Comments by "Engineering the weird guy" (@engineeringtheweirdguy2103) on "The Electric Viking" channel.

  1. Research and surveys suggest that the vast majority of EV’s owners made the switch for economic reasons (i.e. cheaper to operate). Than for environmental reasons. In fact. The environment was the fourth most likely reason for the switch, right behind driving experience.
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  2.  @justaskin8523  individually the impact might not be much. But over millions of people, the impact is substantial. At the moment, tail pipe emissions are so bad that if you live within 20km of a major freeway, your life expectancy drops by around 15 years. Imagine if even half of those cars become electric. You’d half that impact. Those emissions also cause brain development problems in children. And immunity complications if there is too much exposure for a newborn. Imagine if you could even just half those emissions. The kind of impact that would have. Yet alone the possibility of getting rid of nearly all of it.
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  3.  @jarrodf_ Tesla build quality is on par with companies like Hyundai, Kia, Honda, Ford, GM, etc.
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  4. Tesla are more certainly not looking into hydrogen.
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  5.  @ab-js2gw  and yet, according to the fire service, the MOT and multiple eyewitness videos showing the number plate. It was 100% a plain diesel car fire. And I can say that as someone with a masters in Mechanical Engineering. Not that you’d need an education to realise all the evidence points to a diesel car fire.
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  6.  @carlocalarco6718  and again, fire service said it was a diesel. They would have had access to all the CCTV footage they needed to confirm that. Eyewitness footage shows it was a Range Rover sport. The battery in RR sports hybrids are at the rear of the car. Only the evoke has it at the front. The front facing camera footage also captured the numberplate. E10 EFL. Which according to the MOT is a red Range Rover sports. As confirmed from the front video to be accurate. It also stated it had the TDV6 engine. The only 6 cylinder diesel Range Rover has ever used in its hybrids has been the SDV6 engine. According to range rovers website they have never made a hybrid with the TDV6 engine. Meaning it was definitely and straight and plain diesel. So that’s what I know, but you don’t need a masters degree in Mechanical Engineering to work those things out. Nor do you need to be a mechanic.
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  7.  @b3arwithm3 well it’s apparently very popular with everyone else. Tesla having some of the highest customer satisfaction and return rates of any car company. And more and more cars are shifting to the one big screen option. Like Volvo, BYD and Mercedes as an example. I would say, after spending more than a week driving a Tesla I now prefer everything in the screen. It now seems insane to me to have a physical button, taking up space and cost in a car for something like your mirrors, which are typically adjusted the once the first time you get in the car and are never touched ever again. To have a dedicated button that costs money and takes up space for a function I’d only ever use the once…. Insanity.
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  8. What maths? We all know it wasn’t a hybrid. Just some salty hate holes insist it was with zero evidence.
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  9.  @Kenneth-ts7bp  actually they don’t.
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  10. What are you talking about. Pretty much every small town except for the 1% most extremely remote towns are connected to nation grid electricity. Our energy grid is more than capable of coping with an increase in EV ownership. And lastly. I have an EV. It’s not even a long range and I take it with me when I go snowboarding. Multiple times every season. I also take it camping with me. I don’t really think you understand what you’re talking about.
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  11.  @carlocalarco6718  actually no. At first glance, it does look like it’s jetting out because of the glow the fires causing on the smoke around it. If you look carefully you see that there are flames coming up from the ground. Where some flammable fluid has leaked from the car, run to the side and ignited. EV’s don’t do that. If this were a battery fire, you wouldn’t see the ground on-fire under the car. But it becomes much clearing in the front footage. Next, it didn’t melt the concert. Images of the damage look identical to the damage done at carpark fires past. Such as the Liverpool echo park arena back when hybrids much less EV’s in that region made up less than 1% of all cars on the road. As it turns out, concrete begins to rapidly degrade at around 300C. Crumbling away and becoming brittle and weak, much like chalk. Steel reinforcement in the concrete also starts to anneal at 500C at which it loses around 75% of its strength. Making it about as useful for structures as a wet noodle. ICE car fires burn at between 800C-900C. Seeing as there were concrete reflectors to the top and bottom and metallic reflectors on the sides (other cars) that would have increased the temperature. Like furnace would. The carpark also wasn’t enclosed. Airflow would have been convected through powerfully by the heat of the fire, supplying it with more and more oxygen, much like a bellow for a fireplace. All this was described by the fire service.
