{"id":325857,"date":"2024-05-04T12:11:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T10:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=325857"},"modified":"2024-05-04T12:11:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T10:11:40","slug":"ev-hell-continues-crash-victims-might-have-to-be-left-to-die-hertz-dumps-another-10000-cars-tesla-sacks-whole-charging-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=325857","title":{"rendered":"EV Hell continues: Crash victims might have to be \u201cleft to die\u201d, Hertz dumps another 10,000 cars, Tesla sacks whole charging team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"325861\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=325861\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/OIG-13.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/OIG-13.jpeg?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/OIG-13.jpeg?resize=550%2C550&amp;ssl=1 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2024\/05\/ev-hell-continues-crash-victims-might-have-to-be-left-to-die-hertz-dumps-another-10000-cars-tesla-sacks-whole-charging-team\/\">JoNova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2024\/05\/ev-hell-continues-crash-victims-might-have-to-be-left-to-die-hertz-dumps-another-10000-cars-tesla-sacks-whole-charging-team\/\"><strong>By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" data-attachment-id=\"325859\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=325859\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-79.png?fit=600%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,415\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-79\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-79.png?fit=600%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-79.png?resize=600%2C415&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-325859\" style=\"width:760px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-79.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-79.png?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chronicling the collapse of the Big-Government-made EV bubble<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In today\u2019s EV obituary column, Elon Musk has dropped a bombshell. Two months after Telsa chargers became the industry standard (which promised to save the other car makers) his profits fell, and he\u2019s fired the entire EV charging team overnight. Hertz, meanwhile, has realized that<a href=\"https:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2024\/01\/hertz-to-sell-one-third-of-its-evs-customers-dont-want-them-and-they-cost-too-much-to-fix\/\">&nbsp;dumping 20,000 electric cars in January<\/a>&nbsp;was not enough, and it has to offload another 10,000 electric cars, which now amounts to half its EV fleet. And then comes the news that there might be a secondhand \u201ctimebomb\u201d coming at the eight year mark when most EV battery warranties run out and cars will become \u201cimpossible to sell\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As if that\u2019s not enough, this week the fire and rescue experts in NSW are warning in the politest possible way, that they might have to do a \u201ctactical disengagement\u201d of a car accident victim, which means leaving them to die in an EV fire if the battery looks likely to explode. They say that first responders need more training, as if this can be solved with a certificate, but the dark truth is that they\u2019re talking about training the firemen and the truck drivers to recognize when they have to abandon the rescue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedriven.io\/2024\/04\/30\/ev-crash-victims-could-be-left-to-die-in-battery-fires-without-training-for-responders-inquiry-told\/\">EV crash victims could be left to die in battery fires<\/a>&nbsp;without training for responders, inquiry told<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson,&nbsp;<em>The Driven<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NSW government\u2019s Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Batteries Inquiry heard testimony from fire and rescue services, paramedics, the Motor Traders\u2019 Association, and TAFE on Tuesday in its second public hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the most serious incidents, firefighters said crews could be forced to abandon rescues or crudely rescue passengers from vehicles, and were being left \u201cflying blind\u201d at battery fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VRA Rescue NSW Commissioner Brenton Charlton told the inquiry worse outcomes were also possible, including battery explosions in which a rescue operation would put emergency workers at risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to prepare ourselves and our volunteers\u2026 for the point in time we have to do a tactical disengagement, meaning if someone\u2019s trapped and it does high order (explode) you might not be able to do anything,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat will be a tragic, horrible thing to take part in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just like that, Elon Musk fired the whole Tesla EV charging team, throwing the industry into chaos because Tesla network is the best by far and the bedrock of the so called \u201ctransition\u201d. Tesla had agreed to open its charging network to other EV makers only recently, and Joe Biden was delighted. Tesla is getting subsidies to expand it\u2019s North American Charging Standard (NACS) system. But this move has shaken the whole industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/articles\/tesla-layoffs-shake-confidence-in-the-ev-charging-future\/\">Tesla layoffs shake confidence in the EV-charging future<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By David Ferris, E&amp;E News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a single stroke, CEO Elon Musk called his company\u2019s vaunted charging reliability into question when he laid off most or all of Tesla\u2019s Supercharger team, the people who made Tesla the envy of the EV industry. The network they built is bigger, faster, smarter and more reliable than any other company\u2019s \u2014 and has become the linchpin of the auto industry\u2019s plan to persuade millions of Americans to buy EVs and turn the tide on climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt feels like the rug just got pulled out from under a lot of the industry alignment that has been built in the last 12 months,\u201d said Matt Teske, an industry veteran and CEO of Chargeway, an EV-charging software platform. \u201cAnd leaves us on shaky ground.