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2. Health and environmental effects of battery electric cars

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   Under the provisionally agreed Euro 7 standard electric cars have a lower limit of brake particulates. [12][13] Electric cars may have some disadvantages, such as: Possible increased tire pollution compared to fossil-fueled cars. This is sometimes caused by the fact that most electric cars have a heavy battery, which means the car's tires are ...

3. Battery leakage - Wikipedia

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   Battery leakage is the escape of chemicals, such as electrolytes, within an electric battery due to generation of pathways to the outside environment caused by factory or design defects, excessive gas generation, or physical damage to the battery. The leakage of battery chemical often causes destructive corrosion to the associated equipment and ...

4. Plug-in electric vehicle fire incidents - Wikipedia

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   As of February 2014, four fires after an impact have been reported associated with the batteries of plug-in electric cars. The first crash related fire was reported in China in May 2012, after a high-speed car crashed into a BYD e6 taxi in Shenzhen. [4] Two incidents occurred with the Tesla Model S in October 2013, one when a Model S caught ...

5. A Step-By-Step Guide on How to Charge a Car Battery - AOL

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   A faulty alternator is often the cause of a dead battery. In short, your battery always needs a charger of sorts to maintain a charge. It's a job the alternator does if everything's working right.

6. Jump start (vehicle) - Wikipedia

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   A jump start, also called a boost, is a procedure of starting a motor vehicle (most commonly cars or trucks) that has a discharged battery. A temporary connection is made to the battery of another vehicle, or to some other external power source. The external supply of electricity recharges the disabled vehicle's battery and provides some of the ...

7. Scratched EV battery? Your insurer may have to junk the whole car

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   The UK currently has no EV battery recycling facilities, so Synetiq has to remove the batteries from written-off cars and store them in containers. Hill estimated at least 95% of the cells in the ...