>Yay anecdotes! I'm not claiming superior knowledge, just sharing my experience. Experience is valuable too. If you have facts the show something alternative,

>Yay anecdotes! I'm not claiming superior knowledge, just sharing my experience. Experience is valuable too. If you have facts the show something alternative, bring them to the conversation. I have involvement with an automotive business that buys cars that have been written off. In short, I see a lot of cars and how they failed. >The real question is whether or not battery fires are harder to put out than gasoline fires. >The current recommended practice for a lithium ion battery fire is to let the fire burn itself out... Good point. Actually, I think better pre-crash measures need to be taken. If a battery is about to explode, I imagine it be possible to control where that explosion happens, i.e. directed away from the cockpit.