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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
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.
I’m NOT setting my carport on fire with one of those things.
I would guess that a detached EV garage will be selling feature for new homes.
It's not the voltage that kills you, it's the amperage.
The Telsa idiots say the best way to put out one of their cars when it's burning is with “...copious amounts of water....”
And practical experience has shown that "copious" turns out to be on the order of tens of thousands of gallons, over a period of days.
Which means you aren't so much as putting out the fire as limiting you are keeping it contained while it burns itself out.
Plus they state the firemen should be wearing hazmat suits and self-contained breathing apparatus. In other words, they should dress like they were putting out Chernobyl.