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To: LIConFem

Hybrids can be downright deadly on Emergency crews trying to saw through body panels and door frames to free people trapped in wrecks. The state of the electrical system cannot be determined from the outside, and there is no external ‘master disconnect’ to safe the battery pack.


45 posted on 07/12/2007 12:40:49 PM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: theBuckwheat

The only place the battery power goes is from the pack directly to the engine inverter, right down the middle under the car. There’s no way to cut those cables getting through doors or windows, there’s a quick-disconnect in the trunk at the battery back, and the voltage while high (250 voltes) isn’t necessarily deadly with the equipment they are already wearing to do rescue (their gloves and masks and clothes which protect them from heat and chemicals).

There is some training provided to emergency crews, but I’ve not read of any injuries from the high-voltage battery pack.


55 posted on 07/12/2007 1:23:53 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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