Get away, call 911, let it burn to the ground. No one wants a repaired fire vehicle. Ask me how I know. Never mind, I’ll tell you. I have owned two of them. First, the smell never leaves and 2nd, mysterious things go wrong.
I don’t know if this is true, but I heard when lithium batteries burn they expel hydrogen cyanide gas which I would imagine does wonders for the environment, basically turning the car into a Nazi Auschwitz gas chamber killing everything around it.
Every time an EV burns to the ground, does the sea level raise 1 μm?
At least is was a green fire from a green vehicle.
I have the bleak, depressing feeling that “let it burn” is becoming the buzz phrase for our time.
Comments BUMP!
How do you sleep with this in your garage?
Drink a lot of beer and piss on it. And that’s before the fire.
Use the type of foam the airport fire fighters use?
Sounds like Franklin TN Fire dept could use some continuing education hours. This has been known for some time.
We’re in the very best of hands.
The way we put out battery fires at our RC airplane club is dump a bucket of sand over it.
So for a full sized car, get a bucket loader, scoop a bucket full of dirt and burry the car.
And thanks to cableless door locks, if it lights up while you’re inside, your dead.
When a regular car lights up, it doesn’t necessarily kill the electric right away.
Shouldn’t EVs be prohibited from parking structures?
Gasoline does not spontaneously combust on contact with air.
#2 Diesel does not spontaneously combust on contact with air.
Ethanol does not spontaneously combust on contact with air.
Methane does not spontaneously combust on contact with air.
Propane does not spontaneously combust on contact with air.
Lithium does not spontaneously c ...
Oh ... wait ... it does ...
The EV crap might change after a few Elites and or Families get incinerated
[[They spent hours pouring 45,000 gallons of water on the car]]
Well by all means then, let’s make everything g electrical because we have far too much water
But, but, it kills GAIA when it burns!
A friend is the town fire chief.
He said same - their training is: if an EV is on fire, let it burn. If its in a garage, try to isolate the garage from the house.
I cannot imagine the cost of insurance on an EV.