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Many models have a pyro fuse in the battery pack high voltage hook-up that blows when the airbags deploy. Also common is that if the 12V battery is disabled, th
by bdamm 4y ago
Many models have a pyro fuse in the battery pack high voltage hook-up that blows when the airbags deploy. Also common is that if the 12V battery is disabled, the high voltage pack is also disabled. And many models simply disconnect the high voltage pack when in park (or soon thereafter).
So while you're right that there's not a common standard, the common reality is that the packs aren't dangerous in a crash. Regulation could push this just a little further and mandate pyro fuses in pack hookups, which would reduce the probability of electrocution to first responders and occupants to basically zero, since nobody would try to cut through the floor of the vehicle in an extraction (where the pack cells are, and the most dangerous part when it comes to randomly cutting cross sections.)
- KennyBlanken 4y agoAll EVs and hybrids have contactors inside the battery pack and if it is not energized, there is no high voltage present anywhere in the vehicle outside the pack.