Electric vehicles are flaming out —let’s ‘Make Internal Combustion Engines Great Again’

If you are a builder, promoter or buyer of electric vehicles, good for you. Science and technology do march on. But occasionally, at what cost? 

While it’s quite easy to understand the rationale for building EVs — perceived innovation, business plans, and profit — it’s still natural to question the promotion and purchasing of said vehicles. At least for some. 

Much of the EV market is still wrapped around “virtue signaling” as it relates to the ever-moving target of “climate change.” The entitled, lecturing left in Hollywood certainly buys into that narrative, as almost every movie we see these days features an EV or hybrid driven by one of the main characters. “See,” they signal. “We are all about protecting the environment.”  

Really? Not so fast.  

A serious question for Hollywood and the EV huggers is this: what if a percentage of those vehicles are ultimately worse for the environment? Or more costly, more dangerous on the highway, or a fire hazard? 

The latter concern was recently the subject in a piece for The Washington Post, titled: “They were told to park outside. Then their cars burst into flames.” But it was the laugh-out-loud sub-headline that betrayed the lengths some will seemingly go to in order to protect the carefully cultivated myth about electric vehicles. “Modern vehicles don’t need to be moving — or even turned on — to catch fire. That’s fueling lots of safety recalls and tough choices.”  

You simply can’t make this up.  

The piece goes on to stress that the danger of these “modern vehicles” —no specific mention of “EVs,” just “electronics” — bursting into flames while not running has grown so high that “park........

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