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yantra's avatar

plus, on impact the EV li-ion batteries can catch on fire which is extremely difficult to extinguish, and is a highly polluting event.

KT-SunWillShineAgain's avatar

Hi Dr. Yoho,

You left off the scariest downside: the EV cars lithium batteries can and do explode and erupt into flames.

They act like unexploded bombs.

There is something like thermal runaway, see this article.

https://www.pmkm.com/what-to-do-if-it-a-lithium-battery-explodes/

Also many young people have literally burned to death trapped inside EV cars after an accident. See the horrific cybertruck crash in Piedmont, CA before Thanksgiving 2024where 3 young college students got trapped and burned from the hideous 1,000 degree plus temperatures plus the toxic fumes while trapped, unable to open the doors or release the seat belts.

4 young teenagers just died after a VW Tiguan SUV, am guessing it was an eTiguan version in west Marin county on April 18th 2025 and bystanders unable to extract the 15 and 16 year old girls because of the intense flames and they were trapped in their seats.

Also lithium batteries take thousands of gallons of water to extinguish and can reignite.

They explode when they become unstable, or improperly charged etc.

Google EV uses aka lorries lithium battery fires in shuffled and Birmingham UK destroy new EV lorry buses.

Did you know that after an accident in which the electricity stops working, it is very difficult to locate and release the manual release to open the door, that the windows are bullet proof and hard to break? That the seat belts lock up after an accident?

KT-SunWillShineAgain's avatar

When passerbys stopped to help extract the 6 girls trapped, here's what they found: one conscious passenger of the April 18th VW Tiguan SUV crash pounding on the window and screaming to get out of the SUV as high temp fires, presumably from the lithium batteries, engulfed the car, making extraction impossible.

So another three unconscious 15 year old girls were burned to death. What's different re Piedmont Cybertruck crash, is there are NO photos of the Tiguan SUV, and at least one passenger Krysta of the Piedmont Cybertruck crash had attempted to escape but was trapped by her seat belt, her door wouldn't open, and then the raging fires made escape impossible.

https://www.marincountyvisitor.com/tragic-marin-county-crash-claims-lives-of-local-students/

"First responders rushed to the scene to find the vehicle engulfed in flames, with a horrifying situation unfolding before them.

Heroic Rescue Attempts Amid Chaos

When emergency personnel arrived from nearby Fairfax and Woodacre fire stations, they discovered Marley Barclay as the only conscious passenger. Witnesses reported seeing her desperately pounding on the window and screaming for help as the vehicle burned.

Despite the quick response from fire departments across Marin County, including units from San Rafael and Novato, the four other students could not be saved. The tragedy has left first responders from throughout the Ross Valley deeply affected."

Val's avatar

Thanks for this recording... It is a topic I don't know much about, but what I have heard of late, this talk helped to give me more to consider. I don't agree with the cost of the EV in the first place, and then hearing how much it takes to replace the battery, the cost of repairing accident damage, the trouble with charging accessibility, and, living here in Canada, the trouble of their operating in colder weather.... along with the elements needed in the batteries and how that impacts lives in other countries. This talk gave even more detail and considerations.

RadioFan's avatar

Namaste George: I understand that the EV motors are primarily DC series motors and they have really not changed. What's new is the regenerative braking and vehicle monitoring electronics, someone calls an EV "Laptop on wheels." Monitoring and surveillance features make them new or different.

Another thought: The shortwave band has been removed from the cars for decades. One may wonder as to why.

Cousin Clem's avatar

Fantastic article! I also really like the one on aluminum in the body leading to cognitive decline. Gasoline engines have become extremely efficient and clean burning and very reliable. I always get a bit sad at the posts on FB and other places pushing EVs as the way to "save the planet" when it's so obvious they don't. I can see a place for small EVs in city environments where you only need to drive to work or stores within a small radius but the manufacturers are trying to duplicate their model of building oversized behemoths in EV form. The amount of electrical storage needed to move these huge trucks and SUVs and feed all the entertainment and management systems is ridiculous. You are absolutely correct that this is about controlling freedom of movement and has nothing to do with saving anything.

