On 10/10/2019 11:14, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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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.


Diesel spills don't kill motorcyclist, motorcyclists kill themselves in
many cases.
They appear to think they can take bends at the same speed as a car when
in reality they don't have a chance on public roads.
Cars stick to the roads far better than motorcycles and its not as
dangerous if they over do it.
Roads are pretty unpredictable as far as friction is concerned and a
small bump will throw a motorcycle off but have virtually zero effect on
a car, especially one with working stability control.