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U.S. Congressmen’s Report: The “Preponderance of Evidence Proves” the Virus Leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology

by Will Jones
3 August 2021 12:03 AM

A report from Republicans on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee of the U.S. Congress has said the “preponderance of evidence proves” the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology “sometime before September 12th, 2019”.

The Telegraph summarises some of the main points of evidence.

The Republican report cited what it called under-reported information about laboratory safety protocols.

It detailed a request in July 2019 for a $1.5million overhaul of a hazardous waste treatment system, which was less than two years old. That request included maintenance on an “environmental air disinfection system”.

It raised questions about how well such systems were working in the months leading up to the outbreak, the report said.

The report said: “Such a significant renovation so soon after the facility began operation appears unusual.”

According to the report, satellite data in October showed a jump in visits to hospitals in Wuhan, along with a rise in people searching the internet for symptoms that could be linked to the virus.

It suggested the virus spread through Wuhan shortly before the Military World Games was held there in late October 2019.

In November, that event became an “international vector spreading the virus to multiple continents around the world” as athletes returned home, the report said.

The conclusions of this report are in line with earlier evidence set out on Lockdown Sceptics regarding the timeline of suspicious events and the smoking gun genetic evidence. This includes:

  • Medical doctor Steven Quay and Emeritus Professor Richard Muller wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal in which they set out what they believe to be “the most compelling reason to favour the lab leak hypothesis”: the fact that SARS-CoV-2 has a genetic feature, a “double CGG” furin cleavage site, that has never been observed in natural SARS-like coronaviruses, but which is the preferred feature for scientists when engineering viruses in the lab because it is simpler and more familiar to engineer and can then be used as a tell-tale marker of the engineered virus when tracking it.
  • Virologist Dr David Baltimore explains: “When I first saw the furin cleavage site in the viral sequence, with its arginine codons, I said to my wife it was the smoking gun for the origin of the virus. These features make a powerful challenge to the idea of a natural origin for SARS2.” 
  • Dr Angus Dalgleish has argued that: “The laws of physics mean that you cannot have four positively charged amino acids in a row. The only way you can get this is if you artificially manufacture it.”
  • When the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s “bat woman” Dr Shi Zhengli and colleagues published a paper in February 2020 with the virus’s partial genome, the double-CGG furin cleavage site section was in the part of the genome omitted (though could be seen in the accompanying data).
  • The U.S. National Security Council, after reading an April 2020 paper in which Chinese military researchers studied SARS-CoV-2 using humanised mice, deduced that the mice involved must have been engineered some time during summer 2019. “Humanised” mice are typically repeatedly exposed to an engineered virus in order to accelerate the process of adaptation to humans. SARS-CoV-2 has been noted for how well it was already adapted to humans when it was first identified in Wuhan.
  • On September 12th 2019 the main WIV database of sequences and samples was taken offline without warning or explanation and all requests to restore access to it have been refused. All 16 WIV virus databases were subsequently removed.
  • A high-security part of the WIV appears to have had an emergency shutdown on October 7th 2019 for 18 days.
  • WIV researcher Huang Yanling disappeared in late 2019 and the WIV falsely claimed she had not worked at the institute since 2015. The U.S. has suggested she may be “patient zero”.
  • A leaked Chinese report looked back at hospital records and suggested the first patients infected with COVID-19 were being admitted to Wuhan hospitals in October.
  • A U.S. military intelligence dossier which came to light in April 2020 documented a runaway epidemic in the Hubei region (of which Wuhan is the capital) in November (though the Pentagon has denied the existence of this dossier). Regional newspaper reports also suggest Covid was already circulating in Hubei in mid-November.
  • In the U.K., the first official fatal infection was caught in England in December 2019, while the team behind Imperial College’s REACT study has reconstructed the infection curve in England from antibody data and symptom reports and found infections occurring throughout December 2019 and also back into November.
Tags: CongressLab leakRepublicansWuhan Institute of Virology

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 year ago

That should provide enough pollution to offset all the so-called benefits of the buses.

