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2022-05-09 Europe

Two Electric Buses Spontaneously Explode

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Posted by Fred 2022-05-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top

#1 In the video there was a *pop* in the roof mounted battery pack and within 5-to-6 seconds it had burned through to the cabin. It was a *cough* Energetic Reaction *cough* that looked like a thermite burn -- made me a believer that the technology isn't viable yet, truly.

Posted by magpie 2022-05-09 00:37|| 2022-05-09 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 I am not a professional civil engineer, but it seems to me that spontaneously exploding is not a desirable property for our public infrastructure.

Posted by SteveS 2022-05-09 00:44|| 2022-05-09 00:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Well now they can charge extra for the 'thrill' of riding an potentially exploding bus!

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-05-09 01:33|| 2022-05-09 01:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Now that's riding excitement! Imagine you are riding in a bus going over 30 MPH and you have less than ten seconds to egress... or fry.

Posted by magpie 2022-05-09 02:06|| 2022-05-09 02:06|| Front Page Top

#5 We don't call 'environmentalists' watermelons for no reason. Green on the outside and red inside when they spontaneously combust. The buses were just doing their part to cull as the greenies want to do.

Posted by Silentbrick 2022-05-09 07:10|| 2022-05-09 07:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Just imagine being in those things during an EMP strike.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-05-09 08:03|| 2022-05-09 08:03|| Front Page Top

#7 My son works at a Large Southeastern Metro Fire Station.

They are fighting more and more Electric Vehicle Fires. Thermal Runaway makes fighting the fire really a surround and control process to reduce spreading.

Some places have even put signs up forbidding Electric Vehicle parking near their buildings.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-05-09 09:20|| 2022-05-09 09:20|| Front Page Top

#8

Take a few seconds. Now, after the combustion you see what most people would think to do when unprepared and ignorant - something I believe we can agree on over the last 2 years - go get some water ASAP and douse the flame..dude was lucky he slipped. Watch how quickly fumes fill that room, and these ain't old campfire smells, this is the same aisle as mtth production fumes. Lucky it wasn't raining.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-05-09 10:59|| 2022-05-09 10:59|| Front Page Top

#9 NN2N1,
You catch that EV fire where some brilliant mind found a sand truck and buried the thing?

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-05-09 11:00|| 2022-05-09 11:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe the bus driver can give us a little egress safety spiel before engaging the clutch. Something like: “Hail Mary full of grace…”

Posted by Super Hose 2022-05-09 12:21|| 2022-05-09 12:21|| Front Page Top

#11 If SNL was funny they might do a skit about this.

Have a 'stewardess' go thru the two-minute safety, drop-down-oxygen, and exit protocol with every stop. And of course the oxygen for the drop-down masks is stored in the ceiling panels close to the batteries... perfectly safe.

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-05-09 12:53|| 2022-05-09 12:53|| Front Page Top

#12 .....Or nxt to spent oxygen generator canisters. Sorry, not at all funny.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-05-09 13:08|| 2022-05-09 13:08|| Front Page Top

#13 It's all ecologically sound. They're recycling themselves.

Posted by ed in texas 2022-05-09 15:55|| 2022-05-09 15:55|| Front Page Top

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