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Steve Walker wrote:
On 09/10/2019 16:50, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
dennis@home wrote:
And the CO2 and other stuff when they catch fire :-)

Apparently some EU countries have special mobile tanks to
dump an entire Tesla car into and flood it, because those
Lithium batteries are sods to put out after a vehicle fire.

water of course makes it worse.


And a full tank of petrol is safe as houses? ;-)

Relatively, probably. Even with cars that are well on fire, only a small
proportion ever have the petrol tank go.

But on nearly every car crash you see on TV, the whole thing explodes into
bits? ;-)

Electric car fires are quite
likely to be battery fires in the first place and are then very
difficult to deal with.

Have you figures to support this 'quite likely'? And why would they be
more likely to burst into flames than other battery devices?
Everything has a risk. Like a diesel spill killing a motor cyclist.

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