max current to max smoke in a heartbeat...After that Volt caught on fire weeks after an accident, there is no way in hell I would sleep over one in an attached garage.
yes (IMHO)
This is great: We’ve recreated the Pinto in an all electric model!
my firefighter relative told me about this several years ago. He said no way would he own one or ride in one.
When I was seventeen I saw a Volvo ignite and an infant in the back go up with it. Everyone did everything humanly possible to save the child, but that car went up very quickly after being rear-ended.
After using gasoline for the last 80 plus years across the U.S., it’s rather strange to all of a sudden start acting like electric cars are a real threat.
It would seem some policy of disconnecting and staging the batter pack would be a good idea. In time that’s probably what they’ll wind up doing.
Every accident I’ve seen involving a Prius (I’ve seen my share, I live in Boulder), they clear the area and call the hazmat team.
Really screws up traffic, worst than the accident.
What risk do these vehicles pose to First responders, and tow operators.
One of the first thing done by fire units on the scene of an accident is to disconnect the battery. This is a big battery, what dangers does it pose to Firefighters and tow operators who will have to disconnect it?
Have the Manufacturers done anything to instruct responding personnel?
Li-Ion laptop battery explosion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjAtBiTSsKY
If this can happen to a laptop think of how large an explosion can occur with a car!
Li-Ion laptop battery explosion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjAtBiTSsKY
If this can happen to a laptop think of how large an explosion can occur with a car!
Ping
I call that a hint...
I would encourage all Progressives & Democrats to purchase Government Motors Volts. I have been informed by many of them that they and their kind are invincible to those things that scare us common people. This could be related to the turkey fryer story ....
max current to max smoke in a heartbeat...Ping.
bttt
The idiot-media LOVES the word "after". It allows them to imply causation without ever having to provide any evidence.
Hybrids are the biggest of all the “Green” hype. The batteries are manufactured in China because the process is so poisonously dirty it is illegal to produce them in the States. Out the gate Hybrids are so far in the dirty hole that they cannot make up for it in their serviceable lifetime. My 2012 Ford Fiesta kicks Prius ass at a measly 38.1 mpg combined. Oh yeah, one final musing:
BE AMERICAN, BUY AMERICAN! TO HELL WITH FOREIGN IMPORTS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d3OayJbxn4
Guess what, everyone? For all your driving life, you have been sitting on a tank of explosives.