Feel free to do the research yourself if you don't believe any of the forum members here. We are just discussing it for fun. If you are in charge of drafting up new standards on how to handle burning EVs or something then you should be using more reliable sources than this forum anyway.
Precisely! This thread is just chewing the fat and has little interest in learning the facts of EV fires. Here's one. ICE cars are three times more likely to catch fire as EVs. Well, in the US, according to government numbers.
Firefighters do have special protocols for things that involve electricity like EVs or solar panel arrays. How real the shock hazard is i don't know, hence why i said "in theory", just that nobody wants to be held accountable for someone getting shocked to death so they are careful with it anyway and put protocols in place.
"In theory" is code for, "I don't really know anything about this, but here's my favorite take".
Not saying that internal combustion cars don't burn, or that they are easy to extinguish if they do catch fire. Just that large lithium battery packs present a unique extra challenge in putting the fire out.
By "unique" you mean not needing foam? You mean not spreading around on top of water, getting into sewers and running to any buildings nearby?
I just wish people would stop believing every stupid report they read. Try learning some facts. Real facts, not alternative facts.
Those batteries contain a lot of energy and once damaged they don't need oxygen or heat to release it (also in the process likely damage cells next to it causing those to fail too). Unlike burning gasoline or diesel or plastics that stop burning once deprived of heat or oxygen.
LOL!!! You make it sound easy to put out gasoline fires. A gas tank contains four times the energy of a fully charged battery for a full sized EV. FOUR TIMES!!!
The EVs catching fires is a thing that the media loves to focus on and write about, while they won't even report on a internal combustion car catching fire (unless there is something else in the news story to write about). None of the cars (EV or ICE) spontaneously catch fire often enough for people to be worried about there own car catching fire, sure it happens but it is a few known cases among the many many many cars out there.
Indeed!
I remember a gasoline fire on the DC beltway. A gas truck got pushed over onto a guardrail, which it then could not get off of and ran into a bridge abutment. The whole thing went up in flames killing a number of people, including one person who was able to walk out of the flames, but in his disorientation, walked back into into the fire and was burned to death.
I'm happy with my EV. Once enough of them are on the roads, we won't be carrying loads of hundreds of gallons of liquid death on our highways so much.