Puncture of Critical EV Part Triggers ‘Thermal Runaway’ – 20,000 Gallons of Water Needed to Put Out the Fire

The Wakefield Fire Department and Massachusetts State Police responded to a one-car accident on Interstate 95 in Wakefield on Thursday night. When they arrived at the scene, they saw a Tesla electric vehicle “wedged onto the guardrail in the right breakdown lane,” according to a Wakefield Fire Department press release. The driver had been able to …

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Al Gore’s Unhinged Rant at Davos

We previously noted how Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry told attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that they were a “select group of human beings” who got to talk about saving Mother Gaia from global warming climate change emergency, something about which Robert Stacy McCain wrote in more detail. Not unexpectedly, …

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Man Charges His Electric Truck for Entire Week, It Gained Just 56 Miles of Range

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The owner of an R1T, an electric truck manufactured by Rivian Automotive, Inc., wrote to electric vehicle website InsideEVs.com to share his experience, or rather his nightmare. The Phoenix, Arizona, resident told InsideEvs he had left his truck plugged in for an entire week and found it had drawn only 32 kWh which means it only added …

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It’s Never Truly Been About Saving the Planet

It’s Never Truly Been About Saving the Planet “A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.” ~ Ted Turner, 1996 Greetings my fellow Americans! Though Mr. Turner (noted founder of CNN and Cable TV’s child-targeting propaganda machine Captain Planet) is by no means the only speaker on …

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How Wealthy New Englanders Fight #ClimateChange

It was last January that we noted the Westerly Ranch House project on one of my favorite shows, This Old House. The [ughh!] Magnolia Network is, this Saturday morning, running reruns of This Old House, season 41, originally broadcast in 2019-2020, a major, expensive, remodel of a home in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. Westerly is a …

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