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

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  1. T1 Terry

    T1 Terry Senior Member

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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.
     
    #64 Trollbait, Jun 26, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    Gasoline has its 'little problems' too.

    What EVangelists seem to be forgetting is that they only got to the party about 20 years ago - which is a lot longer than it too humans to adapt to using gasoline.
    Because my beloved government is ever struggling to thwart the beneficial side effects of Darwinism, we're STILL having to modify store-bought gas cans to make then usable by normies.
    Petrol cars almost never explode when they catch fire - but humans can (and do!!) die horrifically when they are involved in an accident which traps them in a burning car (or bus!) before they can get out safely.
    The human animal's 'super power' is adaptability - NOT ethics.

    It only took about 15 minutes after the invention of the paid parking lots for somebody to invent like one-way directional tire shredders to prevent people from driving the wrong way out of their parking lots to avoid the toll.

    Meanwhile?
    Drunks and elderly drivers still harvest human lives in our interstates by somehow winding up in the wrong lane.
     
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