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My opinion: EVs, self-driving or directed, need an ejection mechanism for their batteries. Petrol has the advantage that it may ignite, where batteries are almo
by zamalek 9y ago
My opinion: EVs, self-driving or directed, need an ejection mechanism for their batteries. Petrol has the advantage that it may ignite, where batteries are almost guaranteed to when damaged. Ideally, it would be an active system (launching the batteries no more than a meter away) - but that could fail under the conditions which caused the damage to the batteries. An alternative would be a passive system made of materials known to melt when exposed to a lithium fire - providing a few centimeters of separation from the cabin. Either way, the current situation is not ideal.
- freehunter 9y agoSo your system would throw a burning pile of lithium into the woods to start a forest fire, into oncoming traffic to cause another crash, into a pedestrian on the sidewalk, etc?
- zamalek 9y agoYou're right. It's a terrible idea. Pity it's too late to edit or delete that dumb comment.
- Diederich 9y agoI'm not going to dismiss your opinion out of hand, though I certainly don't agree with it. If I may: do you realize that, in this catastrophic wreck, that the fire only started, slowly, after the driver had been taken by EMS? One big difference between a fire with batteries and gas is this: if gas starts to burn, most likely all of it is going to burn, quickly and often explosively. None of these are the case with the batteries in Teslas. Only the damaged ones are likely to burn, slowly, and not explosively.