No, that won't happen. Because unlike you, he intelligently speaks on the topic which his YouTube channel is all about. Which this incident has absolutely no relation to.
... What? lol
I can't park inside because of the fire risk, now I can't park outside because of falling power lines!Here's another one - the headline could be...
Electrified vehicles burst into flames!
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Multiple cars on fire after power lines fall in N.J. city
Multiple parked cars caught fire Wednesday morning on a city street in Hackensack, forcing firefighters to stand back until a utility company could cut power to downed lines in the area
The Hackensack Fire Department asked residents to avoid Prospect Avenue near Berry Street due to downed power lines and a blown transformer.
Flames and black smoke poured from the vehicles in the 300 block of Prospect Avenue as firefighters from several towns waited for PSE&G to cut power to the area.
https://www.nj.com/bergen/2026/07/multiple-cars-on-fire-after-power-lines-fall-in-nj-city.html
Maybe the thread title should be "Truck hit by a Lightning..." since a truck that gets "Hit by lightning" might not be much of a surprise when it bursts into flames.
Those were ICE vehicles on the street and included gasoline fires.I can't park inside because of the fire risk, now I can't park outside because of falling power lines!
I knew I should have stayed with ICE vehicles
🫨It was an ICE vehicle, not EV.
Rubber tires do not insulate or protect from a lightning strike. Common misconception, probably because they DO insulate from something like a downed distribution voltage power line. Think about the scale here. The lightning bolt has about 300 million volts at 30,000 amps, enough power to jump a gap thousands or tens of thousands of feet through the open air between the cloud and the ground. a half inch of rubber and a few inches of air gap are not a factor. The lighting bolt was aiming for that spot on the earth and the truck happened to be in the way. It was hitting there one way or another.