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TheGreenAcres
TheGreenAcres
1 year ago

That doesn’t look like it will be helping the air quality in the area – quick double the ULEZ charge!

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NeilofWatford
NeilofWatford
1 year ago

Oh, joy!
Another nail in the Carbonocracy coffin.
Presumably every ebus will now be grounded?
Like airliners, they should have escape chutes fitted with the proviso all the passengers must be able to escape within 90 secs even if half the exits are blocked.

Last edited 1 year ago by NeilofWatford
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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 year ago

Overreaction – there are far more fires on diesel buses. I mean which of us can’t remember having to jump off a bus to avoid the flames at some stage during our lives? Or, come to that, having to jump off their bicycle when it caught fire?

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wokeman
wokeman
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

I almost bit 😂

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

It would be interesting to know what caused this, many bus fires start due to heat soak from the air brake compressor due to insufficient thermal isolation. Of course an electric bus can also have air brakes and a compressor.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago
Reply to  Tyrbiter

Don’t electric buses usually have regenerative braking to store the energy from the momentum back into the batteries?

Edited for clarity (I hope).

Last edited 1 year ago by soundofreason
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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago
Reply to  soundofreason

They will have, but also conventional friction brakes as well for low speed, heavy braking, or when the traction battery is full.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

there are far more fires on diesel buses

There used to be – when we were allowed to smoke on the upper deck.

Nah, I don’t really miss smoking with my schoolmates on the upper deck of the 362 or 363 bus.

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MTF
MTF
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

I don’t know about busses but it is true that there are vastly more fires per 100,000 vehicles started by diesel/petrol vehicles than electric vehicles.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/lithium-ion-battery-fires

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

I wonder if that’s true if we take into account the ages of these vehicles? Per 100,000 vehicles less than 5 years old?

I haven’t read your linked item yet – perhaps it addresses that.

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MTF
MTF
1 year ago
Reply to  soundofreason

A reasonable point but we are talking about fires being over 20 times more common in petrol/diesel than electric so age would have to make an enormous difference.

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JXB
JXB
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

The point being, petrol/diesel fires are easy and quick to extinguish, battery fires not so as they are runaway thermal reactions.

Also the sample size ICE v BEVs are not comparable.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago
Reply to  JXB

The diesel/petrol fires are two-part exothermic chemical reactions. The fuel and the air. Block out the air and cool the fuel and the reaction (fire) stops.

A lithium ion battery ‘fire’ is not combustion (though it can set light to other stuff around it). The energy is stored in the chemicals inside with no air required. Once the energy is being released in an uncontrolled way it will continue. You can try to dilute it with water but the best bet is to isolate and cover the chemicals with something non-combustible like sand and wait for the reaction and heat to die down.

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
1 year ago
Reply to  soundofreason

I saw a video from Australia, where several e-bikes caught fire at night in a residential property. The fire brigade doused them and helpfully left them outside the property, where the morning sun prompted another explosive flare-up.

As I understand, the only sure way to extinguish these fires is to flood the battery with salt-water, thus shorting out the individual cells.

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MTF
MTF
1 year ago
Reply to  JXB

Both these points are addressed in the reference:

  • Yes they are harder to put out but at least in part that can be put down to firemen not being trained in electric vehicle fires.
  • The figures are per 100,000 vehicles so the sample size is irrelevant.
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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

Another aspect is the speed at which the fire proceeds, making it very difficult to get the vehicle away from other flammable objects and abandon it without injury. In some cases this is a major risk to people.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

Your reference’s reference separates out hybrid vehicles from electric vehicles:

‘Hybrid vehicles actually come in number one with the most fires per 100K sales.’

Hmmm…….

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MTF
MTF
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

Odd isn’t it? Maybe there is something about the design of hybrid vehicles.

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

Hybrid vehicles are constantly charging and discharging the battery. It is under greater stress and hence inherent faults are exposed more rapidly.