Robert Yoho, MD's avatar

I remind you that this post was a compilation and derivative of others' work. Best

Amy Harlib's avatar

Anyone with 2 brain cells would know that 'NET ZERO' is an utterly insane off the charts idiocy, an absolute mathematical, physical, statistical and practical impossibility that can never be achieved or exist in reality!

Electricity has to come from somewhere, and the only reliable sources are coal, oil and gas (nukes don't cut it, the radioactive waste is too poisonous).

The 'CLIMATE CHAOS' fraud is the excuse and propaganda misdirection justifying attacks on farming and food, concealing a profoundly inimical globalist genocidal enslavement scheme.

Do you want to live in the squalor and drudgery and misery of the pre-industrial age? HELL NO!

HANDS OFF MY GAS STOVE! I LOVE MY GAS STOVE! Ever try to cook on an electric stove - absolute nightmare!

Can't say this often enough! CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN EVEN WORSE FRAUD THAN THE PLANSCAMDEMIC! SO-CALLED GREEN TECH IS A GIGANTIC SCAM! MINING AND MANUFACTURING 'GREEN' PRODUCTS NEEDS COAL, GAS AND OIL AND MINING RARE MINERALS IS MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY TOXIC AND DESTRUCTIVE THAN LEGACY PRODUCTS. SCREW YOUR DAMNED GREEN GRIFT AGENDA! https://climateviewer.com

HELL NO TO STARGATE! HELL NO TO SEEPSEEK! HELL NO TO AI!

All life on earth is being assaulted by THE TECHNOCRATIC OMNIWAR! RESIST! DO NOT CONSENT TO ALL THINGS DIGITAL, 'SMART', AI, 5G, NO CASH - ALL OF IT! dhughes.substack.com Technocrat ruling class psychos get a sadistic thrill from their powers over life and death and hurting all who stand in their way and they need the resources worldwide to build their digital total slavery control grids (herd survivors into 15 minute city digital prisons)!

AI is designed to be anti-human/anti-life programmed by technocrat control freak psychos - garbage in = garbage out. Everyone got along just fine without all these absurd and downright satanic electronic gadgets that did not exist until recently. NOBODY NEEDS THIS AI CRAP!

It's always since the dawn of history, been about using knowledge for power and control by the psycho portion of the human population that learned how to manipulate 'normies' to obey them in their power-mad power trips. Gates is one of the worst of the worst of these crazies!

Please check out this substack! ponerology.substack.com

In these modern times, this evil has become TECHNOCRACY, the vilest threat to the existence of all life on earth since forever!

EW! GROSS! HELL NO! https://www.technocracy.news

NOT MY BRAIN/MIND! NOT MY BODY! NO WAY, NO HOW, NOT PLAYING YOUR AI QUANTUM STUPID-ASS VIDEO GAMES! I AM LIVING IN THE REAL WORLD CREATING ART AND PERFORMANCES!

The more I learn about this stuff, the more sickened, nauseated and horrified I get, and I wonder what kind of inhuman psychopath loonies make this crap and want to use it!?

THIS IS PURE SATANIC EVIL! IT IS MEANT TO DESTROY BILLIONS OF YEARS OF CREATION IN THE ATTEMPT OF TOTAL SLAVERY CONTROL BY POWER-MAD PSYCHOS!

I DO NOT COMPLY! NEVER HAVE, NEVER WILL! May more and more wake up and resist and cultivate their health.

There is a fate worse than death - I would rather die than be a robotized slave of technocratic overlords! This is my hill to die on!

I have a landline and a wired laptop and a wired monitor screen, all the tech anyone should ever want or need. I never had and refuse to ever have one of those infernal mobile devices that are designed to enslave you.

My loathing of AI and all things NANO and digital knows no bounds!

SCREW THE FEAR FAKERY! NO TRUSTING THE WEF RULING CLASS EVER!

Reiterating for the sake of newbies and to support this post.

I have no fear of 'germs' or 'viruses'. One of the best places to go for reality: https://virustruth.net

I try to live without fear! Fear is the mind-killer!

PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS BY POWERFUL, WEALTHY CRIMINALS WITH EVIL INTENT CAN CAUSE ALL KINDS OF HAVOC! QUESTION EVERYTHING!

And these, the criminals behind the NAC and all the other schemes will use hypochondria hysteria and 'climate' hysteria to propagandize the gullible 'sheeple' into complying with TOTAL ENSLAVEMENT which is what this is really about!

A vast majority of so-called leaders and Public 'Serpents' around the world have been bribed, blackmailed/coerced into serving the interests of their technocratic New World Ordure parasite masters and not We the People.

GREED is behind every evil assailing us in the world!

The demonic despots of Davos at it again! They are behind everything bad! At it for decades and cronies like The Rothschilds and the Black Nobility and The Khazarian Mafia have been plotting planetary domination for centuries! ALL BECAUSE OF AVARICE!

We the People must try harder to live by The Golden Rule, doing so would solve most problems!

THEY can't get rid of the 'useless eaters' fast enough! Mistakes were not made, it was always malice aforethought.

AUTISM TSUNAMI/SADS/TURBO CANCER/BIZARRE TERMINAL ILLNESSES: More tragic victims of the ruling parasite genocidal enslavement agenda, sacrificed on the altar of psychopathic greed and hatred of humanity.

Migrant/Entrant Invasion/Infrastructure Attacks - all part of the destructive plot to achieve total slavery!

Apoplectic livid rage hardly describes the intensity of emotions I have had and am having over what these malignant globalists are perpetrating!

There is no noxious crime that the evildoers desiring to lord it over us won't commit to maintain their stranglehold on power. A groundswell critical mass resistance to their murderous enslavement plans is needed urgently!

Creative performing arts, fine arts and literary arts are the best part of being human and the thing the globalist predator technocrat megalomaniac total slavery control freaks most want to destroy.

Too many 'sheeple' are brainwashed to blindly obey authority figures on the media or in daily life in corrupt system ruled by control freak psychopaths who use propaganda lies to enslave their subjects and they are dumbed down to be obedient by 'education' institutions. Fortunately I was raised to question everything. This transcends party lines. We need a system that punishes psychopaths and rewards compassion and sharing, we need a system that actually follows The Constitution in reality.

Kudos to ROBERT YOHO, MD's heroic efforts and success in the struggle. We the People must always be aware of the existential threats lurking behind this fight!

How I stick my thumb in the eyes of the grotesque billionaire bastards pushing their enslavement agenda and how I embrace being fully human.

Fighting the globalist predator technocrat psychopath megalomaniac TOTAL SLAVERY AGENDA one performance at a time!

Amazing Amy: Eccentric Yoga Entertainer!

As an entertainer, I have been devastated and practically destroyed by the closure of all performance venues and then when they reopened, because MY BODY, MY CHOICE - being made a total untermenschen pariah outcast in NAZI NIGHTMARE LAWLESS 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' JAB CROW APARTHEID/DISCRIMINATION/SEGREGATION HELL NYC WHERE THE MAD/DRUNK WITH POWER TYRANT POLS DOUBLE DOWN ON THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES. I am trapped here with zero financial resources to leave or do anything else about this 'wish I were dead' endless misery life has become. The tragic irony is that my SPREAD THE YOGA LOVE performances are all about health, miraculously overcoming age (70) and injury to achieve feats of flexibility few can attain at any age. So BIG PHARMA who wants to addict every person on the planet to their toxic products hate people like me who prove that we do not need them if we eat healthy organic food and exercise daily!

https://www.reverbnation.com/artist/amazingamycontortionistuniqueyogadancer

I try and live and embody the creative performing artistic world and life I so fervently want existence to be about.

They can stick their f*cking damned NANO, Digital IDs, AI, jabs and chips up their asses where the sun don't shine!

All manner of lies and propaganda spew forth from the upper echelons in governments worldwide who are completely intertwined with the global criminal ruling class that wants to commit the worst atrocities imaginable and suffer no consequences. And their corruption slithers down the chain of command creating petty tyrants everywhere.

We the People are facing HORRIFYING TECHNOCRATIC PSYCHOPATHY TO DESTROY HUMANITY AND ALL NATURAL LIFE!