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  12. They say that about every things. It’s so they can hike up prices. Just like coles and Woolworths said that covid has caused product prices to inflate so they jacked up their own prices and it turns out they made record breaking profit and the cost of items hasn’t actually increased. They just wanted the excuse to raise their own prices for more profit.
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  13. True but also not true. The customer wants an EV. They don’t want THEYRE EV’s. Simply because they aren’t competitive. Tesla has been making EV’s for the last 10 years. They also have a drastically different business model which has allowed them to have the highest profit margin on any car sold on the market today. So they can and have been cutting prices to stay competitive. The way they’ve manage that is they build their own car from the ground up. And the support network with it. Like the Tesla super charger network. That means every part in a Tesla is made by Tesla for Tesla. The programming, infotainment system, sound system. Motors. Seats, interior. Etc. Legacy automakers outsource that. They get someone else to design the infotainment system, and someone else to program it, someone else to build the engine, and someone else to design the interior and someone else to make the seats. They just assemble it. What that means is a lot of middle men taking a cut. Couple that with the fact that legacy automakers not only aren’t set up to make EV’s and don’t have the 10 years experience of making and perfecting EV’s, means not only do they produce a product that can’t compete with Tesla’s they’re also needing to charge more for it. So you pay a lot more to get a lot less. Not only that but legacy automakers sell exclusively through dealerships which charge a markup on the cars to make bank. Tesla sells direct toy the customer. So naturally consumers don’t want to pay a heap more to get a lot less. Where good EV’s have been dropped at a good price point, consumers have jumped on it. That’s why the Tesla model Y is the best selling new car globally in 2023. Which is why cars like Mercedes EV offering, the EQ, isn’t selling. Because even if the EQ was at the same price point of a similar sized tesla, it wouldn’t be competitive. It would have the range, performance, software advancements or charging infrastructure and network that the tesla has. But Mercedes is asking for an extra $150k for it. Plus another $12k for the dealer. And then wonder why it isn’t selling?
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  14. Firstly it didn’t melt the concrete. It degraded it, which happens at about 300C. ICE Cars burn at 800C. At that temperature the concrete crumbles away something about as tough as chalk. Steel anneals at 500C which is again, less than 800C. When steel anneals, it becomes VERY soft. You could bend reo like it was a bit of solder wire. Infact, for this very reason, a lot of steel formwork is done at the annealing point of steel. It wasn’t a hybrid. There is mountains of evidence to show it wasn’t. And not to suggest it was.
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  15. Really? Because between Q1 and Q3 of this year, EV market share in Canada increased from 10%-13%. And pro tip. If those apartments have secure parking. You can get chargers or PowerPoints installed to charge the car from. And a lot of work places are also offering that as well. And I had an EV while renting. As it turns out, electricity outlets are considered mandatory for rentals. Just like water. Or windows.
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  16. Actually the fire wasn’t near the battery and no. It wasn’t a hybrid.
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  17. Also worth mentioning it didn’t melt any steel and it wasn’t parked or even off. The videos clearly show the brake lights on. Meaning it was running and it also clearly shows it was in a lane, not a parking spot. So again. Not parked. Not off.
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  18. That must be why EV sales in general are increasing still, while ICE sales are decreasing. And the most popular new car globally is an EV… because they’re 💩. Logical.
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  19.  @padgepadgham3238  they’re dropping the S because they’ve stopping selling them in many places as they aren’t as popular as the cheaper models. Australia for example. Aren’t getting the S or X anymore. The price drop on, I assume you meant the y? But the price drops of the 3’s and Y’s was in response to other competitors hitting the market. And even with those price drops, Tesla is still making the biggest profit margins if any automaker off their vehicles. If you look at Tesla sales figures, they havn’t had any trouble moving the model 3 or Y, even at the higher price points. That’s why the model Y is the best selling new car globally in 2023. And I’ve never had any trouble insuring my Ev, except for one insurer back when the model 3 first hit Australia. Know why they wouldn’t insure it? Because they insurers will only send your car to “pre-approved” repairers. But tesla and other EV’s need to go to repairers who have been trained how to repair them. Infact Tesla has a list of approved repairers to maintain your warranty if you have an accident. The problem that one insurer had was it had none of the tesla approved repairers on their “network” so they would t be able to repair the car the way they should. So I went to the next insurer and they were fine. Maybe reality isn’t agreeing with you kiddo. Oh, car parks huh? Like the Luton carpark fire started by a diesel car? The cork Ireland carpark fire stated by an ICE, the Swedish airport carpark fire started by a diesel? Like those carparks?