A fire in an EV cement mixer lorry in Australia was diagnosed as being caused by a single faulty cell among thousands. Nearly all of which combusted eventually after 10 minutes or so.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

Not really.

‘This interesting blend of power sources, although innovative and efficient, unintentionally generates a significant amount of heat. While this heat is crucial for the operation of hybrid cars, it also poses a potential threat to the integrity of the lithium-ion battery.

When a cell of this Lithium-ion battery overheats, it can enter a process called ‘thermal runaway’ ……when heat and gases fuel even higher temperatures and still more gases, including hydrogen and oxygen, in a self-fulfilling loop until the cells begin to burn and burst. A toxic vapour cloud develops, bringing with it the risk of deflagration. Once thermal runaway has started, no battery management system or circuit breaker can stop it. “A battery fire can be controlled but it cannot be extinguished,” 

Autocar Nov 2023

‘Combustion vehicles catch fire for a number of reasons, but the biggest is a collision. According to data from the National Fire Prevention Association, an estimated 560 people died in car fires in 2018, with the majority of these fatal fires caused by collisions.

You’re more likely to see a gas car fire after a collision than an electric car fire, simply because electric vehicles aren’t as common on the roads as gas vehicles. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that electric vehicles are less likely to catch fire.

Electric vehicles and hybrids tend to catch fire because of their batteries. Battery fires are dangerous and harder to put out than gas fires.’

Autoinsurance: Gas vs. Electric Car Fires Dec 2023

Field Marshal Haig knew a thing or two:

‘I feel sure that as time goes on you will find just as much use for the horse—the well bred horse—as you have ever done in the past.’ (1926)

Last edited 1 year ago by Monro
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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

‘I feel sure that as time goes on you will find just as much use for the horse—the well bred horse—as you have ever done in the past.’ (1926)

Lasagne?

Updated to add: That Monty Python sketch…

You can’t cook a piston engine!

You can’t eat it raw.

Last edited 1 year ago by soundofreason
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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Should be excellent but you’ll have to be quick:

‘In fact, Mr Leban is the French capital’s last remaining horse butcher and his establishment is on its last legs. “You can find horse meat in markets sometimes but I’m the capital’s last horse butcher,” says Mr Leban, a “cheval extra” label behind him beside rows of red wine.’

DT 28 Dec 2023

Last edited 1 year ago by Monro
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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

I was thinking more about the horse meat scandal.

The scandal being that the makers of the processed foods didn’t know what was going into them – not that it was horse meat.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  soundofreason

I’ve never (knowingly) tried it although I had my suspicions about some of the tinned (known as ggg: gopping green) goat meat in certain overseas ration packs.

Italians clearly prefer the combustion engine:

https://myitalian.recipes/recipe/horse-meat-with-mustard-and-thyme

Last edited 1 year ago by Monro
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MTF
MTF
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

I am intrigued by the down arrows. Is it because readers don’t believe the figures or because they simply don’t like reading anything that conflicts with their prior beliefs? Or maybe they just automatically click down on anything I write?

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

We don’t do that, and the figures should stand for themselves. Mind you I watched an interesting video where a Chinese BYD EV in China was fired 5m vertically when its traction battery exploded. It also blew the doors off 😜

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MTF
MTF
1 year ago
Reply to  Tyrbiter

What is it you don’t do?

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

I don’t automatically down vote you, although some of what you write I don’t think is properly evidenced. I’m this case I think the figures may be correct, although as ever statistics can be impenetrable.

In the China video, there was a Chinese guy asking why BYD cars often burn or explode after a crash. He pointed out that Teslas rarely do this and expressed concern that the Chinese-made vehicles seem to do it in a noticeable proportion of crashes.

Last edited 1 year ago by Tyrbiter
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MTF
MTF
1 year ago
Reply to  Tyrbiter

So when you wrote “we don’t do that” you meant “I don’t do that”? (Which is entirely reasonable).

