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Unless the accident renders you unconscious or structural damage causes the doors not to operate. Have you seen lithium battery fires on Youtube? Pretty impressive. Similar to the flame on a road flare only car sized.
some guy in Florida burned to death in his Tesla....it had those funky door handles....and police and fire couldn't get the door open
There should be time to exit the vehicle before the fire consumes it. It's not going to explode into a raging inferno like a gas tank would. The self sustaining chemical reaction would take time to spread to the other cells. Methinks this is just another anti-EV post from people unwilling to embrace new technology.
ETA - another thought I had about this... "There should be time to exit the blast zone before the nuclear reaction consumes the plutonium. The self sustaining chemical reaction would take time to spread to the other atoms."
There should be time to exit the vehicle before the fire consumes it. It's not going to explode into a raging inferno like a gas tank would. The self sustaining chemical reaction would take time to spread to the other cells. Methinks this is just another anti-EV post from people unwilling to embrace new technology.
I don't really care who wins the vehicle wars. Whoever makes the vehicle with the lowest total cost of ownership in an attractive package, I will buy it. However, in 50 years, 96% of drivers will not be using internal combustion, gasoline powered vehicles. It's just progress. Something will replace internal combustion engines. It's inevitable. I visualize the same arguments 100 years ago as horses were being retired from their role as primary transportation. Human beings resist progress and change as a species.
Right now, EV's range sucks, they are too expensive, and they really don't work well in a Minnesota climate where 0 degrees in the winter is common. They have a ways to go before I will adopt their usage. I wish them luck though!
Quoted blue for truth.
Partisans of both sides have their pet concerns and latch onto any story that confirms it. Confirmation bias at its finest.
Not buying a Tesla. Terrible company to do business with. Easy to end up with crazy bills because everything service related is proprietary unless you are Rich Rebuilds.
They'll have to come up with special procedures at the accident scene before these ev's are towed off or designate certain scrap yards qualified to disable or make safe damaged evs. Guess who is going to pay for that.
The batteries take up a significant part of the lower part of the car. I would think anything other then a small, parking lot fender bender would damage the batteries. Get past the crumple zone and you are into the batteries! One damaged cell ignites the rest.
Our daughter is a 911 dispatcher, as is our neighbor. Both for large metropolitan areas.
Both said that their fire departments are having a beach of a time extinguishing EV fires
The leftie media says not much of a danger, but I wouldn't have one in my garage if you gave it to me
They'll have to come up with special procedures at the accident scene before these ev's are towed off or designate certain scrap yards qualified to disable or make safe damaged evs. Guess who is going to pay for that.
last summer something like this happened in PA in early july...a new whizbang forklift of all things used for this massive nut processing plant near lancaster went up while charging. it really was a nut processing plant so excess water was not in the building plans and the local VFD had no capacity so half a million feet went up in roasted cashew flavored smoke. Yall might have noticed a sustained uptick in nut prices in the north east of the USA from that.
P.S. OP, bringing up the water shortage in CA was a hilariously bad tie-in attempt.
But if you look at the passenger compartment in that video with the ICE car, it's pretty much entirely intact. Now look at this Tesla that hit a tree... in a residential area:
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