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Once all vehicles are electric, would such fires spread in a parking lot?
by graeme 5y ago
Once all vehicles are electric, would such fires spread in a parking lot?
- gonzo41 5y agoThe future looks green for insurers and the premiums.
- bilbo0s 5y agoI don't know the likelihood of EV's in the future using these Lithium batteries. You would think people would be working hard trying to find something more dense and more safe. It seems there'd be a lot of money in that, but what do I know? If it is all lithium, well, make sure you have good insurance.
- 8note 5y agoAren't these issues inherent to being a battery? All the reactants are stored in the same place, unlike a fuel, where you have to mix the reactants before there's energy to release
- erik_seaberg 5y agoA battery is just a tepid chemical reaction that we can easily reverse, which is why we accept the poor energy density. If we could find a dense fuel that didn’t throw off a lot of carbon dioxide or methane, synthesizing that would probably be better. If only storing hydrogen weren’t such a problem …
- topspin 5y agoYes. That's happened with fleet vehicles already. Five electric busses parked at a university in China had this happen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T71cVhxG_v4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T71cVhxG_v4
- graeme 5y agoYikes. Thanks for the clip. Hmm. About 250 million vehicles in the is. If you assume maybe 100 million parked closely in lots during peak load times. Wonder what the average daily odds of a battery fire are. This’ll probably be one of those things society will figure out, but I certainly never considered this aspect of electric cars.