Battery pack fires

[donh54]

NTSB: Tesla was going 116 mph at time of fatal Florida accident, battery pack reignited twice afterwards | Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2018/06/26/ntsb-tesla-was-going-116-mph-at-time-fatal-florida-crash-battery-pack-reignited-twice-afterwards.amp.html)

This one caught fire on impact, again on the tow truck, and again in the storage yard. Another one in California caught fire after 5 days on a storage yard.

Hopefully our firies are being briefed on these units.

[Mick_Marsh]

Well, they do need to use highly reactive chemicals in these batteries in order to get the energy density to achieve any significant distance out of the vehicle.
It's just a part of motoring today and in the future.

[goingbush]

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It's just a part of motoring today and in the future.

Also just part of owning a LandRover apparently

Old Land Rover Catches Fire, Destroys Roughly 1400 Cars in U.K. | News | Car and Driver (https://www.caranddriver.com/news/old-land-rover-catches-fire-destroys-roughly-1400-cars-in-u-k)

[donh54]

Well, they do need to use highly reactive chemicals in these batteries in order to get the energy density to achieve any significant distance out of the vehicle.
It's just a part of motoring today and in the future.

I agree. It's just something you don't generally think of, though. How much more the emergency workers have to take into consideration now, with not only the types of fires that can start, but the fumes, explosion risks etc, from some of these newer propulsion systems. Not only battery packs storing large amounts of energy, but also things like hydrogen (if it ever really gets off the ground), fuel cells, ethanol with it's clear flames, and so on. Add to that the different battery types and what they release when ruptured by an impact. The poor old Firies are going to be bloody busy just doing a risk analysis, let alone cleaning up! [bigsad]