Comments by "Matthew Nirenberg" (@matthewnirenberg) on "1 lost life and many injured in EV related cargo ship fire. Enough already...?" video.

What still boggles my mind is how do EV's pass safety compliance without having 100% mechanical door releases to ensure people can escape the vehicle in an emergency.
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@youbencowell That's only in the front on the Tesla Model 3 only. If you're in the back and something happens, you're screwed if you can't climb out the front windows. If you're tall and solid you're screwed. If the front is unsafe to exit via, you're trapped with no alternatives. There have already been several cases of people being burnt to death trapped in EV's when the batteries caught fire. The sick part is that the govt and safety regulators won't mandate 100% mechanical door releases because that would imply that EV's are unsafe and that would go against the official narrative on "climate" and "going green".
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@youbencowell Basically the vast majority of them are electrically operated via solenoids. The inside handle is just a button which sends a signal to a circuit board to trigger a solenoid to release the door. There are a few cheap bottom of the market EV's that have 100% mechanical door releases but the vast majority don't. Some examples are: most Tesla's, Audi E-Tron, Chevrolet Corvette, Ford Mustang Mach-E, Lexus NX, and the discontinued Lincoln Continental however there are many more.
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@djtaylorutube What non-EV vehicles have non-mechanical door releases? I haven't heard of any such vehicles except for EV's.
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@djtaylorutube I listed some EV's 6 comment replies above this comment. I know that for ICE vehicles basically 99.9% have 100% mechanical door releases as the latches both inside and outside are connected by a physical cable to open the door. So far only EV's have electronic latches that use solenoids to open the doors - the thing that looks like a latch / handle is a switch that sends a signal to a solenoid, not a physical cable.
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@wattouk In what country? What models? Except for the Telsa Model 3 which has them in the front only (the people in the rear are screwed), basically no other EV's have them because it isn't a requirement for EV's!
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@bid84 What a silly example. 2 door cars have larger doors than 5 door cars, and, the front seats have an easily operable manual mechanism to tilt and slide forward. Try climbing from the back to the front in a 5 door car, its bloody difficult for anyone larger than a child and you have zero way to tilt or slide the seat forward.
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@NANIutd08 Even if a battery disconnect switch existed it'd be impossible to access due to the violent nature of EV fires and the heat they output. Either way, it only takes 3 seconds for a thermal runaway fire in one cell to spread to the entire battery and incinerate the vehicle. Then its just a waiting game for the fire to burn itself out.
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@maxtorque2277 Yet not a single ICE vehicle in AU, NZ, EU, JP, have electric door releases, they're 100% mechanical. The doors open without a battery connected to the vehicle, simply insert key, turn it then open the door by pulling on the handle. If what you said were true the doors wouldn't work on an ICE vehicle if the battery was removed from the vehicle, yet they work just fine. Stop spouting utter rubbish. As for your other comment, look them up yourself, they're out there and aren't hard to find (unless your govt is censoring your search results) and they made the news (EV crashes, instant fire because the battery got damaged). You're an EV shill who doesn't know what you're on about. This channel (Geoff Buys Cars) is clearly not for you.
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