Not Again...

[ocnblu]

16 of them caught fire and exploded after being caught in the storm surge at the port: http://updates.jalopnik.com/post/34669789863/more-than-a-dozen-fisker-karma-hybrids-caught-fire-and

[David]

WOW, Either the other Auto Companies are truly using the storm to destroy this company or they really have an electrical problem. I know there are news stories from the electrical company about shorts in the underground electrical vaults that have been submerged in salt water as to why they turned off other vaults to keep them from exploding.

Yet here you have a new car, not charging and when saltwater touches it, it goes boom and burns down. Sounds like a Total Recall for a re-engineering of the electrical system.

I would be surprised if the Gov allows these fire bombs on the roads.

[Robert Hall]

electrical components soaked in salt water = fire, apparently.

[Drew Dowdell]

Short circuit any high output battery long enough and it will catch fire.

[ocnblu]

Thanks for admitting that. I think we now have more fireball Fiskers than we had pyrotechnical Pintos. And apparently it is a trait shared by all electric cars. Imagine the death and destruction if these junkers were in customers' garages in the flood zone, instead of at the port. Unsafe At Any Speed.

Edited October 31, 2012 by ocnblu