electric cars

[Benny2guns]

I see we have a bit of a language barrior bud. When I used the word gas I ment that stuff you get out of the gas pump at the gas station. I think you call it Petrol....liquid gas. The other type at the pumps here is Deisle fuel which does not explode or burn like regular car gas or petrol does. It has a far higher flash point.
When you talk about regular every day car gas or petrol it is not the gas in it's liquid form that readily burns, it's the fumes or the invisable gas that it turns into when it is left exposed to the air. Thats why when you are refueling your car at a petrol station you are supposed to shut your engine off,turn your cell phone off and put out your ciggeretts as these three items all have an ignition source for gas vapours.
When your car hits that wall at 60 MPH it comes to a sudden stop, everything under the hood is hot including the exhaust system. Electrical components may well be shorting and causing sparks, Gas line ruptures under pressure and the fuel vapours move forward at a rapid pace like everything else in a sudden stop at that speed. They come into contact with a heat source hot enough to ignite and there you have it.
You have to remember also that there are safty measures in place to try to stop this from happening. The problem is that in order for the car manufacturers to build new cars and increase fuel miliage while maintaining profits they had to reduce safty standards which is something you are not made aware of. Those crash test safty standerds we all know about and relate our safty to....well they are preformed at 15 kilometers per hour, thats around 9 MPH.

Aaaa i get you. Ok I admit defeat, you proved me wrong :rolleyes:. But crashes involving cars don't often involve explosions as that would be far too dangerous.


But euroncap (source) do their tests at 40 mph (front impact) and theyre the official testers in the EU. leepy:

I think electric are safer but anything involving speed can't be 100% safe.

Ok, so they are at 40MPH there, and I am not tring to prove anyone wrong but what is the speed limit on your highways?
Ours here are anywheres from 90 KPH to 110 KPH so where does any safty factor then come into play?
Then take into account that it is rare to find anyone traveling at the speed limit here, then take into account that most crashes on highways involve moving objects comeing in their direction.
I guess the point that I am tring to make is that the safty requirements are nothing more than a shame created to assist in the sale of the car. Gets the cash out of your pocket faster thinking it is a safe product.