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I don't believe EV cars are anymore likely to catch fire than gasoline cars. Either way, if a car catches fire in your garage you are in for a bad time. It's d
by rybosworld 6y ago
I don't believe EV cars are anymore likely to catch fire than gasoline cars. Either way, if a car catches fire in your garage you are in for a bad time.
It's definitely good to spread the awareness that many fire extinguishers are not suitable to put out lithium fires, though.
- dreamcompiler 6y ago> fire extinguishers are not suitable to put out lithium fires Only Class D fire extinguishers can put out lithium metal fires. But lithium-ion batteries do not contain lithium metal. Lithium metal batteries do so, but no EV uses lithium metal batteries because they're too dangerous. Class B fire extinguishers work just fine on lithium-ion battery fires. The difficulty with lithium-ion EV fires is that they tend to re-light, but water is still the tool of choice for putting them out.
- rybosworld 6y agoToday I learned!