Car and Driver on the Volt Fires

[Intrepidation]

Chevy Volt Hysteria: We’re All Going to Die! Or, An Application of Facts and Rationality to Flaming Batteries and Melting Chargers

One can learn a lot from history. When gasoline-fueled motor cars began roaming streets (and their proxies) in great numbers at the beginning of the 20th century, fuel tanks were thought to be ready to burst into flames if looked at sideways, and gasoline run-off was blamed for sewer explosions. Such fear and misinformation prompted the New York Times to release a piece in 1912 entitled “Gasoline Is Not Dangerous Fluid.” Action-flick writers excepted, people today generally understand that the internal-combustion engine’s fuel doesn’t explode. The lesson: New technologies have a way of intimidating and scaring the uninformed.

Continue reading (its a good read)

http://blog.caranddr...lting-chargers/

[Drew Dowdell]

Finally some sanity!