We keep a small hammer under the seat for such emergencies.
We keep a small hammer under the seat for such emergencies.
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In an earlier posting about this a few weeks ago, there was discussion about the best way to break out in an emergency.... hammers don’t work near as well as one of those spring loaded devices. As a community service, I should go and find those links....
After you watch the first link, you’ll throw the hammer away....
A few takeaways...
1. Since the engine on an ICE car is the heavy spot, the front end will sink first. I’m not sure where the heavy spot is on an EV but that would be important to know.
2. Very important.... You must have a good quality window breaking device and that means one that is spring loaded that will pop out and destroy the glass. You can not swing a hammer underwater and in fact, at the first link it shows a hammer that actually broke and the guy using it wasn’t even in the water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqHfONs80AA This one did not work at all! Unbelievable that they still sell it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqBW1OSepbw This one worked well and the guy doing the demo did it with the car essentially full of water.
Bottom line... it is very important to have one of these in the car but it has to be a good quality one. And I suspect that by ‘good quality’, this means finding out for sure that it will break the glass for the car that you have. I have no doubt that some glass is much harder to break than others.