They should tow it out of the environment. /s
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At least the front didn't fall off
"The fires then are hotter because there’s a lot more fuel inside an electric car battery because the battery cells are densely packed. It also takes a lot more water to put the fire out."
That's terribly wrong. More accurate: "Because of the materials they are made of, electric car batteries burn hotter and are harder to put out." There's not "more fuel", wth?
Fun fact: most gasoline car fires are started by electrical issues. Mechanical fuel pumps died out with the carburetor, just about every car made has hot wires going to the gas tank. The conflagration is completely fueled by gasoline though. Diesel is pretty hard to ignite, you can toss a burning match into a pool of diesel and the match will go out. But once ignited it'll burn like a champ.
I think it's trying to say that the gasoline cars have no fuel in them when transported (thus less fire risk) versus the batteries which can still burn when "empty" (which I doubt they are)
If that's what they meant (and I'm not convinced it is) then it was also worded badly. Now I wonder how cars are transported - if gas/diesel ones are indeed at empty and if EVs are unplugged to reduce any overheating/shorting. For the latter, it's how phones and batteries are shipped, not assembled and low/no charge.
You're being extremely captious from a statement that has a large chance of being made by someone who likely learned English as a secondary language...
Usually new phones have over half battery. You damage lithium ion batteries when you drain them to 0%, so they wouldn’t ship the cars at no charge either.
Maybe they intended to say that the batteries have higher energy density and, therefor, burn hotter and longer than gasoline?
Trying to dumb down "energy density" to "more fuel"?
There is the problem of what happens when you mix lithium batteries and water.
And a worse problem when you mix lithium and salt water
They saw it coming, they ignored the safety warning, ship catches fire, tale as old as time.
That's pure lithium in those videos. Lithium-ion batteries have a very small percentage of lithium in them. If batteries reacted like that they'd be a nuclear bomb when firefighters dowse them with tons of water to minimize the heat - the water doesn't put out the fire nor cause more burning, it serves to allow the reaction to complete without burning everything else. This is actually a common technique for many chemical fires, the water is just removing part of the heat in vaporization.
Long term water exposure is bad for them though, but not directly because it starts a fire. Salt water can short the battery out and increase a fire risk though, so that's true enough.
Both li-ion and lithium polymer batteries still have many kilograms of lithium. A lithium-ion battery pack for a single electric car contains about 8 kilograms (kg) of lithium, according to figures from US Department of Energy science and engineering research centre Argonne National Laboratory. It may be a small percentage of the total battery pack and coolant weight, but it's still a lot of extremely explosive metal.
It's (mostly) not metallic lithium though, the clue is in the "ion" part of li-ion. I assume you refuse to put salt on your food for fear that the sodium in it will catch fire?
Lithium hexafluorophosphate, which is used in lithium ion batteries, is not elemental lithium and will not explode or burn when merely exposed to water.
They turned them into combustion cars.
But they were backed up on a server somewhere right?
You wouldn't download a car.
I would if I could.
I'd get one from The Pirate Bay too.
For sure, those were just the client cars we still have the server facing cars so we can restore a backup.
How do you quantify 'thought'? And how do they know it is less than 475 thoughts?
How do you lose track of 475 cars? Ain't that what the manifest is for?
They didn't. They didn't want to disclose the actual number of electric cars because of competition.
Ah, ok. Makes more sense. Still stupid given the situation.
I'm stupid: how could that info be valuable for competition?