Posted on 09/23/2022 2:17:40 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
That’s a lot of BTU’s.
What burned in a Lead-Acid battery fire?
You know what is going to be REALLY scary?
When someone does a statistical analysis of miles traveled versus spontaneous fires that completely destroy the bus and breaks it down by ICE vs. Electric.
That will be pretty scary indeed.
If someone says that THIS bus is 100 or 1,000 times more likely to catch on fire and burn to the tires than THIS other bus, which bus will have people piling off of it and onto the other bus?
Did they send electric fire trucks to put it out?
Yep. That’s where I was going.
If you’re talking about spontaneous combustion not caused by a kinetic accident, I think the EV vehicle will be much more likely.
Absolutely. Now, even if we talk straight up fatalities of all causes, you would think it would be completely lopsided against ICE buses. But given the likely disparity in miles traveled between them...it might not be as lopsided as one would think.
Not just the numbers, but the shorter range of the vehicles as well would make it perhaps not so lopsided.
MCC rooms are not usually attended but the system data captured remotely supported that conclusion.
The replacement setup now has a cage barrier instead of 100 linear feet of Lexan panels attached to the battery support frames.
There was some focus on overhead cable trays dead shorting and melting insulation down onto the Lexan to catch fire, but either or took place.
Secure a large, continuous and sustainable water supply — one or more fire hydrants or multiple water tenders
Use a large volume of water such as master stream, 2½-inch or multiple 1¾-inch fire lines to suppress and cool the fire and the battery
Gas cars are perfectly safe. Only one died:
Well we always go back the “horse/buggy” days.
It would be a lot more poop on the roads then
maybe not.
“You know what is going to be REALLY scary?”
I have posted many bus fires where many died.
How many have died in EV busses?
I read where Canada has, or will have, short hop electric prop airplanes!
A few years ago, certification of the big new Boeing fly-by-wire airliner was delayed by an onboard battery fire...or perhaps it was an overheating event prior to combusting. I forget the model number...
“Well we always go back the “horse/buggy” days.”
huh?
Saving the environment, one flamin bus at a time!
Thanks. I thought Lexan panels were fire retardant and self-extinguishing. Maybe some other thermoplastic?
Not to worry, that’ll buff out. </sarc>
“A few years ago, certification of the big new Boeing fly-by-wire airliner was delayed by an onboard battery fire.”
You might be surprised to learn that airliners have banks of these batteries aa a backup power supply.
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