Posted on 09/25/2023 9:10:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
An electric car exploded into a massive fire ball while sitting on the driveway of a family home, which also caught fire, according to reports.
Emergency fire services were called to a home in Bromborough, Wirral, UK, at around 10 pm after receiving reports that a car was on fire.
The blaze from the electric car was so big the family’s home also caught fire.
According to a report from The Liverpool Echo, the fire blackened the two-story family home.
A man told the outlet that after speaking to the owners of the electric car, they said they believed the blaze was caused by a “malfunctioning electric car battery.”
“I was in bed and heard this popping noise. It sounded like fireworks going off,” the man said.
“I went outside with my mum, and there were bright lights with a car up in flames over the road,” he continued.
“The owner was in the house when it happened but got out,” the man said.
“She told me this morning that the car was only a month old with a thousand miles on the clock and the car battery malfunctioned,” he noted.
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One woman said:
“I heard tyres popping and people came out to see what was going on. Someone started screaming, and people rushed out to help.”
“I saw it happen, and it looked like the fire was coming from where they charged the car. The whole thing was up in flames by the end,” the woman said.
“It was so scary, and my little girl was screaming because she thought something had happened to our house,” she recalled.
A spokesperson for Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service said:
“Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service (MFRS) attended an incident on Cooks Acre, Bromborough, on the night of Saturday, 23 September.
Crews were alerted at 9:51 pm and were on scene at 9:57 pm. Three fire engines attended. On arrival, crews found a two-storey detached house with the garage well alight. A car on the drive was also well alight.
Two firefighters wearing breathing apparatus entered the property under rapid deployment to fight the fire. The fire was extinguished by 10.10 pm.
MFRS carried out home fire safety checks on the properties on either side of the property and left the scene at 12.21 am.”
In July, Fire brigades in the UK said they are being forced to double the crews sent to blazes involving the technology.
While single fire engines are typically sent to car fires with petrol or diesel engines, fire chiefs are now sending two units for electric vehicles with lithium-ion batteries.
Energy stored in the batteries causes massive heat in a process known as ‘thermal runaway,’ which produces ‘rocket-like’ flames.
Essex Fire area manager Jim Palmer said: “The dangers posed by electric vehicle fires do not end with putting out the flames.”
“There have been many cases of electric vehicle fires reigniting sometimes even days after being extinguished.”
Not the first case either.
Save the cost of purchasing an outdoor grill.
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Energy resents being confined, and will break out of captivity every chance it gets (which is why TNT wants to go BOOM!). The miracle of fossil fuels is that it was created by nature capturing energy produced by nukular fusion in our Sun and transforming it -- at zero cost to the consumer -- into a form that is remarkably stable and transportable, considering its energy density.
....Once smoke and/or temperatures exceed a certain value, the halon gets released to extinguish the fire....
The greenies have banned halon extinguishers at least for you and me. It goes back to this “ozone hole” business.
It’s a carbecue.
And ding-a-ling Biden wants all of us to have an electric car????? Damn, he (Biden) is dumber than I gave him credit for. I have some relatives that lived in Delaware for a while and they made the statement on how STUPID BIDEN WAS/IS. I have to agree with them.
Electris vehicles should be charged inside concrete bunkers 300 yards from the nearest occupied residence.
It’s interesting they aren’t saying what kind of EV caused the fire. I’m guessing it’s not a Tesla or people would be gleefully shouting that from the rooftops.
burns hot and is toxic.
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I understand that water increases the fire/heat because it can short out the entire battery pack. If you have one of these cars don’t drive through standing water and if a flood is coming get the car out of the flood zone. Don’t park the car close to anyone’s property. If you see one parked, don’t park near it. There are likely other ‘Don’ts’ you should be aware of if you have one of these toys.
They said WATCH but it was only seconds with flames in the distance with no definition.
“The halon and CO2 systems I used to install dumped in maybe 30 seconds.”
Does that mean a larger halon system would work? Or not at all?
I’m sure TeslaGator will tell us this wonderful
Like the fake news
I was told on this forum that electric cars didn’t explode!
Like your post and your tag line.
You know here in OK...the Osage Tribe got an exemption..on how many Bald Eagles they could kill,,,on their windmill farms.
Once exploded, they are neither electric nor cars...............
I want to put two EVs in the garage of somebody I hate, immediately!
Don’t pee on it
Don’t lick it to see if the battery has a charge.
Might be a few others
Chinese EVs are doing brisk business in UK and Europe. Would be interesting to know what make the car was.
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Get used to it.
They’ll force people into them (mandates).
What do they care if they burn up houses?
The models they’ll be driving will be closer to 200k and quite different
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