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

I was hoping that others share my sense of fair play.

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MTF
MTF
1 year ago
Reply to  Tyrbiter

More seriously – I imagine that most readers here think of themselves as not being misled by alarmist MSM stories and making judgements based on data and evidence. It seems to me that in the case of EV fires the reverse is true – even Will Jones has fallen for the MSM stories.

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

I think we should ask why vehicle fires are reported so much these days, when they were not until the last decade or so. And then why is it that those same reports shy away from mentioning battery fires even when they definitely are EV or hybrid fires.

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MTF
MTF
1 year ago
Reply to  Tyrbiter

For example?

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

A combination of EV and Hybrid stats (and bicycles, scooters etc.) for fires make scary reading; both spontaneously combust as a consequence of battery technology.

Petrol and diesel cars mainly catch fire due to pilot error: collision.

References above.

Last edited 1 year ago by Monro
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MTF
MTF
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

So what? A combination of fossil fuel and hybrid would be even scarier.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

But that would be just plain silly because petrol cars are not combusting due to battery fires.

Hybrids and EVs are combusting for similar reasons.

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MTF
MTF
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

Why assume that hybrids are combusting for similar reasons to EVs when they combust at a rate like petrol cars?

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

Because that is where the evidence leads:

‘Both hybrid and electric vehicle recalls were all related to battery issues. This is a stark difference from the gas recalls, which were recalled for issues with fuel leaks, electrical shorts, and anti-lock braking systems (ABS).”

https://www.autoinsuranceez.com/gas-vs-electric-car-fires/

Last edited 1 year ago by Monro
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MTF
MTF
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

Recalls are not the same as fires. The number of recalls for the hybrid models was minute. So even if they were all for battery issues it doesn’t explain the large number of hybrid fires. After all if they were down to joyrides and collisions that would not feature in the recall data. The article draws quite unjustified conclusions from the recall data.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

Errrr…….the reason that the vehicles were recalled was because so many of them were catching fire when new…….

The recalls simply indicate the problem area: the battery.

Hybrids catch fire most frequently because hybrid batteries have a higher duty cycle than EV batteries, which leads to cells failing due to an internal short circuit.

The problem for EV proponents is that most people prefer hybrids to EVs, but hybrid technology is still high risk, expensive to insure.

Also statistical sample sizes in this area are still too small.

Last edited 1 year ago by Monro
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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  Tyrbiter

There are quite a few Australians on here.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago
Reply to  Tyrbiter

For a moment I actually thought you meant 5 miles… 🙂

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

Please don’t fall for the evangelist 20 / 1 ratio nonsense!
The biggest causes of vehicle fires are 1: arson 2: crashes
Youths who like to joyride with other people’s cars usually set them on fire afterwards, they have not and do not normally joyride electric vehicles!
More ice cars on the road = more ice crashes hence -fires
Petrol and diesel does not combust on its own for no reason, vehicle fires are usually the result of electrical or hot mechanicals problems not the fuel, are easy to put out and don’t poison the air or ground water with toxic chemicals!
The key word in the report you linked too is ‘involved’ not spontaneous combustion!

Last edited 1 year ago by Dinger64
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MTF
MTF
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

You seem desperate that there should be bad news about electric vehicles!

The 20 to 1 was for Sweden, the US figures are more like 60 to 1. Are you claiming that these figures are wrong or simply that they are explained by the propensity for electric vehicles not to be stolen for joy rides or crash?

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

There is no shortage.

Mr Dinger64 makes a good point. Joyride fires in petrol vehicles will account for a good percentage of those figures (and close to if not zero for EV/hybrids).

Last edited 1 year ago by Monro
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MTF
MTF
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

But isn’t that an advantage of EVs – less likely to attract joyriders and get into collisions (according to Dinger64) and therefore less likely to catch fire?

