Posted on 09/24/2023 11:16:07 PM PDT by dennisw
A family home was lit on fire after their 'electric car' reportedly exploded while sitting in their driveway.
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service rushed to a family home in Bromborough, Wirral at around 10pm on Saturday night after receiving reports that a car was on fire. The blaze was put out in just ten minutes.
The Liverpool Echo reported that the façade of the two-storey family home was blackened by the fire and that the garage was also previously on fire as well.
One man told the Echo that after speaking to the owners of the car this morning they believed the cause of the fire was a 'malfunctioning electric car battery', although this has not been officially confirmed by the fire service.
He said: 'I was in bed and heard this popping noise. It sounded like fireworks going off.
'I went outside with my mum and there were bright lights with a car up in flames over the road.
'The owner was in the house when it happened but got out. She told me this morning that the car was only a month old with a thousand miles on the clock and the car battery malfunctioned.'
One woman said: 'I heard tyres popping and people came out to see what was going on. Someone started screaming and people rushed out to help.
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NOTE-—— This EV was parked in their driveway. But still set their garage on fire. Evil automobile out of a Steven King book.
I was shocked to read this. It's a rare sentence nowadays.
They forgot to order the non-inferno model.
More likely people rushed out to record videos that they could sell to the tabloid media like the Daily Fail.
The article says the fire was extinguished in 10 minutes. That doesn’t sound like an electric car fire.
Electric car fires are notorious for reigniting hours or even days after being “put out”, and this often happens multiple times.
“the car was only a month old with a thousand miles on the clock”
I wonder what they paid for their car that gave them only one month of service.
Thinking of the multitude of decades that I have been around, I have only seen one car fire. It was on a highway. Never seen a parked car at home on fire.
I wonder if records are kept of all the EV’s that were registered in Florida’s hurricane paths. Also wondering what the frequency of car fires occur with those that were exposed to hurricane conditions.
Exactly my thought as well.
“Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service...”
Your tax dollars at work. Just imagine that here with a 100 million of these defective, polluting inferior vehicles in the garage. Our pathetic gummit would demand a new federal agency with 25,000 employees to supervise every fire station and its actions 24/7. But then again we’ll be collapsing by the end of the decade anyway so no matter, strike that comment.
Pretty soon insurance company’s will require that electric cars be parked in protective revetments ...
...must like how aircraft were parked on runways at Tan Son Nhut Air Base after that attack in Long Bin.
From Upstate NY...
Gives you an idea of what to look forward to if you want to charge at home.
Car connection to garage via an umbilical charging cable
“The article says the fire was extinguished in 10 minutes. That doesn’t sound like an electric car fire.”
Article said the EV exploded. Perhaps the battery blew apart into more manageable pieces. That were easier to douse the smaller fires and put out.
Death traps! As they make more and more electric vehicles powered with lithium batteries it will get worse. It is not safe to park a new EV in your driveway.
That’s why FDs need big dunk tanks — to submerge the car for days. It’s the wooden cross through the heart of the EV.
Article says “the blaze” was extinguished in 10 minutes. There were three “blazes”- the house, the garage, the car.
Which blaze was extinguished in 10 minutes?
Safe and effective.
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