Posted on 09/23/2022 5:41:31 PM PDT by moovova
It’s no secret that some electric cars have been susceptible to their lithium batteries catching fire.
What’s increasingly becoming known to fire departments is how difficult those blazes are to put out. A Stamford, Connecticut, fire involving a Tesla took three times the normal effort to extinguish, according to the Stamford Fire Department.
And this fire was perhaps an easy one — the car’s batteries fell out of the vehicle onto the ground...
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Yep.
Lithium reacts with water. You’re supposed to use foam not water to extinguish a lithium battery fire.
Like being inside the head of a burning match.
That’s a feature, not a defect.
EV totalitarians are liars. They don’t want 300 million EVs, they want infrastructure for a few million EVs. Serfs can walk, die, or use trains, and not crowd roads that get in the way of their hot rod ICEs and supercar EVs.
Makes sense. Foam was used to put out magnesium aircraft wheel fires.
Perhaps it’s time for laws to be passed that require EVs to be equipped with fire detectors and automatic fire extinguishers to put out the fires, and water extinguishers won’t do.
Lithium-ion battery fires are not the same as lithium metal fires.
You need to get in touch with NFPA and have them modify their recommendations.
I would think it falling out made it worse. More access to atmospheric oxygen.
That’s a feature, not a defect.
EV totalitarians are liars. They don’t want 300 million EVs, they want infrastructure for a few million EVs. Serfs can walk, die, or use trains, and not crowd roads that get in the way of their hot rod ICEs and supercar EVs.
you are correct sir!
they promise the jetsons
you get the flintstones
Flood the exterior and the interior of the car with halon gas.
Someone needs to tell them that water won’t extinguish a litium fire.
This happened in the Soviet state of CT...
Dildo central...
No. Foam actually insulates and increases the temperature.
Do you think that the owner will take the insurance money and buy another Tesla?
They are not trying to extinguish the fire by drowning it. They are trying to reduce the temperature.
What happens when FD’s start sending the bill for the hazmat team and the required extra services to EV owner insurance companies? Neither my taxes or my insurance premiums should be paying for this.
So now we need specialized trucks and extra crews for foam fire suppressants and EV fires.
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