• Rozaŭtuno
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    910 months ago

    “Haha EVs are so dangerous! Look at the fire hazard” like you aren’t literally parking a tank of explosive gas in your house every night

    Just to be pedantic, the real issue there is that EVs are potentially more explosive, and once they’ve caught fire, pouring water on the makes them explode a second time.

    • Scrubbles
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      1010 months ago

      Sure, and that’s one I hear, but it’s blown out of proportion by them. Really whenever you store that level of potential energy in any form it’s going to be dangerous.

    • @djsoren19
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      710 months ago

      So don’t use water? I mean, don’t use water in basically any situation regarding a fire anyway, it’s a last resort, but if you don’t have a fire extinguisher in your home you’re asking for trouble eventually.

    • @__dev@lemmy.world
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      610 months ago

      Pouring water on lithium-ion battery fires is not only safe it’s the primary means of fighting them. It does not make them explode a second time, what it does do is cool down the battery.

      Lithium battery fires though, there you’ll want a class D extinguisher. Those batteries aren’t in EVs though.