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2023-07-04 Science & Technology

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Posted by NN2N1 2023-07-04 04:33|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Many paragraphs down -

According to researchers at Auto Insurance EZ, there are 25.1 EV fires per 100,000 vehicles sold. Gas-powered vehicles, by contrast, caught fire 1,529.9 times per 100,000 vehicles sold.

When it comes to fires, hybrids — vehicles that have an internal combustion engine and also use energy stored in batteries — take the prize. For every 100,000 hybrid vehicles sold, 3,474.5 hybrids caught fire.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-07-04 07:18|| 2023-07-04 07:18|| Front Page Top

#2 I always lived in volunteer fireman country. A bunch of guys doing an important job, except for the drunks with blue lights running stop signs and the vastly overweight guys having heart attacks at call-outs.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-04 08:46|| 2023-07-04 08:46|| Front Page Top

#3 More stuff that we are not allowed to know.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-04 11:05|| 2023-07-04 11:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Looking at Procopius2k 2023-07-04 07:18 provided data the figures.
I agree the figures as presented are correct

HOWEVER,
I understand, those figures also included years of much OLDER Gas Vehicles than the EV's could have had on the road.

I am currently looking for authoritative data sources that compare Apples to Apples for a fair snapshot of EV-GAS fires per 1000 vehicles say for the years 2018-2022. A data source, NOT heavily invested in the success of EV's of GAS.

Either way, once an EV is on fire it is usually total loss. The burnt out EV vehicle becomes a major HAZMAT problem, resulting in well over a 100++% Negative Carbon - Environmental impact pile. Leaving little, if any recyclable scrap.

Where a Gas vehicle usually has a much-much smaller HAZMAT Impact footprint and has recyclable parts and materials.

Posted by NN2N1 2023-07-04 17:57|| 2023-07-04 17:57|| Front Page Top

#5 On call 24/7, substandard equipment, training and call outs on our own dime, and dying doing what we love, saving lives and property in the process. Maybe squeeze in some Independence Day and other Holiday Parades and Charity Work.

Other than that.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-07-04 18:52|| 2023-07-04 18:52|| Front Page Top

#6 I guess that a good tip would be not to exit your EV without everything that you can’t stand to lose. It would suck to see your wedding album, a stash of krugerrands or loyal dog Fido become party of the electric flambé.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-04 18:53|| 2023-07-04 18:53|| Front Page Top

#7 'I lost my firearms in a tragic EV fire.'

Firefighters, of whom 75% are volunteers, have been ringing this bell for years. We want to live to an old age in a capacity where putting water on the wrong stuff will get you dead right there.

And you, in a capacity of vechicle accident, don't want to be in a frame made of materials so light and therefore so strong extrication gets...complicated. You will fit through the rear windshield. What of you we can take.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-07-04 21:08|| 2023-07-04 21:08|| Front Page Top

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