It was NEVER about health! The Powers That Should Not Be were ALWAYS about they want you DEAD or a SLAVE! This is a painful truth to accept but we the people must wake up and fight back!

We must never lose sight of the larger picture of the vile malignance we are fighting against.

There is an insidious global ruling class plot to enslave all life on earth behind all the madness and suffering inflicted on We the People.

How to fight back against this TOTAL SLAVERY!

RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! DITCH THE DAMNED 'SMART' PHONES AND THE DAMNED QR CODES AND GO BACK TO LANDLINES OR FLIP PHONES AND USE CASH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE! INSIST ON CASH! CBDC IS TOTAL SLAVERY!

Other than getting rid of nuclear weapons which I support 100% the rest of the anti-nuclear peace movement and CLIMATE CRISIS propaganda is parroting UN utter GARBAGE, a complete surrender to the ENSLAVEMENT AGENDA by the diabolical despots of Davos - ruling class criminals who lust for total power and control and all of whom should be tried and jailed for life and their malign organizations dismantled: the UN, the WEF, the IMF, the WHO, the BIS, NATO, Blackrock, Vanguard, The Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, The Bilderbergers, the CFR et al.

Amy Harlib's avatar

There is an evil predator globalist technocratic elite agenda of eugenics/depopulation/genocide using bioweapon poison jabs, war, geoengineering, EMF radiation, starvation and economic collapse - THE GREAT RESET/AGENDA 2030/4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION to get rid of billions of 'useless eaters' and to use nano tech to turn the survivors into ROBOTIZED COMPLIANT SLAVES! WAKE UP AND RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! These are psychopath megalomaniacs who want to play god by turning all life into digitized metaverse mechanistic synthetic biology to be manipulated by their AI algorithms. A more demonic sickening idea is nearly impossible to imagine!

APPALLED AND HORRIFIED AT INSANE TYRANNICAL PROTOCOLS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HEALTH AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH TOTALITARIAN CONTROL! REVERSE THIS NOW!

MAKE THE WORLD AND AMERICA 2019 (comparatively speaking), AND FREE AGAIN!

NO, I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE MORONIC SCARIANT SHMARIANT MONKEYSHINES! WAKE UP ALREADY!

TOTALLY CONDEMN BIDEN AND ALL OTHER POLS WHO HAVE NO POWER TO LAWLESSLY ACT LIKE AN EMPEROR OR DICTATOR AND DECREE JAB CROW 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' FASCIST SEGREGATION/DISCRIMINATION/APARTHEID VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE NUREMBERG CODES AND EVERY CIVIL RIGHT IMAGINABLE.

NO GREEN NEW DEALS OR BUILD BACK BETTER FROM THE CRIMINAL TECHNOCRAT TYRANTS KLAUS SCHWAB AND HIS CRONIES FROM THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.

STOP THE TERRIBLE TYRANNY OF THE TECHNOCRATS GLOBAL AGENDA OF TOTAL SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL USING THE VIRUS AS EXCUSE AND PROPAGANDA TOOL!

NO MUZZLING STIFLING MASK MANDATES! NO FORCED VACCINES! END TORTUROUS DEVASTATING LOCK DOWNS NOW! I WANT MY LIFE BACK.

Links to reinforce my comment.

https://wrenchinthegears.com

https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com

https://pandemicfacts.info

https://wearehumanwearefree.org/7-days-campaign/

https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/covid-19-roadmap-12-step-plan-to-create-a-totalitarian-new-world-order-were-on-number-8-headed-towards-number-9/

https://questioningcovid.com

https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1581-james-corbett-breaks-down-the-great-reset/

http://www.stopcp.com/GlobalResetPSYOP/GlobalResetPSYOPMindMap.html

https://everydayconcerned.net/2020/09/04/breaking-major-investigative-report-by-association-of-french-reserve-army-officers-finds-covid-19-pandemic-to-have-a-hidden-agenda-for-global-totalitarianism-nanotech-chipping-of-all-5g-irradia/

Pam Popper: https://makeamericansfreeagain.com

Del Bigtree: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/highwire

Naomi Wolf: https://dailyclout.io

www.nojabforme.info

https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-must-awaken-from-corona-coma-reject-great-reset-robotic-technocracy-assert-common-humanity/5745213

Dingo Roberts's avatar

This is great. It's really the perfect amount of detail, providing just enough information to inform or inspire someone to learn more. George is great, as always, while Pollyanna Paul gives a rimshot:

"HERE is a short video he sent me that describes some of the latest sexy EV technology."

