They should make self-destruction an option instead of a requirement. In case your car is taken over by Klingons, or something.
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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It’s not a “growing risk.” It’s an “inherent risk.”
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.
That’s the new marshmallow roasting feature they added to entice younger buyers
What could possibly go wrong?
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?
It’s not an F 150 if it is electric.
Batteries do not like hot.
As EVs become more common in the South and South West how is that gonna work out?
You will get that oversized electric golf cart fanboy all agitated and posting pics of gas powered cars burning.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUEA9hEIRiA
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-area-firefighters-electric-vehicle-fire
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.
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.
The people pushing this crap should be driving around in these EVs bomb-fires
“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.
The opinion on what burned and sank a ship loaded w Porsche 2 years ago was an EV fire.
/sarc
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