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Well, That's one way to deal with the problem.

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>Firefighter Ryan Twombley's TTRC invention is a safer way for first responders to fight EV fires. However, EVs have an unpleasant trick: Once the fire is extinguished, it can spontaneously re-ignite—days, weeks, and even months later. A study in Australia found one extinguished EV "reignited 68 days after the initial incident." In European countries like Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, and neighboring Norway and Sweden, fire departments aren't taking any chances. An increasingly popular approach there is to haul both a crane and a dumpster to the site of a burning EV. Once the fire is extinguished, the vehicle is craned into the dumpster, which is then topped off with water.

Well, That's one way to deal with the problem. Archive: https://archive.today/BVT0v From the post: >>Firefighter Ryan Twombley's TTRC invention is a safer way for first responders to fight EV fires. However, EVs have an unpleasant trick: Once the fire is extinguished, it can spontaneously re-ignite—days, weeks, and even months later. A study in Australia found one extinguished EV "reignited 68 days after the initial incident." In European countries like Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, and neighboring Norway and Sweden, fire departments aren't taking any chances. An increasingly popular approach there is to haul both a crane and a dumpster to the site of a burning EV. Once the fire is extinguished, the vehicle is craned into the dumpster, which is then topped off with water.

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[–] • 1 pt (edited )

Excellent news then, that EV fires are extremely rare. Personally, given the choice, I'd rather sit in an EV, slowly catching fire over minutes to hours than in an ICE converting its much greater amount of potential energy into heat in seconds to minutes.

https://poal.co/static/images/cec6963c26666d98.png https://www.autoinsuranceez.com/gas-vs-electric-car-fires/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LluZTkjyBpI https://www.topgear.com/car-news/mythbusting-evs/mythbusting-world-evs-are-electric-cars-susceptible-catching-fire

[–] • 3 pts

given the amount of pollution that SINGLE ev car can make, compared to gasoline car

I say that we have ALREADY reached the limit and ALL EV production MUST stop

END of this idiocracy

EV pollute MORE than a normal car EV take LONGER to charge EV have ZERO resale value

plus

COST MORE

[–] • 0 pt

No offense. Do some unbiased research. Test drive a few. I've been doing this for... let's see... holy crap, over 45 years. Try it, you might get there one day. Or not. In the grand scheme of things, we're all just a blip.

If you have specific questions, go ahead. Have a nice weekend.

[–] • 0 pt

You've been driving EVs for over 45 years?

[–] • 2 pts

I have seen some pretty damn aggressive EV fires. They can take seconds to blow up.