... provided you dry them out first, then fill them with explosives.
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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Lately I'm beginning to wonder whether I'm the one who has lost his mind.
Water won’t extinguish an e.v. battery fire.
Much less quickly.
It makes them worse, the heat just turns it into extra oxygen and hydrogen fuel to make it burn faster.
They have to burn themselves out of fuel.
That crap is like thermite.
You can submerge them but that doesn’t put them out it just keeps stuff around it from catching fire, and dilutes the lethal smoke with steam.
All fireman can do is wait around and watch.
Every e.v. that went through that storm is now a ticking firetimebomb waiting to go off I bet.
Once the corrosion does its thing,,, poof !
If im right, this will be the last media we hear about it.
Have visited their family’s restaurant in PC Beach many dozens of times over past 50 years. Captain Anderson’s. Our favorite restaurant in all the world.
A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House
Do NOT buy a USED car that was in Southwest Florida!!!
“Sea water does amazing things..”
indeed ... pretty much anything metal soaked by seawater is hosed ... can’t imagine how destructive such a soaking would be to EV batteries made by soldering thousands of small 1.5v cells together ...
God works in mysterious ways!
Wonder if this could be solved by car-boats in magazines like Popular Science and Popular Mechanics in the late 50s and early 60s. (Not the flying car ones). Amphicars.
Google as amphicar images.
... provided you dry them out first, then fill them with explosives.
Lots of new Republican voters one should hope!!!
But, but, but, teh 0-60 mph times are teh fastar!
/oversized golf kart fanbois
I'm actually writing a novel right now about a nice man being driven mad by an insane society. I haven't quite gotten there yet, but in the end, he's going to accept the insanity and feel content ... a bit like Winston Smith in 1984.
I would not only bee on the look out for EVs coming from there but regular ICE cars too. It was typical in the past to send these flood damaged cars all over the country to be sold to unsuspecting buyers.
“The horror…..the horror…..”
EVs were not a big number of those vehicles.
Looking back to the 1980s, there were upwards of 450,000 vehicle fires per year. LINK
No only putting out fires, but you need to know how to disable the electric systems to avoid lethal electrocutions.
You can lose all that you paid for it. Nice going democrats.
And how many of those automobiles caught fire by getting wet?
Which is why alkaline metals are stored under mineral oil. Even high humidity can start a fire.
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