"Sticks a potato in exhaust pipe" "Drives around car" "Dies" Alternatively, disconnect the steering column and drive off a cliff. There are a thousand easy

"Sticks a potato in exhaust pipe" "Drives around car" "Dies" Alternatively, disconnect the steering column and drive off a cliff. There are a thousand easy ways to kill yourself making uninformed modifications to any motor vehicle, by its nature. Its a ton of steel that goes up to a tenth the speed of sound. If anything, the reduced complexity of electric vehicles gives you fewer vectors for wrongdoing to screw yourself over. You can break any number of parts in a combustion engine to make it fail, whereas in an electric vehicle all you really have is steering column + drivetrain + battery pack.