Comments by "rob shirewood" (@robshirewood5060) on "This Will NEVER Work ⁉️🚑" video.

  1. A friend of mine who was in the West Midlands Ambulance Service on a Coventry and Warwickshire contract, had his ambulance catch fire due to an electrical fault. If he had already taken on board the two wheel chair patients and the other six walkers (slow walkers) most of them would be dead now, as he would have had to open the rear doors to get to them from the rear, release the locks on the chairs (floor rails) and seat and shoulder strap locks, and then remove one chair, go outside, get the other, then go back into bring out the other six. The flames or fumes would have killed most of them including him. The flames took hold where he had been driving, molten plastic dripping by his feet, and burst up from the control panel. So he wisely exited, having had to fight to remove his seat belt which jammed, then removed his gear and his personal sat nav (mounted on the windscreen) by reaching into the flames, then exiting the vehicle fully, grabbing a fire extinguisher on the way. He tried to fight the fire, but the extinguisher failed to work (servicing contract had not been continued). Fire Service arrived and put out the flames. The ambulance was a wreck. Not the first ambulance in WMAS to catch fire. Now imagine if that had been an electrical vehicle fire and the battery had caught fire as they seem to tend to do, with people on board. i have another comment to make that he referred to me with reference to very cold weather too.
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  2. My friend who served in the West Midlands Ambulance service, also formerly RAF and Army, with considerable survival training and experience, considers electric vehicle to be death traps. Not only from spontaneous fires in batteries etc but also in the cold. Some of his jobs with WMAS took him from Birmingham down into Wales and Herefordshire distances of well over 170 miles or more in a shift. With the limited range of an EV that would have been impossible. Secondly he travelled those distances in severe ice and snow conditions, with lights on for safety, and heater as well for patient comfort. That would put a considerable drain on the electrical power available, leaving no viable reserve for other contingencies such as extended shifts. The EV would not have the reserve power found in diesel or petrol vehicles to deal with the icy and snowy conditions plus the load carried, and extra pulling power to get up hills such as Malvern etc or to drive out of deeper snow or on ice or muddy, icy roads. This is where his survival experience comes to play, he has broken down in snowy conditions in military vehicles, and civilian vehicles, and had to stay where he was in some very inhospitable country, in one case digging a snow hole in a blizzard, in two cases where no other vehicles could get to him Brecon Beacons in Wales and also Scotland. An electrical vehicle cannot sustain heat, where a petrol or diesel vehicle can, it cannot cook food or hot liquid on its engine (manifold heat), it cannot run the engine to keep the vehicle heated. The diesel or petrol vehicle can have fuel removed, siphoning etc to make an external fire for signalling for rescue location, heating snow for water, cooking food, a fire for heating passengers if the engine cannot run etc. He always carried a full survival and medical kit with him and food and drink for up to six people, he was also trained as a Nurse and Emergency Medical technician, so this man knows what he comments on from live experience and a great deal of foresight and planning. I have to agree with him i think electrical vehicles or ambulance are potential mobile fridges and death traps to those who get caught in deadly weather conditions which DO happen in the UK. The whole idea is a disaster in the making by people who do not have the imagination or experience on the ground.
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