Hi Mr. Kilmer. Thank you for the informative and fun videos about cars. Your enthusiasm is off the chains 🤣. Now, everyone seems all excited about the electric cars,trucks and many others but no one IMHO seems to talk or mention about their interaction with water. I live in a place prone to flooding after heavy rains and it got me thinking if some moderate fjording could be catastrophic to the motors. Last time I checked electricity and water do not mix. I can also imagine the ultra high voltage needed to drive those motors. I trust your opinion on matters motor vehicle. Thanks. Don't have an electric car but am planning on one....depending on your answer.
Thank you all for all your answers and video link. All are valid and they have helped me immensely. Grateful. 🙂
Well of course problems would exist if the various types of seals that are supposed to keep the electricity in the motor from being intruded by water go bad. And everything breaks over time. But they can talk how they want about electric cars unless they massively's been trillions on new power plants and electrical infrastructure the things would be absurd would be no place to charge millions of them and no electricity to use the charge in with
Thank you Scotty. Always an honor to get your opinion and interact with you.They should make an award for your contribution towards the automotive industry. 💡
Last time I checked electricity and water do not mix
Yes, that's true. But we still manage to make boats and submarines with electrical equipment on board.
Tesla plans to make cars out of aluminum and stainless steel, so presumably they won't rust away.
Good point.
Batteries are glued shut and so far no one had died that way.
As much as I dislike the idea of EVs, water doesn't seem to be an issue.
Your battery will die way before you'll have issues with the seals, also why would electricity pass though the human body? it shorts to ground (for an extremely short amount of time)
Side note, a concern I have is what if an EV is in a significant wreck, and the metal of the body crumples/bends near the battery in a way that it can short out the terminals on the battery. I could imagine that being an issue.
Each individual cell is fused