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And ignited the impossible to extinguish electric car batteries in its vicinity
by pigeonhole123 5y ago
And ignited the impossible to extinguish electric car batteries in its vicinity
- happosai 5y agoExtinguishing EV fire is not hard, you just just need a lot of water. The problem is that it will re-ignite after a while. So you can't just leave it after that, you need to move the wreck to a safe location and have some firefighters wait until if reignites, drown it in water and repeat.. The alternative is to drop the car in a container of water, but has it's own drawbacks. It really depends on what kind of risks we willing to accept. Since people sleep well in homes with pipelines of explosive gas https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2021/07/20/plano-home-explosion-that-left-6-hospitalized-was-caused-by-an-isolated-gas-leak-fire-officials-say/ https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2021/07/20/plano-home-explos... I don't think EV fires are going to stop their adoption.