Give me a break LOL.

"Paul notes that the internal combustion car (ICE) companies are now run by MBAs who have recently squandered the advantages their engineers gave them. Some pundits predict bankruptcy of the entire industry".

"Some pundits". Oh, do tell who!

Robert Yoho, MD's avatar

Paul usually hits mid court baskets.

RadioFan's avatar

Namaste Dr. Yoho: You may have found the EMF risk overrated but how do you compare the large currents inside the passenger cabin (regenerative braking and vehicle monitoring electronics, for example) with Dr. Robert Becker ("Body Electric" book) finding that our bodies operate, maybe at mA, to heal and for other nerve functions?!

George's avatar

The electric motors in the EVs are similar to the ones used in a subway, trolley or electric train so this is not new stuff if you ride any of those.

The wifi and cell phone EMFs are new, but they will exist in any modern car with built-in wifi and if you've been using cell phones in your car for the past 20 years, you've been subjecting yourself to high fields because the car blocks the signal forcing your phone to increase power, and then bounces it around inside the metal structure.

Robert Yoho, MD's avatar

that book is on my desk and I am writing a PEMF post soon

Victor's avatar

As an EHS (electrohypersensitivity, as described by Belpomme et al) patient, I'm fortunate to be able to read your mail in an EMF shielded computer, monitor, using a copper shielded mouse (the ones with a little ball), and I can tell you that I feel terrible in electric cars, I get terrible headaches. Even though the pathophysiology of EHS remains a bit obscure, the etiology seems to be a rheumatic/autoimmune chronic migraine, probably exacerbated by years of sedentarism and a recent french paper on EHS (https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12124092) found out that ~80% --if I remember correctly-- of the patients have a history of "metal fillings for oral cavities", which reminds of mercury, so possibly related to vaccines, autism, hyper-flexibility too. So the super bad cases of chronic pain in EHS patients might not translate directly as health risks for non-EHS populations.

Well, my point is that I was surprised not to find in your article that riding EV's might even be bad for your health, not even considering EHS patients.... Especially if not shielded correctly... shielding electromagnetism is pretty hard, shielding electric fields and radiofrequency is a bit more affordable, but even then... Why make an electric car to save/improve on 'insert your car industry lie here' if you have to shield it with a lot of conductive material then? It makes no sense, no matter the angle, IMHO. Klinghardt Institute has great information on electromagnetic radiation. A particularly scary paper (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.113374) by Dr. Belpomme and Dr. Irigaray has some very good arguments on why EHS and other similar symptoms could be attributed to man made EMF.

As mentioned by Dr. Yoho, I, too have measured the electric field of EVs and it was terrible while charging but not while riding. I don't remember if I could measure ELF electromagnetism but subjectively I can tell you that I feel terrible in EVs but also in gas vehicles that have a lot of electrical parts or smart features. If a simple mouse gives me repetitive strain injuries without electric field shielding, imagine all those components. You have to understand that EHS is very different than normal people's sensitivity to EF/RF/ELF.

Thank you very much for your work <3

George's avatar

It would be near impossible to shield from the LF EMFs coming from the electric motors and power conduits in an EV because of the low frequency. Same problem in Subways, and Trolleys and Electric trains.

I suspect the bigger exposure though is cell phones and wifi inside the car. This will be there in any new car, not just EVs.

Robert Yoho, MD's avatar

It gets technical but is credible even for a layman like us.

My overall impression about home exposures is that they could be avoided, but I did not develop firm conclusions about automotive. For the sensitive people though, avoidance is survival.

