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This video, very interesting, upgrading old Mitsubishi MiEV with new battery and assist technology, just the advantage from better understanding of how best to use electric power in the car is remarkable. Original 70km range, just under double the battery capacity, but with the new technology and understanding of how best to use EV's it actually gets up to around 240km range.

Oh yes, it's based in Brisbane as well, the EV industry seems to be moving forward in all ways in Australia despite the massive amount of FUD being spread by the usual suspects.

stevebrooks wrote: ↑Sat May 31, 2025 4:37 pm This video, very interesting, upgrading old Mitsubishi MiEV with new battery and assist technology, just the advantage from better understanding of how best to use electric power in the car is remarkable. Original 70km range, just under double the battery capacity, but with the new technology and understanding of how best to use EV's it actually gets up to around 240km range.

Oh yes, it's based in Brisbane as well, the EV industry seems to be moving forward in all ways in Australia despite the massive amount of FUD being spread by the usual suspects.

Nice to see the new battery is nearly double the capacity but physically smaller than the original.

Here's another interesting video on the Nissan Leaf, but instead of replacing the old battery it's actually involved with putting an extra battery in the boot to increase range from 90 miles to 168 miles. These EV mods are starting to get just like modding ICE cars these days, bolt in kits with everything you need, good to see it heading in that direction;

Ah yes FUD at its finest!

The floating inferno is said to have been caused by the lithium-iron batteries in the 70 electric vehicles on board – batteries that are can cause fires that can burn for weeks.

"said to have been caused," really? But definitely not from one of the 2000+ ICE vehicles on board, all of which carried combustible fuel?

There have been other car carrier fires, The Fremont Highway for instance with 3,783 vehicles;

The fire’s cause remains under investigation by Panama Maritime Authority with Dutch assistance. Early EV-related theories were dismissed as EVs were stored in unaffected areas.

The Grande Costa D'Vaoria;

At the time of the fire, the the ship was carrying around 1,200 vehicles and 157 containers, but no electric vehicles or hazardous cargo was on board.

The Felicity Ace with 4,000 vehicles with some of them being EV's.

The Panama Maritime Authority’s investigation report into the incident was submitted to the IMO in May 2022 but is not yet publicly available.

The Grimaldi’s Höegh Xiamen, carrying 2,420 used vehicles;

The NTSB investigation revealed the fire started due to an electrical fault from an improperly disconnected battery in a used vehicle.

All second hand cars, so likely not EV's, the text seems to indicate a regular lead acid car battery.

Anyway there's more, but the common factor seems to be that they were all at the time carrying ICE vehicles, but interestingly they weren't all carrying EV's, of any type, so if car carrier fires were occurring before EV's and were quite common, why are EV's suddenly being blamed every time there's a car carrier fire? In fact one was clearly revealed to not be caused by the EV's being carried, which were all safe. Not saying they may not be responsible in some cases, but to immediately blame the EV's being carried is simply ignoring the fact that car carrier fires were happening long before EV's came along.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/moto ... 204041462a

Another interesting episode from Everything Electric, and once again I can only feel embarrassed at Australia's progress on climate change and renewables, we have been basically shafted by successive governments going slow in this area. The only bright point is Australian rooftop solar penetration, but we could be doing so much more. In fact China's has passed peak fossil fuel and is now showing decreased emissions year on year despite power consumption also increasing year on year.

Sodium Ion batteries, they look interesting and are getting a big push in China, lower energy densities are a problem but that appears to be a problem that's solved or perhaps worth ignoring for the lower price they are available at, claimed costs of $10kwh compared to $100kwh for Lithium Ion could be a game changer.

But Sodium Ion do appear to be one new battery development that is actually going into production, compared to the next year or maybe two more years neverending story of Solid State Batteries. Unfortunately us country laggards in new energy we can only wait and watch, but the future looks all electric and renewable to me and we can't continue to lag behind and still be part of the developed world.