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- May 13, 2018
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I have videos of fires at charging stations and of a windmill self destructing. As this new electric infrastructure matures. they will be more common. All fuel sources have weak points, especially while developing.
Thermal runaway can happen with any type of battery. I've had it while taxiing a PA-28, luckily I caught it before it became self-sustaining, but the fumes would have been incapacitating if I couldn't have opened the door.NiCad batteries had all sorts of thermal runaway (a discrete way to say often uncontrolled fire) problems 40 years ago but they are extremely reliable now.
The thing that gets me is people are putting these new batteries in aircraft and not using specially tested and certified aviation batteries (remember the early 787 battery problems and those were certified).
For those who have never seen a thermal runaway on one of the new electric car batteries watch this - and keep a close eye on the truck beside it.
IF this happened on an aircraft what chance do you think the pilot has of finding an emergency landing area and safely landing before things get out of control.
In saying that, you still see videos of fires at petrol stations....
No...
Most of what I've seen has been people getting in and out of their cars while fuelling.
That was on the Whangamoas. The road isn't that narrow, typical single-lane each way.I bet there were more electric car fires in NZ last year than fires at petrol stations, and that they were more frightening. I saw one story, with photos, on an electric BMW that caught fire in a very narrow SI road and the people in it lost everything because it took them a couple of minutes to find a safe place to pull over after the "call your dealer" light came on. And it blocked the road both ways because the fire was so fierce.
That was on the Whangamoas. The road isn't that narrow, typical single-lane each way.
Honestly, I've see more burnt-out petrol vehicles on the side of the road, but no-one seems to think there's a problem there.
and how long were the 'few minutes' that the previous car had been driving with the light on? When everything is burnt out, the only source of information is the same person who is asking the insurance company to pay out.Yes there are burnt out cars for other reasons but what percentage of the cars on NZ roads are electric and what percentage of the fires are electric?
There was a nice new diesel SUV burnt out beside the road near us last year. City slicker pulled over onto the long dry grass and kept his engine running while taking a phone call. The exhaust set the grass on fire which burnt through the plastic fuel line and hey presto. That is again idiot operator problem, not the cars fault. Our local firies also had to put out a long series of grass fires as well as a car fire because an idiot kept driving their car when the tire shredded and the wheel was destroyed and brake drum was sending sparks everywhere. It was all filmed by the car behind and made the news here. Again a @#$%^&*() moron behind the wheel problem. In this case he knew he had a flat tire and was driving to a servo to get it changed.
Not a built in at the factory problem.
All of them are imposters ... All of those lands belong to us!How about the Mongol Empire?
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