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.
What about dirt or sand or some such? Can you starve an EV fire of oxygen that way? If you can, what about dump trucks on stand by with dirt and shovels?
I think this push for EVs is rotten. But it seems like manufacturers would need to be able to tell municipalities and owners what can be done when EVs catch fire.
Plus, they’re ugly cars too! Bring back those cars from the 50’s and 60’s!