Electric vehicles catch fire at Rivian’s Normal plant (Illinois)

WAND ^ | 8-25-24 | WAND

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Normal Fire Department (NPD) crews battled a blaze at the Rivian plant parking lot Saturday night.

NFD spokesperson Matt Swaney said fire crews were called to Rivian’s Normal plant just before 9:45 p.m. for a reported vehicle fire. He said there is an unspecified number of vehicles damaged by the incident.

Witnesses outside the plant said they reportedly saw the fire as early as 9:50 p.m.

The EV assembly plant was not affected by the fire, Swaney said.

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Fire is out, but still under investigation

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[monkeyshine]

Just when I thought I’d make a profit on my Rivian stock.
C’mon man! Go sell some more electric delivery vans or something!

[Larry Lucido]

Should have called out the abnormal fire department.

[heavy metal]

shocking...

[rx]

It’s just like Pritzker’s Illinois to have a heavy metal fan blowing on the fire.

(No insult intended, HM.)

[frank ballenger]

Notice the trendy windmill in the back. So PC.

https://www.25newsnow.com/video/2024/08/25/normal-rivian-plant-ev-fire/

Those who forgot marshmallows kicked themselves.

[Gene Eric]

lol

[Libloather]

Someone forgot to tighten the lug nuts.

[DannyTN]

You should see what happened at their abnormal plant.

[maddog55]

They’re ugly ass trucks.

[Secret Agent Man]

The truck body styles are fairly typical/conventional, its just their headlights that are unusual-looking.

[struggle]

Yeah, and SC is going to have a VE plant cranking out international harvester-esque Scouts in a couple of years that no one will buy

[Charles Martel]

The track width is odd. The delivery trucks look like huge versions of single-slice bread toasters.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The companies manufacturing these POS should be required to have an on site fire department trained to battle these kind of fires.

For example, airports have their own FD. EV makers should have their own FD. Why should taxpayers be stuck paying for these boondoggles?

[catnipman]

so, they’re simply pre-catching-them-on-fire before delivery to customers ...

[ncdrumr]

Notice the trendy windmill in the back. So PC.

Yep, those windmills are all over this part of the state. Ugly as sin.

[Democrat = party of treason]

Hell, they just start on fire out in the parking lot...LET’S SELL THEM TO PEOPLE TO PUT IN THEIR GARAGES!

[going hot]

IF I ever purchase an electric vehicle, I would install an automatic catapult, temperature triggered, and aimed out the door, for parking the car on top of, each night. Kinda like an ejection seat, but for the whole car.

[VanShuyten]

Just saw a Tesla truck today. I saw a Rivian several months ago. The Tesla was more impressive, but I bet their batteries burn about the same.