Electric car charging fire.

[warksfarmer]

Copied from an email sent to me. Not my words.


What you see in this video is a shorting cell setting off a chain reaction for the other vehicles in the charging line.

The first three vehicles in the charging line were totally destroyed in only 1 minute 15 seconds.

The first car was destroyed in about 38 seconds.

The fire cannot be extinguished with water.

The local fire department cannot deal with this type of incident.

Apart from the fact that they would not get there in the short space of time it took for the vehicles to be destroyed – no firemen will approach a burning battery powered vehicle because of the toxic gasses produced during the fire..

No recycling centre will take the burned out vehicles because of the toxic chemicals that the batteries contain.

 

[njneer]

Copied from an email sent to me. Not my words.


What you see in this video is a shorting cell setting off a chain reaction for the other vehicles in the charging line.

The first three vehicles in the charging line were totally destroyed in only 1 minute 15 seconds.

The firs car was destroyed in about 38 seconds.

The fire cannot be extinguished with water.

The local fire department cannot deal with this type of incident.

Apart from the fact that they would not get there in the short space of time it took for the vehicles to be destroyed – no firemen will approach a burning battery powered vehicle because of the toxic gasses produced during the fire..

No recycling centre will take the burned out vehicles because of the toxic chemicals that the batteries contain.

Slightly manipulated , if you look at the time
Stamp in the top video starts at 14.22pm and ends at 14.27pm so the actual fire took 5 minutes not 75 seconds .
Still a quickly spreading fire but not as fast as the video would have you believe .
The cars in the background clearly show the footage is sped up for effect.

 

[sjt01]

A lot slower than a fire at a petrol station!

 

[br jones]

Chinese and speeded up

 

[milkloss]

Electric is the future

 

[Gruber]

Nonsense nothing in email/ video makes sense.

 

[Frankzy]

Yeah it's certainly a lot slower than a petrol fire...

The fire cannot be extinguished with water.

Actually it does so this is just pure BS.

 

[Stuart J]

Yeah it's certainly a lot slower than a petrol fire...


Actually it does so this is just pure BS.

Fire fighters also have quite a number of other extinguishing resources other than water.

 

[ricky_rascal]

How did the truck at the side reverse back? Was there someone in it or was someone daft enough to get in and reverse it back?

 

[milkloss]

Yeah it's certainly a lot slower than a petrol fire...


Actually it does so this is just pure BS.

the problems are that the water ingress to the cell causes them to reignite so no scrappy or yard will take them. In the States they dump them in a water tank and transport them to storage. Lord knows what they do with them then.

water washes all the dioxins and other nasty stuff down the drain and, at over a cubic meter a minute of water needed to put out the average leccy car fire, there's a lot of it.

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[Clive]

ever seen a petrol station catch fire ? they burn really well apparantley

 

[agrimax]

How did the truck at the side reverse back? Was there someone in it or was someone daft enough to get in and reverse it back?

Nobody in it. A short in the switch gear caused by the fire made it move.

 

[Treemover]

Sure an ifone charger can also burn your house down

 

[ricky_rascal]

Nobody in it. A short in the switch gear caused by the fire made it move.

Thought I couldn’t see anyone. Thanks for explanation.