Alina's avatar

Dr. Yoho, I have great respect for you, and I voiced it many times. Thank you for being there for us. However your friend (or handler IMO), George, who probably is the only person in the world denying chemtrails has lots of things to say of which he may not necessarily know enough. Does he have Tesla? I do. No amount of silly arguments will take away the joy of driving that thing. He should try driving it before he opens his mouth. The vehicle is beyond human imagination.

BTW: Trump will be soon putting legislation soon against chemtrails that according to George don’t exist. Omg… He should take a look at wayback machine and consult what Harvard University had to say about chemtrails before it went down the memory hole.

George's avatar

Hi Alina, I don't own a Tesla or any EV. I own one of the scandal diesel VW TDI Jetta wagons (5 speed manual transmission) and I love driving it.

I'm not sure why you think I was against Teslas? I believe I stated every single Tesla owner I know loves it. I also know people love driving them.

WRT to Chemtrails, Trump is going to outlaw SAI (a very specific type of geoengineering involving spraying), but you'll see that won't change the persistent contrails you see in the sky, because they're not SAI. They're mostly from civilian jet engine exhaust (pollution) which I explained is well studied and they are exceptional cloud makers.

Trump also isn't outlawing cloud seeding which is a lower altitude spraying which occurs all over the mountain ranges in the US, paid for by power companies to generate more snow and rain.

Robert Yoho, MD's avatar

I'll forward it to G. He's a friend and a shill for no one. His point of view is nuanced, and "chemtrails" means different things to different people. As far as a vast conspiracy with poison tanks in the back of most commercial airplanes, it's absurd.

Alina's avatar

Dear doctor Yoho, There are few useful apps (flight aware, live flight tracker, flight radar 24) that you can download for free and trace every detail of each plain in the sky. It will tell you the numbers, destination etc… Why don’t you just do yourself a favour by tracing a few on different days and observe what some of them leave behind…. No, not all. Yes, most. Just look up and research government sources.

George's avatar

I have done this several times for people claiming they weren't near airports and they could see criss-cross trails. Every time I spend the time to look them up, they were on international flight paths (and yes crossing paths).

Not once have I seen a single case that someone looked up that didn't turn out to be regular flight paths by civilian aircraft OR cloud seeding done for paying customers (not secret and these don't generate high altitude cirrus clouds).

Tirion's avatar

I'm surprised that there is no mention of the effects on human health of the EMF radiation from the batteries and motors. Surely those effects are both real and harmful?

George's avatar

My bet is that the EMFs from Wifi and cell phones are probably the worst of this, and that's going to be in every single new car with electronics and wifi enabled.

In an EV you're subjected to completely different Low frequency fields from the electric motors and battery management systems, but this is highly dependent on how fast you're accelerating, braking, whether you are charging, and how close you are to the motors.

Trains and subways have the same problem and have been around forever.

Tirion's avatar

Yes, I guess the alleged harms depend on the amount of time spent in the EMF and the intensity of the field in question - many factors in play.

George's avatar

Yes, and the effects of different fields. What's unique to the EV is the LF EMFs, which are similar in frequency to the ones you see from powerline infrastructure. I'm sure they're not helpful to your body, but it's hard to quantify the actual health affects. The time you spend in the vehicle probably matters a lot too.

Riding a subway would subject you to similar fields.

Tirion's avatar

Yes, hard to quantify and assess, but does not feel like coincidence.

"Chart of Radio Frequency (RF) & Electromagnetic Frequency (EMF) Advances and Correlating Epidemics & Pandemics"

https://www.monkeyilluminati.com/2020/03/29/rf_emf_shamdemic/

Truth Seeker's avatar

These are extraoridinary times. Content providers have strayed and that is just fine.

Basic high school biology: CO2 is the molecule of life. The more of it the healthier and better for the green plants that sustain life. C (carbon) is best sequested in the soil.

Greenies have forgotton (if they ever knew) the most fundamental chemistry.

Very important to disclose that current Teslas require no cobalt as mining it was an environmental and human slavery issue something social justice warriors did not know or care about.

The sooner both ICE and Li Ion is replaced by something that is so much better the discussion

becomes irrelevant, the better. It is on the horizon.

A Midwestern Doctor's avatar

#1 They have too many EMFs.