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  20. Diesel. Being a flammable fuel, doesn’t take much to ignite. Infact an engine bay usually operates at or above 70C. Diesel begins to gas off like petrol (flashpoint) at 50C. Diesel will self combust at temperatures above 250C. There are ALOT of components in a diesel engine that open hotter than that. But here’s what we know. We know the fire service, who has access to licence plate checks and CCTV footage of the carpark, said it was a diesel car that caught fire. We know that there is eye witness footage from both the front and the back of the car showing it to be a model of Range Rover that doesn’t come in EV. We know that from one of those videos, you can clearly make out the numberplate. And search on the MOT website shows it to be a straight plain diesel. Not an EV or hybrid.
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  21.  @funfunyo7523  congratulations for repeating everything I just said back to me, just with more words. A few corrections tho. - The flashpoint is the temperature at which vapours are produced in enough quantity to sustain ignition of said vapours. - The autoignition temperature is the temperature at which it doesn’t need an ignition source. any diesel that reaches that temperature will combust. A thin layer or atomised mist will take a negligent amount of energy to heat up to the autoignition temperature and combust. Especially when coming into contact with things like the DPF and exhaust manifolds, both of which operate and temperatures exceeding 500C. As for the battery location for hybrids. Whilst that is true for the evoke, the car in question isn’t an evoke. As clearly seen from the front footage and found by the number plate. Both of which show it was a Range Rover sport. The location of the hybrid battery on a Range Rover sport hybrid is in the spare wheel well at the rear centre of the car. Aside from the fact that the MOT data on the numberplate lists the engine as an TDV6 engine type. The only V6 diesel engine Range Rover uses for any of its hybrids is the SDV6. No Range Rover hybrid has the TDV6 engine. So no, not a hybrid. Not an EV. A regular diesel car.
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  22. What waiting time?
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  23. It does when heated. Google flash point and auto ignition point of diesel. Then compare to the temperatures a engine compartment gets to and the peak operating temperatures of exhaust manifolds and DPF filters. Then look at Range Rover many MANY fire related recalls. And come back and tell me how impossible a diesel fire is.
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  24. Do you know what the term “annualised data” means? Or “per capita?” Nobody is stupid enough to count all fires and divide them up. They count the fires, then divide by the population. If you have 1 million car fires out of a population of 20 million combustion cars and 1,000 EV fires in a population of 100,000. When you annualise it or look at those numbers per capital, it becomes 5% of combustion cars caught fire and 1% of EV’s caught fire. So EV’s are less likely to catch fire. Understand the difference?
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  25. Water vapour is, but it doesn’t last long enough in the air to have last effects. It usually evaporated into clouds, which then rain, that water either going into the ocean, or into the ground and stored in springs or underground reservoirs. I’m not too fussed about Chile since the majority of the worlds lithium comes from Australia. But nevertheless, brine extraction is not the only way to collect lithium. Infact a pilot plant is being set up in Nevada for clay extraction of lithium from ground clay in Nevada. If successful, one field in Nevada alone could produce enough lithium to supply the EV market for the next 50 years.
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  26. Well the gen 2 had larger tanks than Gen 1. So technologically not a huge improvement. That being said, it’s been almost half a decade since the Gen 2 was announced and released. Since then nothings changed. If you run out of fuel in an ICE it’s a cheap jerry of fuel to get you back in the way, in an EV it’s anywhere with a PowerPoint (public carparks, parks that have gardeners PowerPoints etc). Or a small portable generator with a little fuel…. With a hydrogen car. It’s a tow truck. In an EV if I wanted to go somewhere without a charging network I can just slow charge at BnB’s or anywhere with an accessible PowerPoint. With a mirai, you can’t go more than half a tank away from a fuel station. Just because they were shell franchises. Doesn’t mean they weren’t shell. And regardless of if it was the franchisee that closed it or shell. The results and implications are the same.
