Firefighter here. Tesla's emergency response manual says that the minimum amount of water needed to extinguish the fire is about 30,000 gallons. Foam doesn't do shit.
What is the catch on fire ratio for EV:ICE anyway? ICE should be increasing a little with wide application of turbos, but what is the absolute fire risk of both cars?
A recent study conducted by AutoInsuranceEZ using data from the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) showed that electric cars in the US caught fire at a rate of 25.1 per 100,000 sales compared to 1,530 for ICE vehicles and 3,475 for hybrids.
Lol. So what is the problem? Burning 1530 ice cars per 100,000 seems acceptable to me, too.
Nice info. You are like google without promoting furry-culture.
Lithium is water-reactive. This is why a cell phone will erupt into flames if the long flat cell inside is punctured. When punctured, the lithium is exposed to the air and it will react with the water content in the air.
I think it isn't that such an amount of water is needed to extinguish the lithium fire, it is that so much water is needed to constantly fuel the lithium to get it to burn itself out while also constantly saturating surrounding materials to lessen their likelihood of igniting so only the lithium burns.
Why approve for people to ride around in such an insane tinderbox without it having its own for suppression system? Cars had to have a way to prevent the gas tanks from easily exploding in a crash, right? I mean it has to be after people died from it but it isn't like we didn't already know those types of batteries explode when punctured from cellphone and laptop accidents.
Imagine the 18-wheeler version of this. Or flying in a plane powered by this shit.
What, they don't know the baking soda trick?
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