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Posted on 02/24/2022 4:42:17 PM PST by Jacquerie
Unlike the Pinto, you don’t have to get hit — or hit anything — for an electric car to burn. The things can, and have, caught fire when parked. Actually, “caught” is not the right word to describe what happens.
Spontaneous combustion is better.
That’s because of the nature and design of electric car batteries, which are not like the small 12-volt battery that starts the engine of a non-electric car. That battery is generally lead-acid, and fires are rare because a fire would require two things: a spark — as caused by jumper cables contacting the battery’s terminals — and leaking hydrogen gas. If both of those predicates aren’t present, a 12-volt starter battery fire is highly improbable.
You can break the case of a 12-volt starter battery, and it will leak — but not burn.
Electric car batteries, on the other hand, are very high-voltage batteries — 400 volts is typical; 800 volts is becoming common — and they are fire-prone by design.
A process called thermal runaway can trigger a fire without a spark — or an impact. This most commonly happens when the electric car is being charged, and it is why electric car fast-charging is always a potential fire problem.
With every electric car.
This is why “fast” recharging is slow compared to refueling, which takes less than five minutes without any risk of fire from the pumping of fuel. But the “pumping” of volts is always a fire risk; it causes the battery to get hot; that can lead to a very hot and hard-to-extinguish fire.
Sometimes it takes several tries to extinguish the fire, which can restart itself. Roasted electric vehicles have re-roasted themselves after the hulk was dragged onto a flatbed where special fire-containment systems were installed to deal with this problem.
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I bought a beard trimmer to trim our little dog and the batteries get very hot in about a minute ,LOL
The cause of the fire is not known, Mendes Cabecas said, though suspicion has fallen on lithium batteries in electric vehicles the Felicity Ace was taking from Germany to the United States.
“We know from what the captain told us that there were a lot of electric vehicles on board, as well as nonelectric vehicles,” he said.
https://www.ttnews.com/articles/fire-subsides-cargo-ship-carrying-volkswagen-evs
Shocking, just shocking.... 😂😂
There were Ford vehicles that caught fire while parked.
These fires lead to recalls.
One recall in the mid-90s was for the ignition switch.
Another recall in the late 2000s was for the cruise control deactivation switch.
I’ve owned Ford vehicles subject to both recalls.
Government has always hated cars because they give people freedom. It looks like they are finally going to succeed in getting rid of them.
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At the very least, a good heat/smoke alarm in the garage with remote alerting inside the house.
“Unlike the Pinto, you don’t have to get hit — or hit anything — for an electric car to burn. “
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Yes it is. It’s called the Chevy BOLT.
Chevrolet Bolt EV Reportedly Catches Fire While Parked In .
https://insideevs.com/news/450145/video-chevrolet-bolt-ev-fire-parked/
Another in a very long list of examples of how liberals are all extremely stupid and extremely evil.
The normal ABC dry chemical extinguisher is not going to be very helpful on an EV fire. Water in the amounts that you can spray at home is just going to excite the fire.
If you are trapped in a wrecked EV and the battery goes critical mass, you are going to die. The fire department can’t save you. We will try but it won’t change the end result.
But, but, but, 0-60 mph times are teh fastar!!
/oversized electric golf kart fanbois
My thoughts exactly. Will there be an investigation?
What is coming in the near future is a ban on ANY all-electric vehicles being allowed on auto ferries across the globe. Any electric car fire could quickly cause an uncontrollable fire throughout the vessel and loss of life could be enormous. Cars and people are packed like sardines on many ferries.
Normal fire extinguishing procedures will NOT work on these all-electric cars
If somebody had vision, they could’ve designed removable batteries to be traded out at a recharge station along the way. But no! The whole friggin frame is a battery bed in the new generation of Ronson lighters!
Gasoline-fueled cars burn up too.
Yes, EV fires are more dramatic and better clickbait. ICE fires are common enough they’re boring.
That Santa Barbara Island dive board that burned to the water line killing many sleeping passengers was destroyed by charging camera flash batteries while the cre & divers slept.
Given that the ship and cars are worth in the hundreds of millions, I’m sure that there will be an investigation, if only to determine who pays for what.
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