Those electric cars are HOT! Smoking Hot!! You may get a new free home thanks The Volt, via your insurance company. If early investigation is accurate. Let's watch this story .....
BARKHAMSTED, Conn. -- Fire officials suspect an electric hybrid car may have sparked an overnight blaze in a garage in Barkhamsted on Center Hill Road.
Homeowner Storm Connors and his wife, Dee, said they awoke to the sound of a smoke alarm around 4 a.m. The couple said they have lived in the home for nearly 40 years. They built it and raised their children there, so when the flames took over their attached garage Thursday morning, burning it down to its beams, the couple started to panic. They said they were worried they were going to lose their home and the memories inside."I walked outside and looked in the garage door and it was flaming," Dee Connors said. "I grabbed a pocketbook so I'd have a cellphone and a driver's license and a jacket and a pair of slacks. I had no shoes, my feet were freezing."Within minutes of the 911 call reporting the fire, nearly 50 firefighters from surrounding communities headed to the scene.The Connors family said that response and the fact there was a firewall built between the home and the garage saved their home.After the fire was extinguished, the couple invited Eyewitness News into the home to see how effective the firewall was. Even the coats in a closet near the fire were unscathed -- not even blackened by smoke.Now investigators with the state fire marshal's office and the couple's insurance company are looking into what exactly in the garage sparked the fire.Officials said they can't rule out that the couple's brand new Chevy Volt hybrid had something to do with the blaze.The fire is under investigation.
on this blog, see: Electric Cars - Because electricity grows on trees ... ha, ha, ha
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The key word here is MAY have........
And a listener previously added this comment: Another thing to consider about the Volt is the cost of charging it, which one of your callers did mention earlier this morning. That $0.40 cost she gave is pretty much correct, I read less than a dollar at most sites and my own number crunching gave me $0.80. If this is true and that "230mpg" figure is also true, you could theoretically save $1,500 per year on gasoline, ALMOST enough to offset the cost of the ludicrously expensive battery you'll have to replace in 2014 (which, if they figure out battery technology by then, probably won't cost $10,000, but it will still be a lot).
Of course, electricity rates will probably rise considerably if plug-in cars really take off. Also, the new plug standard for plug-in hybrids allows for two-way communications between the car and your electric utility. This means that they will have the ability to someday to monitor how much electricity you're using to charge your car, and bill you at a different rate for it.
Before you jump all over the Volt, consider that there was a home-made Suzuki Samurai electric conversion parked next to it at the time of the fire.
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Rick, you are correct in that it could be the other vehicle. I did say "may." But I wish I would have seen the UK article. They are generally more accurate than much American media. Great blog. Thank you! ~ Rich
Here's an excerpt:
But an electric hybrid car might have been responsible for seriously increasing a green driver's carbon footprint after his garage burned down in a fire at his home in Barkhamsted, Connecticut.
Storm Connors's two electric cars, a nearly-new Chevy Volt and a converted Suzuki, were both charging in the garage overnight and firefighters believed they could have sparked the fierce blaze.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1377474/Green-drivers-hybrid-cars-sparked-garage-fire.html#ixzz1Ji18mO2T
between the smart phones,lap tops,and over priced golf carts being charged on 100 year old power grids..Not to mention all the other things that use the grids. and the best idea that liberals can come up with to create energy is from windmills and solar panels.. Great idea...Not..
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