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  27.  @ChuckFreeman0102  other than a few high and mighty morons. The majority of EV’s owners, according to several surveys. Decided to go electric for economic reasons. Infact environment didn’t even make the top 3 at the 4th biggest reason.
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  28.  @crimsonlightbinder  why is you think “piano black” is the only luxury feature it offers? Never mind the fact that they don’t have piano black anymore. Havn’t since 2019. We’re talking about features like heat seats and steering wheels, automatic assigning drivers profiles, cabin preconditioning, electrically adjustable seats and steering wheels, contoured seats. Etc etc. those kinds of luxury features. Things that are extra in a normal are are standard in a luxury vehicle.
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  29.  @VexingVelvet  you would be correct if the concrete was melted into glass. But it wasn’t. As it turns out at around 300 degrees, 2 things happen to concrete. 1.) moisture inside the concrete vaporises and explodes out of the concrete throwing chunks. That’s the popping you hear in the videos. 2.) concrete rapidly degrades At temperatures above 300 degrees. Rapidly turning it into something much softer and brittle, like chalk, that crumbles away. FYI, ICE cars burn at temperatures exceeding 800C. This also isn’t the first carpark fire in the world, often having identical looking damage, despite some being before even hybrids were around. If it were hot enough to melt concrete, every car in the parking lot would have been a puddle.
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  30.  zoobrizz  not lies. I’ve seen it. People have even include it in videos about the fire. You can be salty all you want. It wasn’t an EV or hybrid.
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  31. In what world does any metric indicate that EV sales are creatoring? There still the only market sector in car making that’s increasing instead of decreasing. Sales this year are 50% higher than this time last year and 100% higher than this time in 2021. The best selling new car globally right now and for all of 2023 so far has been an EV. Are you high?
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  32. You do know that in 2022, 14% of all new car sales were EV’s? We’ve already well and truely passed the 10% mark you claimed was impossible. You should re-evaluate the trustworthiness of whoever told you that line.
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  33. Typically. ICE platforms and EV platforms are not interchangeable. If you put an EV into a ICE platform, not only are they more expensive, they’re less reliable and perform worse in key metrics like range, performance, handling, charging and cargo space.
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  34. Actually just Mercedes EV’s. EV’s sales in general are still increasing year on year. Infact the most popular new car in globally in 2023 is an EV.
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  35. Except this was 100% a diesel car. Nobody said it was the diesel that started the fire. Never the less there are plenty of instances of just that as well. Hell Range Rover is well known to be fire hazards. Especially with diesel if we look at the amount of fire related recalls they’ve had for their regular diesel cars.
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  36.  @carlocalarco6718  well no. It’s not typical of an battery fire. Additionally it was a Range Rover sport according to the numberplate collected from one of the videos. The battery on a RR sports hybrid is under the rear boot. Where a spare wheel might be kept. Not at the front of the car. It’s only in that position for newer model evoke hybrids. Which it was not. Visibly it an evoke. Additionally searching the MOT against the numberplate tells us it was a 3.5L, 6 cylinder diesel with a TDV6 engine variant. According to Range Rover they’ve never used the TDV6 engine in any hybrid they’ve ever made. The only diesel 6 cylinder they’ve ever used on a hybrid has been the SDV6 engine variant. So not. Not a hybrid either.
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  37.  @jarrodf_ and a lot of the tech isn’t overhyped. A lot of car manufacturers are now going down the minimalistic one big screen design line due to Teslas popularity. Also Teslas Over the air updates (OTA’s) are further ahead than any other car brand, (Tesla gets an OTA every couple of weeks, kia has had 3 in as many years. Because Tesla makes the software and hardware, companies like kia and Mercedes sun contract out the software to one person, computers to another and hardware to another. So nothing talks to one another). Another consideration is that Tesla has taken things like app functionality ALOT further than any other car on the market. And have used their OTA’s and functionality to impliment things like Dog mode, climate keep, sentry mode, camp mode, and other things that other companies have yet to offer. Some features are over hyped but many are not.
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  38. Based on what data exactly?
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  39. It wasn’t
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  40. Why? EV’s are 20-50 times less likely to combust into flames for no reason compared to ICE. Also, EV’s generally perform better. Cheaper to run. Last longer and require less servicing than an ICE. Like it or not, but for a lot of applications, ICE is Betamax.
