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10-07-2024, 01:27 PM | #1 | |
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EV Fires Could be Thwarted
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10-07-2024, 03:18 PM | #2 |
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I was watching a few videos of people's Rivian trucks being just fine even after the flooding had moved the them down the street. Lucky few I suppose. Although it makes sense for an offroad vehicle to have some sort of water protection, vs something like a Tesla being made for the pavement only.
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10-07-2024, 05:26 PM | #3 |
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I wonder how much this will add to the price?
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10-07-2024, 08:12 PM | #4 |
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This is one of many reasons I won't go anywhere near owning an EV.
Whatever price to fix this nonsense is the right price. |
10-07-2024, 08:13 PM | #5 |
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10-08-2024, 12:17 AM | #6 | |
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Exactly. Haven't even heard of any here. We've been through training; but, it just "doesn't happen". This will be great to reduce the low amount that does happen. I'd be more interested in a deployable suppressant for when it does. Don't need a "greek fire" while trying to cut someone out of a car. Or just in general. |
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10-08-2024, 01:34 PM | #7 |
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10-08-2024, 04:54 PM | #8 | |
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and anyway, while I can't find data to back it up, I wouldn't be surprised if the number of EV fires that occur overnight in a garage are much higher than the incidents of ICE fires that occur overnight in a garage. while yeah, just having a car burn down sucks, if it happens on a highway, then insurance gets me a new car. having a car that cannot be easily extinguished burn down in my garage attached to my house though? I lose a heck of a lot more than just my car in a fire on the side of a freeway. |
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The point is they happen rarely but are relatively hard to put out.
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It’s IS an issue, however small. |
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10-09-2024, 04:48 PM | #12 |
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It's not worth worrying about. You're orders of magnitude more likely (perhaps even infinitely more likely - I don't even know if there's been one EV fire death in the US) to die from falling in your own house than you are to die from an EV fire.
And ICE cars do, in fact, catch on fire spontaneously and can easily burn a house down and take out its occupants. We have EVs parked under our kids' rooms and in attached garages for 10 years. I have zero concern about it. |
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This is a good thing. It is not about bashing EV or ICE. Making fires more easily controls. Really nobody loses here.
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10-09-2024, 09:40 PM | #14 | |
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fwiw, I very rarely park our EV in the garage. I do when I go to public parking garages, and when we're leaving for trips in the summer, that's about it. |
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Oh really you say? With what experience is this information coming from? Cause I certainly have some. |
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yeah, for sure, the problem is fires. and they happen with any kind of car regardless of the motor pushing them around, or the fuel source.
the point here is where the fires happen. if I'm puttering down the freeway and my car catches fire, I can remove my kids immediately from the car. if I'm asleep in my home and the car catches fire in the garage, how much time is there to react? and there are incidents of ICE vehicles catching fire spontaneously in the garage, but the cause is pretty quickly assessed and the NHTSA releases a park outside recall until the manufacturer can correct the issue. with a EV, you hit a pothole the wrong way and charge it in the garage, well, there went your home, and no amount of statistics proving ICE fires are more common than EV fires will make that fire not happen. this technology will be great, especially if it removes this as a concern for people that stops them from buying EVs, it is also great if it gives piece of mind to someone who is going to get an EV anyway. |
10-12-2024, 12:23 AM | #18 | |
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And I'd wager the odds of that happening will stay FAR below the odds of an ICE car doing that until they figure it out and pretty much eliminate it. Kinda like the Takata airbag issue. What were/are the odds of ACTUALLY dying from it? How many casualties were linked to that? 427 total with 27 of those being fatal.......out of 67 million airbags. An article on EV vs ICE fires. https://www.motortrend.com/features/...bout-ev-fires/ |
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