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

It would be if it wasn’t for the fact that they don’t attract joyriders because, frankly, they’re a bit rubbish.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

Sorry mate but facts are facts! Cars in general do not combust on their own, there is always an ignition point and then the fuel and oxygen take over, the cause of the ignition doesn’t care which vehicle it takes place in!
And btw, wide use of electric vehicles will be bad news for everyone as these hotter (2500°C compared to ice fuels 900°C) more destructive fires (fracturing reinforced concrete and melting structural steel) become more common place

Last edited 1 year ago by Dinger64
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MTF
MTF
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

I get that but are you disputing that fires are far more frequent in petrol/diesel vehicles than EV vehicles?

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

No need to dispute, its irrelevant, fire is fire, however, consequences of fire differ, ev fire are worse no matter the cause, if evs are involved the consequences will be worse!

Last edited 1 year ago by Dinger64
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Nicholas Britton
Nicholas Britton
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

The difference is that petrol/diesel vehicle fires are much easier to extinguish. If you catch the fire early you can put it out yourself with a fire extinguisher. With EVs, if the fire involved the battery, then it takes vast quantities of water to put the it out and the fire can re-ignite hours, days, or even weeks later. The fumes and water run-off are usually contaminated with toxic chemicals from the battery which can be a serious pollution issue. The batteries also burn a lot hotter than fossil fuels (over 2000 degrees Celsius) increasing the risk of the fire spreading to anything nearby. In short, an EV fire is a much more serious incident than an ICE vehicle fire and is a lot more costly for the emergency services to deal with.

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MTF
MTF
1 year ago
Reply to  Nicholas Britton

That’s why it is important to extinguish electric fires properly (not using vast quantities of water). See my reference and also soundofreason’s comment.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

There is no way to extinguish thermal runaway in a lithium-ion battery!
The official fire department advice is, let it burn itself out!

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Chips
Chips
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

Hi, I’m in the habit of clicking through and reading sources. For what it’s worth I drive an EV. You’re right, and also:

  • diesel/petrol vehicles are older, which somebody else commented on below. As your source states “In older vehicles, the wiring and batteries start to break down, putting them more at risk of catching fire in an accident. Since most electric vehicles aren’t yet at the advanced age of older gas vehicles, there currently isn’t any data showing if they will be at a higher risk of battery and electric explosions as they age”. I know somebody mentioned this elsewhere and you kind of dismiss it; there seems a reasonable risk as we get many more 5 and 10 yr old EVs, the stats can become less favourable by 20x or more…we just don’t know
  • age of vehicle can also be related to driving styles. If newer cars are more carefully driven, maybe that affects the risk and type of fires? I don’t even know if EV fires can be connected with a crash.
  • Here I’m speculating, but driving style could also mean battery care. Once EVs get older and are driven by poorer people then (as you see with older ICEs) you’ll get people eking out old bangers. I’m thinking aged bangers with batteries at 50% of original capacity…and people still trying to go 0-100% fast charge and use all the milage, which can accelerate further deterioration and stress.
  • As others have said, it’s not just the number, but the severity of fires. ICE fires can be extinguished, and the fume inhalation danger is trivial compared to burning lithium and manganese.

Also worth noting the summary / op-ed you link to isn’t very clear on its sources. Instead of linking to the actual data table, it takes you to the data repository, from where it’s going to take time I don’t have to find it. Call me a cynic but I’m always suspicious of that….I have previously found it’s like “I’m going to misrepresent something in a slightly subtle way and I’m just going to make it a bit harder for anyone to call me out.”

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robnicholson
robnicholson
1 year ago
Reply to  MTF

That one lost the room!

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JXB
JXB
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

Daily.

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Jon Mors
Jon Mors
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

You got me, until I read the last sentence (although, isn’t magnesium used in some cycle frames – I hear that burns pretty well).

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Mors

The oxide layer that forms on metallic magnesium inhibits burning quite effectively, The school (unless elfin safety has banned it) chemistry experiment where magnesium ribbon or powder burns bright white and gives off much white smoke only works with very thin metal. Of course, if you get a bar of it hot enough to break the oxide layer you’ll have an ‘interesting’ experiment – burning at 3,100 C.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Mors

I think it is a magnesium alloy not the pure stuff that was the delight of school kids.