#2 They are more likely to break and more costly to repair over the long term.

#3 They make it too easy to spy on the drive.

George's avatar

#1

Have you measured this? All modern cars that are wifi equipped will have huge amounts of HF EMFs because you're sitting inside a faraday cage. Any car with multiple cell phone users inside the same. (I used to use an external antenna to avoid this problem, but new phones don't support that anymore)

The LF EMFs from the electric motors and charging apparatus will depend on how close you sit to the motors. This is the exact same problem if you sit on a subway or trolley or electric train. I haven't read too much about it yet. I ride the subway every day and I'll bet those motors are putting off higher fields in certain locations than an EV.

#2 - I am curious what data you are using to back this up? Teslas had ~30% higher cost at low end models than traditional ICE cars, but on the high end were comparable to other luxury vehicles (2023 data). Non Tesla's (less specialized cars) have a repair rate comparable to ICE vehicles.

#3 - This has nothing to do with EVs. This capability exists in every single modern car.

yantra's avatar

i agree. a car is one of the worst places to carry a cellphone that is turned on, due to the signals bouncing around and then ramping up to try to get out thru the metal (or metallized windows). Actively talking on the phone exacerbates the problem. Plus, if the vehicle is moving, the phone has to keep transfering from one celltower to another, which can further ramp up it's radiation. An elevator is probably the worst place - for the same reason, but magnified.

i know most people do it, but a car is really NOT a good place to use a cellphone.

Teslas are even worse than other cars, because you cannot turn off all the wireless signals even when they are off and parked. i know, because two of my relatives drive them. i avoid even getting near the darn things.

Sorry to say, but (underground) subways are most likely near the bad end of the spectrum, especially if crowded with lots of cellphones, "wearables", etc.

Elizabeth D.'s avatar

#4 if one crashes into you, you’re dead. Too heavy!

Jewell's avatar

Great article - the weight of these EVs have been responsible for parking garages collapsing and may contribute to more frequent maintenance of roads. And then there is the fire hazard and the costs of response and remedy.

If a person wants an EV that is fine with me - but I greatly object to having to subsidize their choice. For decades there have been tax credits (currently up to $7,500 available for eligible new electric vehicles and up to $4,000 for eligible used electric vehicles and $1,000 for home chargers) available to purchasers. The ones that are more likely to benefit from these are the upper middle class.

These tax credits are subsidized by the rest of us who do not own EVs. Also various mandated EV laws and the governments switching over to EVs is another benefit to the EV makers and their ilk.

Many benefit from the Green Agenda scam -such as :NPOs and NGOs that often are funded by grants from the tax payers; folks who are directly involved in the manufacturing/production and marketing of these products; those who have invested in the stock of the these "green companies"; various government employees; and of course the elected officials who receive donations from the companies producing and marketing these products so that they will support decreased regulations on the "Green Things" and increased regulation on their competitors and provide mandates, subsidies and incentives for the "Green" Agenda.

One has to wonder how long the "Green Agenda" would last if all of the mandates, tax credits and incentives, industrial development incentives, federal and state funding for EVs, windmills, solar, carbon credit schemes, and funding of NPOs to advance the agenda were to disappear.

Robert Yoho, MD's avatar

it would vanish immediately

maybe we can hope for that now

FloxedAndFurious's avatar

Great to take a break (rhyme's on the house) from healthcare, especially to keep getting the word out on The Jolly Green Giant Fraud.

Roger's avatar

EVs are not healthy. Sitting in such a high EMF field for long periods of time is not healthy.

George's avatar

If you keep your cell phone in your car, you're already getting bombarded by EMFs. The low frequency fields vary depending on how fast you're accelerating or braking. Also if you sit in it while charging and how close you are to the motors in the vehicles.

I suspect you're going to have more negative affects from the Wifi/Cell signals which are going to be in every car that is modern.

That same electric motor infrastructure has been used in trains and subways for a century.

yantra's avatar

a car is one of the worst places to carry a cellphone that is turned on, due to the signals bouncing around and then ramping up to try to get out thru the metal (or metallized windows). an elevator is probably the worst place - for the same reason, but magnified.