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.
The article says the fire was extinguished in 10 minutes. That doesn’t sound like an electric car fire.
“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.
“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.
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.
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.
What was the make and model of the EV? Tesla?
After all the gas cars are gone, electric cars will be deemed too dangerous and banned. The goal is to take away our personal transportation.
Amazing stuff.
Storage capacity is large and internal leakage of charge is very small.
BUT charge rate and discharge rate are critical. Heating is an issue with both charging and discharging. Excess heat destroys electrolytic capacitors and batteries, the dielectric breaks down from extreme heat. Lithium ion batteries can literally explode and it is hard to extinguish the fire.
ChiComs are deeply into this. And it is still a developing field.
Is the issue quality control on the batteries, or is the issue the design of the control circuits?
My take. We are all dying from complexity, nobody can “fix stuff” any more. The “experts” cannot trouble shoot cars, rely upon internal computer system. (hint, computers are really dumb but very fast.) Simple works!
Einstein: Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.
The good news is, at least they won’t have to go to work in the morning.
Just wait until the do it yourself mechanic starts repairing his and friends EVs