As electric vehicle (EV) owners are now frequently discovering, manufacturers, including Tesla, do not stand by their products and the vehicles they produce can be quite dangerous. There have been multiple cases now where minor damage to the battery compartment of an EV has resulted in voiding the warranty of a vehicle, so the owner is on the hook for the entire and extremely costly repair. In addition, vehicle fires continue to be a subject of real concern for EV owners.

Two recent EV debacles should catch our attention.

The first is a story about a Hyundai Ioniq whose owner swerved to miss an object in the road. He was successful in missing it. Nevertheless, when he decided to have the car inspected after the incident the mechanic found minor scratches to the bottom of the plate covering the massive battery bay. The recommendation from the dealer and the insurance company was to total the car: It was not salvageable. Why? Because the protocol for a scratched, though not really damaged, plate over a battery on an EV is to replace the entire battery. The problem with this? The battery, at $61,000, costs more to replace than the entire car. The YouTube channel MotorMouth digs into this event in great detail and the video is worthy of your attention.

All cars bottom out on something, eventually. In the course of driving, one inevitably encounters dips in the road, or debris. On YouTube, seasoned mechanic Uncle Tony of Uncle Tony’s Garage has built a whole channel around examining this and other types of EV catastrophes. When a gas combustion engine car bottoms out, it almost never means ditching the car. Individual parts may be replaced and changed out. But not so for EVs. EVs are far more expensive to repair than traditional vehicles since the battery is situated directly below the seats and often runs the length of the vehicle.

The second story that is worthy of our attention is a New Zealand car fire. The YouTuber MGUY Australia took special notice of this event in which an EV (actually a hybrid) caught fire in a garage. Multiple eyewitnesses stated that the car caught fire first and then spread to the rest of the house. It was initially reported by local media that the car caught fire spontaneously.

Two days later, the government fire investigator emphatically stated that the EV did not cause the fire, suggesting it began on another part of the property far away from the EV. He went on to assert that there is no known cause for the fire, but that the vehicle was certainly not responsible. The obvious logical problem with this explanation is that if there is no known cause of a fire, you cannot rule out a cause. Yet ruling out a cause of this fire is exactly what the ruling class of so-called experts did in this case.

An eyewitness recorded the fire and the videos clearly demonstrate it was in the garage, near the vehicle, and had not spread to the house before burning there first. If you are wondering if the government fire inspectors lied, it would be hard to blame you.

Of course, our generation is not the first to place its hopes in electric powered vehicles. In the early 1900s, Thomas Edison attempted to create an electric vehicle (EV) powered by a lead-acid battery. Henry Ford was interested in the project and assisted Edison where he could. It was a miserable failure, however, not because the vehicles were difficult to charge (as there were charging stations littered all over New York City at the time) but because of the weight. The vehicles were so heavy that travel was limited. The cars were simply not practical. Batteries are extremely heavy, even today’s lithium-ion concoctions. Eventually, “electric” vehicles were passed over for the more reliable combustion engine.

Today’s modern lithium batteries come from the Asian market and are not only expensive to make and ship, they’re also fragile and heavy. Sometimes they weigh more than 1000 lbs. When they catch fire (as they do with some frequency—including three shipping fires just last year) they burn at over 3000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is enough to melt cement. In contrast, the gasoline engine has a top burning temperature of around 900 degrees in an open-air fire.

It sounds fantastic that so many elites in so many places around the world could be engaged in systematic lies about their pet projects, but that’s exactly what is happening. So many of the ruling class elites from various countries have bought into the program of greening of the globe that there’s no real need for coordination. To cover for their bad decisions, they have an interest in circling the wagons as self-interested protectors of their rule, their offices, and their benefactors. Besides, these elites are, in many cases, true believers in the climate change hoax.

The fragility and unreliability of EVs constitute such a predictable danger that Geoff Buys Cars has made a sport of it on his YouTube channel with a segment called “EV Car Fire Bingo.”

Much to the chagrin of the “green” propagandists, we now have reason to believe that oil may be a renewable resource and is not, in fact, a “fossil fuel” as a Syracuse chemical engineer recently wrote. But there has been research from others you might check out going back decades.

If this research proves to be correct, it will seem our governments and their piles of “experts” have been lying to us for a very long time. We can reasonably guess that the reasons for this ruse have to do with control and profit. A reasonable public would tell them to pound sand.

If you really want to save the planet and live a self-governing life beyond the control of such experts, you should drive an old vehicle. Better yet, learn how to restore one yourself and make it your daily driver.