How long before that new car is just a throw away item?

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    This is an exercise carried out by the Victorian fire service to train on how to handle EV fires ....
    this one is deliberately damaged using a portapower ram to puncher the cells, after cutting two holes in the battery case so creating a flow path for the fire ..... watch when they drag the fire blanket out, the fire is all over, just needed sand bags around the edges to hold it down.

    When the trucks go up over here, all they can do is try to control where the diesel runs off to down the drains so they don't set the local waterways on fire as well ..... the trucks burn till there is nothing but a twisted chassis and an engine block, even the bitumen under the truck is destroyed and the road repair crews have to dig up that section of road and relay it from the packed rock layer up .....

    T1 Terry

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    This is the long version if you are into watching fire fighting failures, how someone wasted half a million dollars on a chemical to add to the water that simply doesn't work, you can see the person who was going to get a new butt reamed for him, he's the chief looking bloke who keeps getting in front of the camera
     
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    Forgot to mention I didn't bother with the video at all.:cool:
    Knew Na-ion was around that of LFP in terms of energy density. LFP is already becoming the most common EV chemistry because of costs, so I don't see Na-ion not succeeding when it comes to market. The issue, in the US, is the charging situation. 250kW and higher chargers existing doesn't mean they are available. Fast charge rates won't help the car owner if there isn't a charger around that supports it.

    Talk of structural batteries from manufacturers seems to be implying the cells being even more integrated into the chassis. So dropping the battery from under the car for service or replacement becomes more difficult

    They use to bring in a back hoe to bury VWs with a burning magnesium engine block on site.

    No longer a need to mention the giant fire blankets. It is just a question of time until all departments have them. They, and water tanks, don't solve the built in oxidizer issue. An EV is going to require a far longer fire watch than an ICE car no matter how the fire is handled.
    Is the equipment for the foam just not practical for such use?
    They could also use an even bigger fire blanket;) Such will be needed for EV trucks.
     
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