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byRitchCraft ( 6454710 ) writes:
Germany better put some extra money aside to beef up their fire brigades if they let Chinesium into the mix.
bySique ( 173459 ) writes:
There is already good data available for the average number of car fires for EVs, and the result is: EVs don't burn. They are more than 25 times as fire resistant as internal combustion powered cars, and 35 times as fire resistant as hybrids. Additionally, there has been extensive testing how to handle an EV fire, and it's quite easy: Keep the temperature of the burning part below 80 degree Celsius or 175 F, and you are fine.
Don't repeat what you have heard somewhere, look into an actual fire fighter manu
byMr. Dollar Ton ( 5495648 ) writes:
They are more than 25 times as fire resistant as internal combustion powered cars, and 35 times as fire resistant as hybrids.
Are they made of asbestos or something?
Or perhaps you mean the frequency of them having fire accidents is that much lower?
bySique ( 173459 ) writes:
... Which is basically the same. EVs don't have much things built in that can burn easily, other than internal combustion engines, which have a lot of fuel on board. Without the fuel adding to the fire, cars would not burn that easily. Electricity on board is a fire hazard, yes, as can be seen with hybrids, which have an even higher risk of fires, because having high voltage lines parallel to fuel lines might not be a good idea.
byAmiMoJo ( 196126 ) writes:
LFP batteries are very hard to ignite anyway. There are videos of people trying, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
In the end they attack it with power tools, and it still doesn't catch fire. The plastic case does, but the battery itself doesn't.
bydrinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes:
Roughly half of EVs still have NCMs. We should have long since banned NCMs, especially large ones, but arguably all of them.
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byshilly ( 142940 ) writes:
Tiresome stupid bullshit. NCMs still catch fire much less frequently than ICE vehicles, and I'll bet you typed your demand to ban NCMs on a device powered by an NCM. If we're banning things because they're too quick to burn, ban fucking ICE vehicles first.
bydrinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes:
Tiresome stupid bullshit.
99% of what you write? Agreed.
NCMs still catch fire much less frequently than ICE vehicles
As if that were the only thing that mattered. Fuck off with your stupid shallow clown shit.
and I'll bet you typed your demand to ban NCMs on a device powered by an NCM
Wrong. As my prize, can I have you fuck off? You didn't post for a few days there and it was great.
If we're banning things because they're too quick to burn, ban fucking ICE vehicles first.
Oh yeah, just throw the economic system into chaos by banning the technology we depend on right now, great fucking plan. What a spectacular genius you are.
Just in case anyone with a brain is reading this thread for some reason: NCMs aren't bad only because they are more likely to combust tha
byshilly ( 142940 ) writes:
Jesus fuck, was this really your response? This is what you consider an effective rejoinder?
*Obviously*, NCM fires are harder to put out than LFP fires, but they are so rare it that the overall risk is much lower than for ICE. Risk = frequency times severity. This is extremely well rehearsed by now. You know it. I know it. The dogs in the street know it.
Also, if your device isn't running on an NCM battery, it will be a lithium cobalt oxide or a lithium polymer battery, both of which have a *higher fire risk
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