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  41. Modern EV batteries are designed to last twice as a long as an IC engine. EV battery warranties alone are nearly 10 years. Meanwhile the industry standard warranty for a brand new combustion engine is only 5 years. Also the Tesla model 3 has the lowest 5 year depreciation of any car in history. That sorta conflicts with your theory about resale value. I think maybe you havn’t looked up the facts and are spitting random BS you make up in your brain and decided you wanted it to be fact.
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  42. And yet. All evidence points towards a plain diesel
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  43.  @bunsw2070  read where exactly. Because according to eye witnesses, it’s the same scene they saw. And for them to have AI generated an accurate layout of the carpark at the level the fire started. Before it was revealed where the fire started is a hell of a coincidence. And for the fire service to also confirm it was a diesel Range Rover. They didn’t say hybrid or EV. They said diesel. It also is puzzling that if they did Infsct AI generate it with someone else numberplate. A very real number plate belonging to a very real person. The police likely got in touch with them. So would have every news outlet at the time. And that person would have had every right to say it wasn’t them to the media AND launch deformation law suits against any news outlet who used that footage. Funny that I didn’t see any of that going down.
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  44. Modern EV’s have ranges around 330 miles. Like the Tesla model Y long range. But you typically charge it at home overnight when you’re asleep and not using the car. 0 time wasted or waiting for a charge and a full tank every morning. Unless you travel more than 330 miles for work every day. Which I doubt. The model Y is also a mid sized SUV which is renowned for having more cabin and passenger space than any other SUV in its class and 300L more boot space than its nearest competitor in class. Plus a drop out under the boot and a front trunk not included in that number. And it costs about the same as a Ford Bronco. As for battery replacements. The total cost to replace a Tesla battery including labour is around $12k. Which is about the cost of a new engine. But the warranty on the battery alone is nearly 10 years. And is supposed to last about twice the lifespan of an ICE engine, which make sense consider the industry standard ICE engine warranty is only 5 years. As for repair costs, the Tesla is classed as a luxury vehicle up there with Audi and BMW. Comparing repair costs for panel damage. The cost is about the same compared to its competitors. It doesn’t have any maintenance costs so you can’t compare a cost for engine or transmission repairs because it doesn’t have any. The electric motors should last the lifetime of the vehicle without ever needing to be touched and since the battery is apart of the chassis the only way you’d damage it is if you had an accident hard enough to damage the chassis, which would be expensive no matter what car you were driving. The only increased repair cost you’ll get is if the rear left quarter is damaged as that’s where the charge port is. In that case you add 12% to the cost and you’ve roughly estimated the additional cost of repairs to that part of the car.
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  45. It wasn’t. We already have their number plate. And news outlets can’t publish people identities without consent. Nor can emergency services just hand out private information whilly nilly. Try taking a number plate registration to the police and ask them for their personal details. See how far that gets you.
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  46.  @teardowndan5364  second video of the car has plenty of black smoke. Sorry.
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  47. Well it didn’t melt any part of the carpark but ok. Also no. That’s not what the footage shows.
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  48.  @JohnSmith-sj2dk  no. That would be correct on an evoke. But it’s a Range Rover sport according to the headlamp configuration and the numberplate. On the Range Rover sport, it’s under the boot compartment. Just under where a spare tire would be. Not at the front of the car. What IS where the fire is shown, is the DPF, exhaust Manifold and the AC unit. AC coolant is flammable, so is fuel, brake fluid or any plastics or insulation that might dislodge and come into contact with the manifold or DPF both of which can operate well above 1,000C. Infact Range Rover has a slew of recalls for all the above mentioned problems. Aside from the fact the numberplate, when searched against the MOT, shows that particular diesel Range Rover has a TDV6 engine. The only diesel V6 engine Range Rover has EVER used in any hybrid is the SDV6. They have never used the TDV6 engine in a hybrid. According to Range Rover website AND Wikipedia.
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  49.  @JohnSmith-sj2dk  fyi, nothing melted. If it did we’d see puddles, not rubble. Concrete, as it turns out, degrades rapidly At temperatures exceeding 300C. Becoming crumbly and brittle, like chalk. Steel on the other hand anneals at 500C. Losing around 75% of its strength. Allowing you to bend concrete reo bar like fence wire. A typical ICE car burns at between 800C-900C. Science bro.
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  50. What about what the fire service. MOT, and eyewitness footage tells you?
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