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Ford F-150 Lightning fire footage highlights a growing EV risk
CNBC ^ | 4/20/23 | Michael Wayland

Posted on 04/21/2023 3:37:04 PM PDT by CFW

DEARBORN, Mich. — New video footage of a fire involving a Ford F-150 Lightning this year highlights a growing concern around electric vehicles: volatile fires from the batteries that power them.

The previously unreleased footage, which CNBC obtained through Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act from the Dearborn Police Department, shows smoke billowing from three tightly packed electric pickups in a Ford Motor holding lot in Dearborn, Michigan.

Moments later, flames shoot several feet above the vehicles, which were unoccupied. It wasn’t clear based on public documents and police video how long the fires burned. Experts say EV fires can take hours, rather than minutes, to extinguish.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: automotive; batteries; cheapskate; donatefreerepublic; electricvehicles; ev; fire; firehazard; fires; ford
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The video of the truck fire included in the linked article is something to behold. These fires are almost impossible to put out.
1 posted on 04/21/2023 3:37:04 PM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

It’s not a “growing risk.” It’s an “inherent risk.”


2 posted on 04/21/2023 3:38:40 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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For the sake of the children and the environment, someone in Congress should write a bill banning lithium batteries weighing more than a few ounces. Maybe MTG could do that. She love to go after the left.


3 posted on 04/21/2023 3:40:07 PM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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That’s the new marshmallow roasting feature they added to entice younger buyers


4 posted on 04/21/2023 3:42:01 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: CFW

What could possibly go wrong?


5 posted on 04/21/2023 3:46:14 PM PDT by nagant
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To: CFW

How are the Nissans? I hear a lot of scary stuff about domestic producers. But is Nissan building a good product an making money at it?


6 posted on 04/21/2023 3:48:47 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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They should make self-destruction an option instead of a requirement. In case your car is taken over by Klingons, or something.
7 posted on 04/21/2023 3:49:31 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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It’s not an F 150 if it is electric.


8 posted on 04/21/2023 3:54:43 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: CFW

Batteries do not like hot.

As EVs become more common in the South and South West how is that gonna work out?


9 posted on 04/21/2023 3:56:17 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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You will get that oversized electric golf cart fanboy all agitated and posting pics of gas powered cars burning.


10 posted on 04/21/2023 3:57:26 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: NWFree

As a commenter on the Dearborn, MI story said, one fire spews so much toxic fumes into the air that it ruins the advantage of giving up on driving a gas powered truck for a year or so.


11 posted on 04/21/2023 4:02:40 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: CFW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUEA9hEIRiA

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-area-firefighters-electric-vehicle-fire


12 posted on 04/21/2023 4:04:13 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

I think that these battery fires are flammable metal fires with each flammable metal normally requiring it’s own extinguishing agent but there are no labels on the cars listing the materials involved.


13 posted on 04/21/2023 4:08:04 PM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: Rurudyne

Lithium Ion batteries are already going out of style. Tesla has already started the phase out to safe Lithium Iron Phosphate compositions.

So these battery fires are unlikely to be a problem for newer EVs.


14 posted on 04/21/2023 4:08:19 PM PDT by ltc8k6 ( .)
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To: CFW

The people pushing this crap should be driving around in these EVs bomb-fires


15 posted on 04/21/2023 4:10:43 PM PDT by butlerweave
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“recalled 18 of the vehicles, which Ford has likened to the Model T in terms of importance to the company.”

The Model T was made to be affordable.


16 posted on 04/21/2023 4:15:54 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: Colt1851Navy
 
 
For your consideration -
 
California fire crews use SIX THOUSAND gallons of water to extinguish burning Tesla Model S
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4127038/posts
 
 

17 posted on 04/21/2023 4:16:23 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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The opinion on what burned and sank a ship loaded w Porsche 2 years ago was an EV fire.


18 posted on 04/21/2023 4:16:39 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: CFW
Obviously misinformation. EVs have been deemed "safe and effective" by the government.

/sarc

19 posted on 04/21/2023 4:17:37 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Not my fault, yer Honor. I went to the Alec Baldwin School of Firearms Handling. )
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To: Bonemaker
Guess you'd better tell Ford that!

Ford F140 Lightning (Elctric)

20 posted on 04/21/2023 4:19:03 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama (Self Defense is a Basic Human Right!)
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