Posted on 10/24/2022 7:48:43 PM PDT by montag813
by Becca London | RNN
An electric vehicle fire led to a temporary closure of a highway west of Vermillion, South Dakota, last week. The EV’s battery burst into fire, turning the car into an unrecognizable mess after the blaze was eventually put out.
KELOLAND News, and news media outlet based in Sioux Falls, SD, reported:
The Vermillion Fire EMS Department says it happened on Highway 50 near the Business Route exit just after 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Crews arriving on scene found a small car on fire with flames spreading into the ditch.
Because flames had reached the cars high-voltage battery, firefighters secured the area to wait for the battery to cool. Highway 50 eastbound to the Business route was closed for around an hour and a half. The cause is under investigation.
The Vermillion Fire EMS Department responded with four apparatus, two support vehicles, and 12 personnel.
RNN has reported on numerous electric vehicle fires over just the past few months, many having not been involved in collisions of any kind.
On September 16, in Stamford, CT, a Tesla caught fire while parked in a lot, and took an astonishing 25,000 gallons of water from multiple fire departments to get it under control (even though it was still hot and smoking thereafter)...
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Good riddance to another Datsun.
Good morning Mr. Phelps, your car will self destruct in five seconds.
Happy walking Jim…..
Lol......good one.
Imagine yourself in this situation: it is the middle of winter and a harsh cold front is upon the area with the ambient temperature at about -8 degrees. You are caught in a traffic jam out on the interstate with no exits within reach. Suddenly your EV catches fire.
You now have to chose: stay in the car where it is warm and soon to be very warm, or exit the vehicle and hope someone will allow you access to their auto. If you are a woman this choice is even more difficult as any benefactor could be a serial rapist or killer. Granted the odds are low on that issue but ...
And don’t think that terrorist are not seeing this and planning a little accident of there own.
I parked in an underground garage in DC a few weeks ago. Three levels down was a bank of chargers. I can’t imagine the difficulty of fighting a car fire down there. Do they even have a fire truck that can get there?
but but but Thomas Edison promised us that D.C. electricity was completely safe!
...and they drove with pride.
I parked in an underground garage in DC a few weeks ago. Three levels down was a bank of chargers. I can’t imagine the difficulty of fighting a car fire down there. Do they even have a fire truck that can get there?
Great question. They have water fire hoses. Useless in the event of an EV battery fire. Most garages I’ve been in are too low for a fire truck. Another mark against EVs.
It looks like the driver door is open so hopefully all inside escaped that death trap.
“...and they drove with pride.”
In a Yugo.
The EV equivalent of the 1980s (was a Rush Limbaugh tune) (Paul Shanklin)
In a Yugo.
The EV equivalent of the 1980s (was a Rush Limbaugh tune) (Paul Shanklin)
Rush would have been all over this crap. I miss him.
Imagine driving down the highway and your butt starts getting hot. Those people were lucky to get out alive.
Most parking garages have their own hoses and fire spigots scattered around to meet fire code. Gasoline catches fire too, you know.
Better question: can they get enough water to keep the battery pack from slagging the structure and every car around it. These battery fires don’t extinguish very well and all the water really does is keep the temperatures down until the available power to feed the short has been drained.
Two dead
What’s the point? That ICE vehicles burn up too? Doesn’t make EVs any more attractive.
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