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What makes you think a battery fire is likely at all? High quality EVs are already extremely unlikely to catch fire. Much less likely than ICE cars of similar
by audunw 3y ago
What makes you think a battery fire is likely at all?
High quality EVs are already extremely unlikely to catch fire. Much less likely than ICE cars of similar model and age. And those cars are exposed to relatively rough conditions (accidents, debris on the road, etc) , and the battery packs aren’t closely monitored.
For a plane, the QA of the battery pack would likely be better to begin with. They’d have much stricter procedures for
monitoring the battery packs for possible abnormalities. And they’re unlikely to be exposed to a physical accident.
By the time they hit the skies (2030+) our experience with batteries will also be better. It’s obviously possible to ensure a battery never spontaneously ignite. Most battery packs, by far, never do. We’ll probably have a better understanding of the triggers of freak spontaneous fires.
Even in the ridiculously unlikely event of a battery fire I’m pretty sure it can be handled. People make out EV battery fires to be impossible to handle but the fire departments in places with high EV concentration has it pretty much figured out now and consider EVs to be less problematic than ICE. (Norway, Netherlands)
- Ekaros 3y agoI'm just considering couple hundred of these operating daily. Then if single one has to abort take off and evacuate at end of runway. That might close off relatively big airports runway for good bit. Likely causing significant secondary economic damage. Also ensuring that everything works perfectly and never fails is not very simple thing.
- midasuni 3y agoWhen Ba38 crashed at Heathrow it was blocking the runway end for 3 days
- inferiorhuman 3y agoWhat makes you think a battery fire is likely at all? I'm half kidding, but Boeing's experience with the 787. Their solution was more or less to just seal the battery off a bit better.