When EVs Burn: A look at how Connecticut fire departments are dealing with electric car fires

WTNH TV News ^ | November 10, 2022 | by: Darren Kramer

[Pollard]

[OldWarBaby]

The dirt cover idea doesn’t really apply to a battery fire. It’s not using oxygen Think like an electric arc welder. The heat and fire is from the electric short and it just keeps arcing. There does need to be an emergency way to draw off the stored voltage like, to a really big light bulb. Even the giant water bath isn’t really putting out the fire-—just keeping it confined until the battery “runs down.”
I’ve seen people put a dry cell battery in their pocket with maybe loose change or keys. The battery shorts out and heats up the pocket. The fix is to either pull out the battery or shuck the pants-—quickly. Same problem only way bigger with the car.

[Carriage Hill]

I’ll give it 5-7yrs until they’re considered a (dangerous) “fad” — like they were in 1895, replaced by steam and extinguished by ICE vehicles — and they’ll slowly disappear. I will laugh at all the mfgrs who’ve spent TRILLIONS making and promoting them, as millions of unsold POS EVs sit in the fields, next to the rusting, decaying factories that made them.

[GingisK]

Lithium DOES react violently with water. I suspect something like the foam they use for aircraft fires may be more appropriate.

[GingisK]

That was well stated, and concise.

[MinorityRepublican]

You put a tarp over it. Then you push the EV to the side of the highway. Let it burn itself out gradually. Low tech solution. It’ll take hours for it to burn itself out.

[Entrepreneur]

I’ll give it 5-7yrs until they’re considered a (dangerous) “fad” — like they were in 1895, replaced by steam and extinguished by ICE vehicles — and they’ll slowly disappear. I will laugh at all the mfgrs who’ve spent TRILLIONS making and promoting them, as millions of unsold POS EVs sit in the fields, next to the rusting, decaying factories that made them.

I hope you're right because that would mean a degree of sanity has returned. In truth, I'm pretty skeptical as long as the World Economic Forum is running the world's leaders and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

[Carriage Hill]

We’ll see.
I think WEC, WEF, Bilderburgs etc etc etc will be ‘disappeared’ in 5yrs, due to the damage they’ve caused. An anonymous Star Chamber will see to it.
I’d volunteer for it.

[Carriage Hill]

They’re feeling it already:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4108911/posts