Re: Tesla Semi trator fire.

On 8/22/2024 4:22 PM, cyclintom wrote:

Fire departments now know that water had no effect on Lithium Ion battery fires so they simply close roads down and let them burn out on  their own.
 https://kstp.com/world/roadside-tesla-semi-fire-where-temperatures-reached-1000-degrees-draws-in-ntsb-investigative-team/
 According to Flunky, electric cars don't burn.

I don't remember exactly what he said, but I doubt it was "electric cars don't burn." Like me, he tends to look at actual (gasp!) data.
 From https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/environment-energy-coordination/climate-matters/EV-less-fire-risk
"Kelly Blue Book reported on findings from a study that shows EV are actually less likely to cause or be involved in fires than gasoline-powered or hybrid vehicles.1 Data from the National Transportation Safety Board showed that EVs were involved in approximately 25 fires for every 100,000 sold.  Comparatively, approximately 1,530 gasoline-powered vehicles and 3,475 hybrid vehicles were involved in fires for every 100,000 sold."  (And I think that Funky might have linked that same data.)
So it's not that EVs _never_ burn. It's that gasoline cars are over 60 times as likely to burn.
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- Frank Krygowski