Quote Originally Posted by grantzer View Post
I don't have to,I already know the truth,and have in fact refuted everything he has said. Electric cars do NOT weigh 50% more than petrol or diesel cars. The don't run on silent mode looking for innocents to kill. They don't go on fire more than petrol or diesel cars.

These are all lies peddled by Islay on this post.

Any ferry that is concerned about an extra bit of weight in a car is a ferry I won't go on. They sail with weight limits set to ensure they are well within tolerances, and they know what the tolerances are. If Islay can show any evidence of a ferry sinking because of electric cars,I would be happy to apologise,and change my view. That's mot going to happen though because Islay doesn't care about evidence,only what popped into his head 5 minutes ago.

He has made zero attempts to refute what I say,instead he just tells us about emails he sent,as if that is evidence of him being right.

He is not right,he is absolutely 100% wrong.

Now if that means he wins,I couldn't care less. He is still 100% wrong.
You would soon change your tune if your car was sitting underneath the mezzanine deck on one of the large Calmac ferries and the mezzanine deck collapsed on top of your car because the Calmac staff loading the mezzanine deck said that a poster on Dundee Mad called Grantzer says that this increased weight for electric cars is a lot of nonsense.
It is more than a passing coincidence that several large Calmac car ferries have been taken out of service since the beginning of 2022 to repair their existing fire fighting equipment.
I also previously posted that Calmac ferries are in dialogue with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) about the possibility of an electric vehicle combusting on board one of their ferries.
It must be a problem otherwise the management of Calmac and the MCA would have dismissed these concerns as scaremongering and ignored them.