I always knew that EV’s are a scam and made to push something that works and replace it with expensive Green tech that only does more harm than good. The amount of destruction needed to produce a car that doesn’t exhaust something we breathe out is not worth having the non CO2 car. The batteries alone are a hazard in of themselves for the environment.
A Tesla Semitruck exploded and burned which had to use a helicopter and 50 Thousand Galloons of water to put out a single Truck.
When a Tesla Semi caught fire in August, it took about 50,000 gallons of water to battle the flames, according to a new report.
The Placer County, California, accident took place at about 3 a.m. on Aug. 19 when the driver of the truck lost control, leading to the truck going off the highway, hitting a steel post and a tree, before rolling down an embankment, according to a report from the National Transportation Safety Board.
As a result of the crash, a fire broke out in the truck’s engine.
“Traffic on I-80 was diverted as emergency responders worked to control the fire, using about 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish the flames and cool the vehicle’s batteries,” the NTSB wrote.
“Additionally, CAL FIRE used an aircraft to apply fire retardant to the immediate area as a precautionary measure,” it wrote.
The report said that parts of I-80 were closed for 15 hours to “ensure the batteries were at a safe temperature for vehicle recovery operations and to prevent the spread of the fire to surrounding forested areas.”
“The truck tractor was subsequently transported to an open-air facility and monitored for 24 hours. No reignition of the truck-tractor’s battery system was observed during this period,” the NTSB reported.
According to the Associated Press, firefighters had said that the battery reached a temperature of 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit during the post-crash fire.
Remember this was 50K of water in California. That state has had problems with conserving water to the point where residents have to accept that water is going to be forever rationed. Meanwhile this truck gets that much water.
Also it needed to be cooled down to recover and monitor. The Truck fucking exploded from the battery. Its good as gone and the remains cannot just be thrown away they have to be specially destroyed which costs more than throwing a exploded car in a junk yard.
They had to site there and wait for the battery to die in the exploded SemiTruck as it somehow cooled while black smoke entered the atomsphere.
Cal Fire Division Chief Ryan Woessner said lithium-ion fires are a waiting game that ends when the batteries no longer have any charge and the fire cools to 100 degrees, according to KCRA-TV.
“When they break down, they start feeding off each other, and they catch fire. They burn themselves out using the battery itself as fuel,” he said.
In 2020, the NTSB issued a warning about the potential dangers of EVs to first responders.
“Fires in electric vehicles powered by high-voltage lithium-ion batteries pose the risk of electric shock to emergency responders from exposure to the high-voltage components of a damaged lithium-ion battery,” the NTSB wrote on its website.
“A further risk is that damaged cells in the battery can experience uncontrolled increases in temperature and pressure (thermal runaway), which can lead to hazards such as battery reignition/fire. The risks of electric shock and battery reignition/fire arise from the ‘stranded’ energy that remains in a damaged battery,” the NTSB wrote.
This is what is going to be normal in places like California where they are trying to enforce an all EV state. Imagine the chaos when these vehicles begin to explode in rural areas where fire hydrants are more spread out.
“In rural areas, especially on interstates where there are no hydrants, this is going to create a logistical issue for emergency response agencies as they’re going to have to shuttle the water up that they need,” the National Volunteer Fire Council’s Tom Miller said, according to NewsNation.
Safe to say I’m sticking with my CO2 emitting cars instead of the soy cell exploding cars. There are real issues in the environment, cars emitting the gas you breathe out isn’t one of them.
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