Lithium is water reactive. Nothing they combine it with can likely stop its dissociation when ignited.
The other day my wife and I drove past it and I joked that it's not real. My wife asked why. I told her it wasn't an EV and EV's are supposedly the only ones that catch on fire. LOL
And I will add more expensive to fuel than gas is for automobiles in some locales.
In a word, yes.
When?..................
This elicits a few thoughts. Unless I missed the headlines why haven’t the wef globalists targeted lithium factories the same way they have targeted many other processing plants?
Government operatives forcing the transitioning to EV’s is like mandating mercury bulbs to replace the incandescent light bulbs. And wondering why there is a sudden increase of toxic levels of mercury in the environment.
Or like government mandating a change in gallons to flush to 1.8, which in reality requires 2-3 flushes thereby increasing water usage.
Ditto regarding EV and gasoline cars. No way are these wokesters going to admit anything bad about EVs if it damages their political agenda.
Same reason why when Walgreens puts out an ad to get your clot shot, there is not one second spent on listing possible side effects, yet every single other tv ad for a drug on the market takes up half of it listing the possible side effects such as strokes, heart attack, cancer, etc...
EVs are a Dead-end
Yeah. But they really help the communist Dung Beetles control the American PEOPLE.
Aside from the potential CAR-B-Q, I’ve already seen two EVs suddenly go into hazard light mode as they very slowly moved over to get off the road. I have no evidence, but I suspect they ran out of juice just as golf carts tend to do by the 17th hole. How many accidents will this cause in two years... five years... ten?
Our “earth-friendly” EPA began requiring ever-increasing MPG decades ago to “save the planet”.
When will they announce regulations limiting the amount of lithium allowed in each EV?
Brace yourself for megasize images of ICE vehicles ablaze by everyone's favorite EV proselytizer, TelsaGator.
“Untold secret”
BS.
It’s called willful ignorance, aka ‘confirmation bias’.
WOW! I am amazed this is in a mainstream publication like the Miami Herald.
When I was living in Waterview Cluster in Reston, VA an ICE car caught fire while driving in the townhouse complex.
There is a risk of any high-powered battery system catching on fire.
The financial risks of fire are normally handled by something called insurance.
In a large parking garages such as found in DC, there is a risk of fire spread between vehicles. EV chargers might get placed so as to spread the EVs out to reduce fire spread risk. Chargers in large garages might be lower powered, or not provided at all.
Batteries might also be placed in steel containers to reduce fire intensity.
An EV fire might be contained by say first hooking a cable to the EV, then dropping large upside down steel bins on the EV, then pulling the EV and the bin onto a thick plate, then pulling the EV, bin and thick plate onto a tow truck. Or the EV fire might just be allowed to burn.
In the early days of the horseless carriage, garages were kept separate from residences.
I’m pretty sure lithium mining will prove less destructive than coal mining has in PA and WV.
“In 2019 China is estimated to have emitted 27% of world GHG, followed by the United States with 11%, then India with 6.6%.”
“In 2020, 27% of the GHG emissions of the United States were from transportation, 25% from electricity, 24% from industry, 13% from commercial and residential buildings and 11% from agriculture.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_the_United_States
Together, US trucks, cars, planes and trains emit about 3% of global man-made CO2 emissions.
Simple answer is yes
The article was an ad for Nanotech....
4 gallons of gas has more energy then the electric batteries of a f-150 or any electric vehicle.
It takes 5 minutes to a full tank and no worries about massive battery fire at home or while driving.