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

I agree. Small fires occur approximately 3000x every second. Lethal.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

Apparently there are more people killed by donkeys than Aeroplanes. But ofcourse if you are never near donkeys (which probably most of us are not) then this statistic is meaningless. ——-So how many diesel busses are there and how many electric busses are there?

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

You almost had me there, Garvey young fella mi lad

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago

A London Fire Brigade spokeswoman told MailOnline: “Firefighters have been called to a fire involving a bus on Wimbledon Hill Road in Wimbledon.

“Part of a double-decker electric bus is alight. A 25-metre cordon has been put in place as a precaution and road closures are in place. There are currently no reports of any injuries.

“The Brigade was called at 7.21am. Three fire engines and around 15 firefighters from Wimbledon, New Malden and Wandsworth fire stations are at the scene.” …

OK. A couple of odd things here:

Thing 1: ‘Part of a double-decker electric bus is alight‘. Very odd. Many years ago a neighbours VW Beetle burst into flames. We certainly didn’t ask ourselves ‘is that flame coming from the engine or the fuel tank?‘. If this LFB statement isn’t lining up to suggest that it wasn’t the battery that spontaneously combusted then I’ll be very surprised. Mrs SoR immediately suggested they’re going with ‘it was one of the motors, not the battery‘. So that’s OK then.

Thing 2: ‘spokeswoman‘? This makes me almost certain that the spokesperson was born with a penis

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
1 year ago
Reply to  soundofreason

The bus in question has the electric motors in the wheel hubs, so the fire was either in the battery or something ancillary.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago
Reply to  soundofreason

I know we can vote without being logged in but I wonder what the down tick is for?

My guess is that it’s for ‘Thing 2’.

Spokesman is a neutral term but it has effectively been banned and replaced with the clumsy made-up portmanteau neutral term spokesperson. I can think of two reasons why the report uses the almost equally clumsy term spokeswoman instead:

Possibility 1: The LFB spokesman is actually a woman and the report writer has inadvertently used the non-neutral term.

Possibility 2: The spokesman ‘identifies’ as a woman and the reporter has deliberately chosen the non-neutral term to show how woke they are.

My guess is Possibility 2.

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago

‘They all do that, sir’

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JXB
JXB
1 year ago

BEVs – “Safe & Effective”™️

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

The way in which The Khant spins this should make for an interesting read.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Nice one! That will be interesting

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
1 year ago

Nasty fire with these batteries which is very difficult to put out. I think the whole thing is crazy. In a car you’re sitting on top of a giant battery. You are assured that there will never be a collsion because of ‘sensors’. This is cosetted thinking. The world is not going to be a smooth ride like it has been over the last few decades.In a few years time this battery technology will cease to exist along with many other things.You have to tune in to your spirit in order to find the sources of real and imminent danger and you can only do that when you have found your tribe. There will be no answers coming from the materium.

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lymeswold
lymeswold
1 year ago

I’ve been waiting for this to happen to a London bus. Maybe they could channel the flames coming from the rear to give the bus extra propulsion.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  lymeswold

No point, 20mph zone!

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D Jenner
D Jenner
1 year ago

Half an hour later and this could have been very serious. This bus is used by Kings College boys to get them up to school from Wimbledon station. Happened just the right side of 7.30am.

Last edited 1 year ago by D Jenner
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RPWisdom
RPWisdom
1 year ago

1000 EV busses over 10 years and one is at first sight sufficiently low to fob off. By 2020 consensus, we have 38m licenced vehicles on UK roads, suggesting (pro-rata) 3800 fires a year or 10 a day. Looking at NFCC, the estimate is 80,000 fires a year, though I have never heard of an ICE suddenly igniting unless in an accident. I think its the sudden combustion of EV without provocation that is a concern here.

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