created !!!!!
Absolutely fabulous, I hate the smell of lithium in the morning. ….Get the new album from joff “waiting to catch fire”. just offering fire for free
I’m with you on the 1979 Golf Gti . Was only a teenager so couldn’t afford one.
I can't wait until we all have to drive EVs, the fire brigade won't be able to move for EV fires.
Bloke in a flat cap can put out a diesel car fire with a dry power extinguisher in 20 seconds. Statistically!
Pre EV's how often did you hear of cars spontaneously combusting? I personally am not aware of one.
I encountered a car off the road burning years ago. Although the car being off the road indicates that it had to crash in order to burn. The car also appeared abandoned while it burned.
Statistically, it’s old cars in disrepair that tend to burn.
Ev batteries have an extremely unstable chemistry. All rechargeable batteries are dangerous. There's no such thing as a Safe rechargeable battery
If one of these ever decides to self-combust inside the channel tunnel - just doesn't bear thinking about.
Imagine seeing 60 of them burning at the same time and fire brigade is like “ ok lets wait until they die out”🙈
That R2 thing looks like a Land Rover.
Finally Geoff acknowledges not to use Google search👏 It was probably my one and only pet hate of yours. Not used it in 10years other when someone has pointed out something they have censored , so begrudgingly
checked for myself.
You're getting gooderer and gooderer 😎
Imagine trying to get to sleep on the ninth floor of a swanky seafront apartment when the basement has 146 of these vehicles in it?
What a thought.
Let's ALL Rush out to buy EV n get CREMATED for Free
I used to live in Bloomington, IL, which is as close as I’ve ever been to Normal.
this is to be expected work with explosive substances get explosive results
The R3 looks OK, but I'd suggest shrinking the wheels by a couple of inches. They're too large for the body and compromise the rear door access. VW did something similar with the Polo and its SUV cousin the T-Cross; the 5-door Up felt bigger in the back (and was easier to access) because the T-Cross wheel arches took so much space from the rear passenger bench.
Well at least all those with Motability EVs won't freeze this winter! Just gather round the EV and toast stale bread.
Such a calm pastoral scene for this news. Quite the contrast lol
MGuy quoted, when reporting the Korean EV fire, a study that compared EV to ICE like for like car gores which showed EVs are more likely to catch fire.
50-60 of about 250 parked EVs, about one sixth of them! Lousy odds if you were a betting person, I would have thought!
EVs waiting for delivery would not have a full charge, prob about 20%, therefore, the explosive energy in the lithium cobalt (poisonous) batteries would be very low compared to a fully charfed vattery.
BTW, it was a Merc in Korea that had been just sitting in an underground garage and jyst self ignited that caused massive destruction of many other cars, and the building.
Ahh net zero, you just have to love it!
Great backdrop...
What *"Spontaneously"* combusts more often, ICE or EV? I never hear about ICE vehicles catching on fire in parking lots, unless it's a mob hit.
EVs in storage in general are so prone to catching fire due to the lithium chemistry. The same thing happens a ton in China especially in yards that are often catching on fire and even on ships.
Hopefully, Rivian has a turbo diesel as a powertrain choice. Get the share holders to vote on it.
Well, it's SO Much easier than trying to sell them, I'm guessing they were well insured !
hi geoff the R2 looks a lot like a LR discovery ?