Ev is a good option but buying is out of reach. It will take more time to be in ‘reach’. Of course battery issues are free of cost with those vehicles.
Buying an Electric Vehicle in the US
Hope you all read about that incredible disaster
with these burning e-cars in front of Netherland’s coast.
“Spontaneous combustion” happens only with the batteries of e-cars.
Extinction is s extremely difficult.
Beside chemicals a lot water for cooling is needed to avoid reinflammation
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I check all local planning permission applications around my home to help ensure only safe changes occur.
One application included an EV charging point, so I too thought it a fire risk, but when I divided how many fires by how many vehicle types, to my surprise, EV are not less safe than ICE.
However within the EV fires they are far more common in illegal imports, cheaper batteries.
So I matters there’s regulations on manufacturing and imports.
No you don’t use water to put out an EV fire. The water reacts with the Lithium and usually makes the fire worse, you need to stop the oxygen in air getting to the fire using specialist fire extinguishers which doesn’t expand under heat, smother the fire so it naturally goes out for lack of oxygen. Remember that water contains oxygen.
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I said water is needed to cool the battery to avoid reinflammation.
Not to extinct the fire.
This is done by foam.
The danger of reinflammation of the battery is high when its not totally cooled.
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Water to keep a battery cold after fire extinguished? I’d be surprised if even that’s a good idea.
The Powerhouse I got recently is in the separate garage if it caught fire less chance of the home catching fire…but from all the evidence, I have confidence Anker products won’t set alight.
This can be read in articles from fire brigades and it makes sense.
I am sure they now their job and they know to handle such a battery burn,