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What amazes me is that they put out the fire. I thought that when these batteries catch fire, they can burn for days and it's impossible to stop it.

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• ZuLuuuuuu 5y ago
  That was also what I was thinking, and apparently it was freshly charged too. So I guess there are some EV fire types you can put out and some you can't?
  • Nextgrid 5y ago
    The danger of EV fires is that it’s a thermal runaway situation - one cell catches fire and heats up the (perfectly good) cell next to it until it catches fire and so on and so on. I guess if you have enough water to keep the nearby cells cool while the faulty one burns out you can stop the reaction early.
    • dathinab 5y ago
      > you have enough water to keep the nearby cells cool Or if all cells burn roughly at the same time ;=) Through from what I remember (I might be wrong) the ID.3 packed there battery cells into what you could describe as "grid of metal cells/walls" so that might have helped, I guess.
  • dathinab 5y ago
    Does anyone know if: > apparently it was freshly charged too makes a difference wrt. how long, hot and likely a battery burns (through not how likely full charging causes it to burn, that is a different statistic).