EVS23: Vectrix vs. KILLACYCLE, A123 12v battery-Tape 3

New 3-wheel Vectrix compared with Bill Dube's KILLACYCLE; Bill exhibits sanguine good manners when asked if his KILLACYCLE can't maybe fly, too?
A picture of Bill's 9.1 kWh lithium pack, 11 parallel by 110 series cylindrical A123 batteries.

I recall one EV-enemy, one Mr. R. Craven, who used to attend CARB each time ZEV was up for reconsideration; purporting to be a fireman, Mr. Craven used to exclaim that "EVs would burst into flame when in acccidents, and we can't put them out", as I recall. But Bill's KILLACYCLE was in a small encounter with a van, with few ill effects; and of ALL the EV accidents, NOT ONE involves fire.

While Bill's pack is 9.1 kWh, that's the energy equivalent of less than a third of a gallon of gasoline. The real danger is gasoline fires, not batteries!!

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• KILLACYCLE
• EV1
• Rav4-EV
• BillDube
• Dube
• A123
• lithium

[mianersiyok]

even though they're not selling those there, THATS CUSTOMER SERVICE!! GM, you could learn from them.

About ev's on bursting into flames: THATS A BIG LAUGH! I don't burst into flames when I get shocked by an extention cord or something, and i'm full of methane. lol.

How did this 'fireman' test the alleged EV, douse it with gasoline and run in into a gas pump? lol.

[TheSolarmike]

The interviewer is arrogant. But he somehow knows the inventor of the cafe electric z2k "otmar" ? why is he arrogant?

[bigdamdog1280]

at 3:45 he show what an idiot he is. How stupid and dangerous a stunt it was done by a novice. blowing off his idiotic stunt that he need another ten feet to stop on the crash video. He need to just be a geek and leave the handling of the bike to a professional rider. Need to watch the crash video to see he was not in control when the bike started to hook. That much power on a sidewalk pure stupidity......

[quattro19tdi]

A123 batteries are really safe, they dont catch fire or explode.

Not that I've tried to burn them, but thats what they said in the manual for the A123's I bought for my RC cars..

Of course, if you short circuit them, the current is extremely high and that can cause fire.

[eatspaste]

of coarse in THAT wreck there was no problem. he said himself that he was only going 10 miles an hour. batteries explode,

[ManRayDali]

One year, we took down our X-mas tree after it had been set up for about 2 or 3 weeks, and decided to burn it in the backyard just for fun. With just a cigarette lighter held up to one little branch... in about 10 seconds it looked like someone had opened up the gates of Hell ! There was a massive inferno with flames about 25 feet high. It was scary how fast it happened. And there was no lighter fluid or anything else on it. Just one slightly dry fir tree. They really are extremely flammable.

[mianersiyok]

They said, your tree should be fine as long as you keep flammable liquid and blow torches away from it, alcohol too...

Something of that nature.. LOL, I thought that was hilarious.

[mianersiyok]

My comment just reminded me of something on the news I saw the other day. It was a segment on how flammable a christmas tree is...The fireman was demonstrating with a very fresh tree and he was squirting lighter fluid all over it and using a blowtorch to start it and it still was not going up in flames until after 25 seconds of holding the blowtorch to it. LOL, even the news anchors were chuckling at the clip.