[BenLurkin]

"orders"

[TornadoAlley3]

https://www.vcemergency.com/

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Can we PLEASE retire “shelter-in-place”? How about using plain English: “Stay inside your damn homes?” Or “Don’t go outside?”

“Direct extinguishment can exacerbate the fire” — then I guess it wasn’t really “extinguishment,” was it? Were they using gasoline to extinguish the fire?

[butlerweave]

Government’s fault because they’re ordering everyone to buy the Time Bombs

[Vaduz]

Thermal runway, a “challenging and hazardous condition,” is a process that occurs when a battery (uncontrollably) reaches high temperatures incredibly quickly.

Technology in action huh Moe.

[BobL]

EVs being cooked is the excuse that Los Angeles uses to disallow their citizens to return to their homes. What they won’t mention is that many, maybe most, of these homes have safes which probably survived the fire.

[cotton1706]

Wave of the future, they are!

[BradyLS]

“Safe and effective.”

[Adder]

shelter-in-place orders in a nearby residential area.

So they know what pile of ash is who?

[know.your.why]

Ah yes, The feared lithium battery RTA (Runaway Thermal Event). Aptly named because when it happens you darn well better run away. :). These car batteries have 1000+ individual cells. If just one of them is defective and gets hot, the BMS (Battery Management System) is supposed to sense it and shut the whole battery down. If it doesnt and that one cell gets to about 250°F, then it goes into a RTA and heats up super quick and ignites at about 600°F then instantly goes to 3600°F and all the other batteries go off like a domino effect. There's no stopping it. E-bikes and even cell phones are vulnerable to this. Its no-bueno.

[lee martell]

Whenever an EV bursts into an uncontrollable fire like this one, there are always people quick to remark about “how rare” such incidents are. Perhaps they are uncommon, but the fact that this kind of fire is so hard to contain and extinguish, remains a major concern and ever present hazard.

[Bernard]

The department said the safest approach to such a blaze is to let it burn in a controlled environment.

Does that mean that you should park your EV in a dumpster just in case?

[kawhill]

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

[JimRed]

Thermal runway? A hot landing strip?