Posted on 08/03/2022 7:39:15 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods
In what seems like a daily occurrence, another electric car has gone up in flames. I have previously covered self-immolating electric buses, deadly battery fires after an EV car crash that engulfed two helpless teens, and while not ultimately deadly, countless other episodes where electric vehicles simply failed completely.
All of this, again, doesn’t even cover the fact that electric vehicles get their charge from an outlet that relies almost entirely on fossil fuels. I also covered that – in a piece where the CEO of GM touted her new line of cars…until she got asked where the source of electricity came from. Only then did she admit that the Michigan town utilized more than 95% of its power from coal.
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You can put water on them for days and the fire can restart. Fire depts use foam (if they have it), which is expensive.
Putting out the fire in an EV is much more difficult than putting out a fire in a gas powered vehicle. EV fires can reignite multiple times. Sometimes burning EVs have been literally dumped in water filled pits to calm them down.
https://www.ktvu.com/news/sacramento-fire-crews-use-4500-gallons-of-water-to-extinguish-a-tesla-car
“Driver dies after being trapped inside [ICE} car that caught on fire”
The question is if your tesla spontaneously combusts in your garage who do you call....your home owners insurance or your auto???
All new building codes require 5/8” drywall(normal drywall is 1/2”), also known as Type X drywall between garages and living space.
This goes along with a steel fire code door between the attached garage and living space. These doors are rated at 90 minutes. They idea being a person sleeping in a bedroom would have time to escape the building in the event of a fire in the garage.
FYI, I do not leave Lithium Battery’s for power tools plugged in over night in my garage or basement/shop for this reason.
“If the VIN plate is intact, then its rebuildable...”
It works that way with old airplanes, too, I believe.
But I question this: “While EVs do not experience fires at a higher rate than gas-powered cars”
Most gasoline fires in cars are the result of massive impact (car was already totaled before the fire) or old age. Ask a firefighter which kind of fire they’d rather deal with, gasoline or EV battery.
LOL - True AND funny AND sticks it to Climate Alarmists....
Do ICE vehicles burst into flames while the owner is in bed asleep?
Yeah, I'll attach my TV remote to a broomstick and fly round the world!
I believe the term generally used is a "data plate restoration."
Those old WWII aircraft that are brought up from the bottom of Lake Michigan, and are completely rebuilt down to the last rivet, but the original data plate is reused is an example.
The Norwegians do realize that vehicles can be powered on natural gas, eliminating the open-pit-mine, child-labor-having middleman, don’t they?
In my old state of Maryland, governments were putting buses into service that ran on natgas. The tanks were located on the tops of the buses.
> I read that at one time at least one building code
> required thicker gypsum board for garages.
That code is still active in my state. 5/8” minimum thickness for garage walls.
Back in the 1700’s the Plantation houses NEVER had a kitchen in them. The kitchen was always separate because fires were common.
If you ever visit George Washington’s home at Mount Vernon, VA you will see that the kitchen was in a building separate from the main house for this reason.
As well as metal fire resistant doors.
“Jaguar, on the other hand, is not being helpful at all, stating they need to complete their own investigation, but because of the risk of igniting the fire once again, they are unable to find a place where they can lift the car up, therefore their ‘investigation’ is on hold, and they are not taking any responsibility for what happened.”
It's too dangerous to examine their own vehicle? Wow.
But they’re good for the environment.
> All it takes is just one of those cells to go “Pffttt…bzzzt” and the whole battery stack goes up
I’ve seen some coolant designs that submerge high-output EV batteries in non-flammable liquid. Also there are more modern battery designs that aren’t so likely to runaway.
However these only reduce the risk. The root of the problem is the energy contained, and without it, there’s no point to the battery (or the fuel tank for an ICE). Risk reduction and mitigation for ICE has had a lot more development time. The engineering questions to resolve are the limits of pursuing risk reduction for the EV, e.g. is even possible to reach or exceed the risk envelope of ICE?
i imagine the numbers are available
i am guessing the LEFT does not want to know
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