Posted on 10/06/2022 3:34:09 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
A top Florida state official warned Thursday that firefighters have battled a number of fires caused by electric vehicle (EV) batteries waterlogged from Hurricane Ian.
EV batteries that have been waterlogged in the wake of the hurricane are at risk of corrosion, which could lead to unexpected fires, according to Jimmy Patronis, the state's top financial officer and fire marshal.
"There’s a ton of EVs disabled from Ian. As those batteries corrode, fires start," Patronis tweeted Thursday. "That’s a new challenge that our firefighters haven’t faced before. At least on this kind of scale."
"It takes special training and understanding of EVs to ensure these fires are put out quickly and safely," he continued in a follow-up tweet. "Thanks to [North Collier Fire Rescue] for their hard work."
Patronis published a video of firefighters in Naples, Florida, battling a fire started from a Tesla EV's battery. A bystander is overheard in the video saying that the crew had used hundreds of gallons of water attempting to put the fire out.
Last week, Hurricane Ian pummeled cities along Florida's west coast including Naples and Fort Myers, making landfall as a Category 4 storm. The hurricane caused more than 100 deaths and over a million residents to lose power.
It is unclear how many EVs were impacted or destroyed by the storm.
Meanwhile, consumers are increasingly turning to EVs as the Biden administration continues to push a green transition involving zero-emission cars.
Between April and June, EVs accounted for 5.6% of new car purchases in the U.S., up slightly from the first three months of 2022, according to Kelley Blue Book.
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So your implication is that ICE vehicle
fires are more numerous than EV vehicle
fires? Not fair to make that comparison
when EV’s make up for less than 5% of
the total number of vehicles on the road.
Get back to me when EV’s comprise 50%
and then a fair comparison can be made.
At this point, those here are totally
against a forced transition from ICE to
EV.
Today’s tech cannot possibly compete
with the freedoms ICE vehicles offer
except in limitited controlled circumstance.
I might add...
soak an ICE in seawater...no boom.
soak an EV in seawater....BOOM.
Smoke on the Water
-— Deep Purple -—
I’m always skeptical of claims by EV fan boys.
Well, at least they can’t be smuggled out of Florida for resale to the hicks in Arkansas.
Salt water ruins things
A submerged ICE car is done.
But it won’t burst into flame.
That’s right!
The comparisons are calculated in per 100,000 cars sold.
The 174,000 vehicle fires per year is reasoned to mention as a whole,
because it reveals that ICE cars are a fire hazard as well. It is not
mentioned as a direct comparison to numbers of EV fires for obvious
reasons.
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