Is Current EV Technology Too Dangerous?
From ESPN: “Randall Cobb, family ‘lucky to be alive’ after house fire.”
Wide receiver Randall Cobb and his family escaped a fire at their Nashville, Tennessee, home this week, with his wife, Aiyda, posting, “we are lucky to be alive.”
Aiyda Cobb posted to her Instagram story this week that a Tesla charger “caught fire in the garage late last night and quickly spread” through their home.
“We got out of the house with nothing but the clothes on our back and no shoes on our feet,” she wrote.
The Cobbs have three young sons.
Electric vehicle batteries, like the large batteries used to store electricity from inept sources like wind and solar, are prone to burst into flame. And those fires are hard to extinguish.
Out of curiosity, I googled “battery fire.” Here is a sampling of news headlines from the last 36 hours:
Driver sustained major injuries after colliding with a tree in an EV vehicle that caught fire.
Fiery Tesla Crash Poses Unique Challenges for Firefighters Near Anderson Valley.
Crews respond to battery fire at East Penn facility.
Man critically hurt in Brooklyn fire, e-bike battery probed as cause.
U.S. safety board probes fatal Tesla accident in Florida.
Baseus power banks recalled after dozens of fires, 13 burn injuries.
E-bike catches fire after being left in the sun in West Valley.
Route 35 closed in Naples due to fatal electric vehicle crash, battery fire.
This former Detroit firefighter is tackling the EV battery fire problem.
Lithium Batteries Are Set to Power the World—and Pose New Fire Risks.
Lithium-ion batteries, suspected in Keene fires, fuel widespread concern.
Three rescued from apparent lithium-ion battery fire in Midwood.
Fire breaks out in Tesla Megapack unit in Australia during testing.
Lithium-ion battery found at Brooklyn apartment fire: FDNY.
And, if we go back just 72 hours: Lithium battery factory fire kills 22 in South Korea.
Where is the Consumer Products Safety Commission? Where is the Congressional investigation?
In what other context are products that spontaneously burst into flames legally marketed?
If electric vehicles, e-bikes and batteries for wind and solar installations were not darlings of the ‘green’ scam that controls government at most levels, would they even be legal?
These are serious questions.
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Editor’s note: Cobb is currently signed with the New York Jets
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aaron
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They need dependable power of gas and oil to run their AI
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Tony
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https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/electric-vehicles-a-hazard-too-far/
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Howdy
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Good link Tony.
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Howdy
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Li-ion is not “prone to burst into flame”. They are sensitive to treatment though, and particularly to manufacturing errors that may show up down the line as occurred with a certain Sony mobile phone as I recall.
Excessively harsh discharging, recharging and so on stress the cell, and could bring an underlying problem to the surface. EV use involves a lot of vibration.
Of course, If a crash involves distortion of the battery assembly, or cell shorts etc, then a fire is obvious. Lead acid will do the same, though the energy potential is nowhere near as high.
I’ve yet to see a lithium cell ignite, and even after hammering a nail through one, was disappointed.
Having said that, even though I have a lot of them, and have one on my desk charging from a PSU, I would not tolerate a bank of such cells within my home under active duty, because of the unknowns regarding charge/recharge. Are the cells over-stressed in the name of cost cutting, or boosting performance figures etc.
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John Galt
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A house near me, the garage and half the house burnt down, they rebuilt and now have a detached garage. Don’t know if they were stupid enough to buy more EV’s.
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Dave
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EVs, Unsafe at any Speed!🔥🔥🔥
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