Gasoline is pretty nasty too if not handled properly. The technology will improve and this kind of fire will become as rare as idiots burning themselves up with gasoline.
“Gasoline is pretty nasty too if not handled properly. The technology will improve and this kind of fire will become as rare as idiots burning themselves up with gasoline.”
And in the meantime, there’s always sandpaper and Solarcaine!
You can easily put out a gasoline fire. Not so with a lithium fire.
“The technology will improve and this kind of fire will become as rare”
and we should be grateful to those pioneers sacrificing themselves to save the planet...
;-)
As you pointed out, fire mishaps with gasoline are largely due to improper handling, storage, maintenance, or usage of the substance. These lithium-ion battery fires appear to occur spontaneously, with no sign of any impropriety associated with their us.
That is accompanied by the incredible difficulties involved with extinguishing them, the probabilities of increased danger of electrocution while doing so cause me to consider that EV’s are not yet ready for prime time until these, and all of the associated logistical and infrastructure headaches are worked out. This attempt to shoehorn us into this technology makes me smell a big fat Norwegian rat.
I think that turning over our energy grid and most of the means to power these vehicles to the tender mercies of the Chinese Communist Party utterly unthinkable and a danger to our national security.
A gasoline fire is relatively easy to put out. A lithium fire is not.
What a stupid comment
Gasoline won’t spontaneously combust.
Lithium Batteries handled properly can still combust.