I did a tour of an 80 MW coal power plant during my electrical engineering coursework. You're not going to fit an 184 MW heat exchanger in the garage the car ge

I did a tour of an 80 MW coal power plant during my electrical engineering coursework. You're not going to fit an 184 MW heat exchanger in the garage the car gets parked in, much less the battery pack under the floor. Also, as the article suggests, carbon monoxide is bad, and obviously you need oxygen to breathe, but firefighters have equipment that can help with that. However, when you've directed all the energy in the battery into a couple hundred pounds of water, the resulting 100C steam will instantly give 3rd degree burns to anyone in the airspace within a 10m cube around the vehicle. Vehicles hold a shocking amount of energy to be able to transport thousands of pounds of steel for hundreds of miles. Because burning gasoline is a visceral experience, no one suggests that at arrival to an ICE car you should vaporize and exploding 20 gallons of fuel. Instead, you must prevent the fuel from burning.