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2022, as traditional automakers finally started delivering a substantial number of EVs to the roadways, they ran into a problem. Their drivers couldn\u2019t use Tesla\u2019s chargers, because they were meant only for Teslas. And the public networks had an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/articles\/why-americas-ev-chargers-keep-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">array of reliability problems<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ford was the first automaker to hit on the solution. Last spring, it struck a deal with Tesla to use its 12,000 U.S. charging stations and committed to building Tesla\u2019s charging technology called the North American Charging Standard, or NACS, into its future vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other automakers followed suit in short order. By February, Tesla\u2019s NACS had become the industry standard, with virtually every automaker planning to redesign their charging systems to meet Tesla\u2019s specifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1785406795814510785\">Elon explains it\u2019s just a change of pace:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tesla still plans to grow the Supercharger network, just at a slower pace for new locations and more focus on 100% uptime and expansion of existing locations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the crowd is baffled. People are mostly aghast\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Hertz debacle truly might become an obituary<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/joannenova.com.au\/wp-content\/Hertz_Logo.svg_.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/joannenova.com.au\/wp-content\/Hertz_Logo.svg_.png?w=723&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Hertz logo\" class=\"wp-image-94063\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally Hertz was going to buy 100,000 wonder-cars which would be cheap to fix and popular with punters. But the future fleet only reached 60,000 cars and is now reversing back to 30,000 cars which tourists apparently don\u2019t want to rent much, and which cost twice as much to repair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not surprisingly, it\u2019s a financial ruin. Hertz shares have lost three quarters of their value since 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company was an $11 billion dollar company in 2021 when it announced the mass EV purchases \u2014 it is now a $1.4 billion dollar company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/premium.goauto.com.au\/hertz-drops-more-evs\/\">Hertz drops more EVs<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RENTAL car giant Hertz, has announced that it is selling off 10,000 more EVs than it planned in January when it set out to stem the tide of massive depreciation that hit its fleet of 60,000 EVs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rental car companies need to be able to sell off their ex-rentals for a reasonable sum, but just as Hertz realized it couldn\u2019t afford to repair these cars, it also realized it couldn\u2019t sell them either:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026the program came under stress when Tesla began discounting its cars last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This set off a tsunami of depreciation for existing Tesla owners; including Hertz, which had the biggest exposure of anyone. In turn, other EV makers followed suit with discounts and retained values for all EVs became a race to the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And as word spreads, possibly no one else will be able to sell them either. What is an 8 year old EV with no battery warranty worth? It\u2019s pot luck whether it will keep going or suddenly need a \u00a315,000 repair\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisismoney.co.uk\/money\/mailplus\/article-13367571\/The-used-electric-car-timebomb-Tens-thousands-EVs-soon-impossible-sell-batteries-wont-affected.html\">The used electric car timebomb \u2013&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;EVs could become impossible to sell on because battery guarantees won\u2019t last \u2013 find out if you are affected<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By&nbsp;TOBY WALNE,&nbsp;<em>This is Money<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Money Mail can today reveal a timebomb looming in the second-hand market for electric vehicles (EVs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our investigation found that many EVs could become almost impossible to resell because of their limited battery life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Experts said that the average EV battery guarantee lasts just eight years. After this time, the battery may lose power more quickly and so reduce mileage between charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In some cases, the cost of a replacement battery is as much as \u00a340,000. For certain EVs, the cost of replacing the battery could be ten times the value of the vehicle itself on the second-hand market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet geniuses in government still want to push us all into EV\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With uncanny timing the Australian Albanese government is about to<a href=\"https:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2023\/12\/australian-government-is-coming-for-your-utes-suvs-and-cheap-fuel\/\">&nbsp;launch emissions standards we don\u2019t need<\/a>&nbsp;to force people to buy a product they don\u2019t want, in the hope, so they say, of stopping some storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The insanity would be hard to fathom if EV\u2019s weren\u2019t also the ideal&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2023\/12\/big-car-data-insurance-insider-warns-they-want-to-force-you-into-an-ev-ban-insurance-for-petrol-cars-and-track-you\/\">tool for spying, data collection, law enforcement, and political control<\/a>. Benefits that can launch a thousand political careers\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com\/2024\/05\/01\/the-used-ev-timebomb\/\">Paul Homewood of Notalotofpeopleknowthat<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s EV obituary column, Elon Musk has dropped a bombshell. Two months after Telsa chargers became the industry standard (which promised to save the other car makers) his profits fell, and he\u2019s fired the entire EV charging team overnight. 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