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Let's hope it glides well.....What's next, electric powered generators?
Alice, the first all-electric passenger airplane, takes flight | CNN Business
The world's first all-electric passenger aircraft has successfully taken to the sky.
And once the hole is dug (which takes a LOT of time, I imagine), it's probably a challenge to push that fireball into that pit without damaging the tractor or endangering its operator....and how often do you have a tractor or backhoe handy for such a situation?
What, you mean you can't just use a $500,000 fire engine to push it in?And once the hole is dug (which takes a LOT of time, I imagine), it's probably a challenge to push that fireball into that pit without damaging the tractor or endangering its operator....and how often do you have a tractor or backhoe handy for such a situation?
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This one not so happy....
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Catching on fire is a very broad term that could have many outcomes based on how severe the fire was and was it contained with just minor damage. It is still reported as "catching on fire", even though it might have been one small wire or a small fuel leak that was easily contained without a total loss of the car. I would like to see the stats on how many Petro cars are a total loss and burn to the ground.How about this? 25.1 vs 1529.9? ICE cars burn more than 60 times more than electric!
Fact Check: Do electric cars catch fire more often than combustion engine cars? - EDMO Belux
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............. Electric cars, according to the study, are in fact the least likely to catch fire. 25.1 out of every 100,000 electric vehicles sold caught fire. For the same number of combustion engine cars, 1,529.9 caught fire.
However, hybrid cars are certainly the ones that catch fire the most often. 3,474.5 out of 100,000 hybrid cars sold caught fire. This is more than double the number of cars using internal combustion engines.
According to these figures, hybrid cars burn most frequently, electric cars the least, and combustion engine cars fall somewhere in the middle.
The results of the study suggest that it is clear that electric cars do not burn more frequently than cars with combustion engines.
Not only extinguishing fires, but rescues due to entrapment in an MVA is much more difficult. You can't cut through the posts and pillars anymore. That is where all the high voltage wiring is running. The chance of the car exploding and burning is much higher.
Lithium is a nasty chemical. It is one of the chemicals that the combustion triangle does not apply to. Lithium can and will burn in a total void of oxogen. The only way to put out a lithium fire is to either cool it down (remove the heat) below its combustion point so there is no more metal chemical reactions or just let it burn until it burns it self completely out (remove the fuel).
