Have you ever been to Florida? It’s surrounded by saltwater and has suffered extensive flooding recently. It’s basically America’s wet dick.
You think electric vehicles are gonna last long in that state? Hurricane season is just getting started…
Someone didn’t read the article.
Florida is Number 2 for most EVs in the country.
You can’t have electric vehicles near the sea is wild take.
That just proves that Floridians are fucking stupid. They know they live in a major hurricane/flood zone.
Just look at the reports on the Cybertruck, they’ll just as soon quit running after a car wash, and that is not covered under Tesla’s warranty.
Sales there are very possibly higher partly because of flood waters ruining electric vehicles, and people going out to buy a new one after their old one gets ruined.
While I agree it’s mostly an unwise place to buy real estate or leave your possessions (just like any flood plane) I’m curious what makes it worse for EVs than for any other car (all of which are now rife with electronics and made of the same metals). Flooding will ‘total’ just about any car.
A flooded ICE vehicle may be salvageable, if the water level didn’t get high enough to reach the level of the computer electronics or get into the transmission. I’ve owned a couple actually.
But an electric vehicle, the battery pack is underneath the vehicle, so just a few inches of water, especially salt water, and it’s fucked, no chance of salvaging those at all. If by chance the water only affected the battery, it’s still effectively totalled out.
TL;DR - ICE vehicles can stand a chance, depending on the depth of the flood water, but electric vehicles do not stand a chance.
