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2022-10-07 Science & Technology

Electric vehicles are exploding from water damage after Hurricane Ian, top Florida official warns

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-10-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Salt water and batteries don't mix well.

Posted by 3dc 2022-10-07 03:36|| 2022-10-07 03:36|| Front Page Top

#2
#1 Salt water and batteries don't mix well.
Posted by: 3dc 2022-10-07 03:36

3dc,

Reality and batteries don't mix well. Our two-minute warning was that snap blizzard a couple years ago that locked up I95 all the way through Virginia, which should have alerted the Electroatti to what happens when you have to rely on that battery to keep you alive in conditions it was never intended to deal with. When you start getting larger numbers of EVs out there in the winter, people are going to start dying.

And in Florida - since we don't teach basic science any more and/or choose to ignore it - it's going to be ignored by the people jamming EVs down our throats because Florida.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-10-07 06:52|| 2022-10-07 06:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Gee, water and lithium - who could have known?

Posted by Mercutio 2022-10-07 08:49|| 2022-10-07 08:49|| Front Page Top

#4
How will a Fire Dept handle Multiple Vehicle Accidents in 10-15 years?

When the majority of the vehicles are supposed to be Battery powered and stand a 60+% likelihood causing uncontrolled fires thst cannot be hosed down.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-10-07 09:29|| 2022-10-07 09:29|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Dehydrated water! That's the ticket!

Posted by Frank G 2022-10-07 09:35|| 2022-10-07 09:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Historians will record that this was the era where we were putting lithium in batteries instead of in the water supply of blue areas, where it might have done some good.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-07 10:30|| 2022-10-07 10:30|| Front Page Top

#7 How will a Fire Dept handle Multiple Vehicle Accidents in 10-15 years?

Early retirement.

But if it makes you feel better, your local social worker squad will tape off the area then sweep up after the fires are out.

Kidding. Sort of. I'd go with a remote operated "concrete sprayer". The can openers will be as well I'd imagine, as the vehicles get lighter the frame materials get stronger, probably stronger than a crew served cutter/spreader could be carried. Then people to do the finer work.

Now that aspect will be interesting. The people in charge of that are today's high schoolers, and the bulk work is today's fifth graders. Basically the same problems Armed Forces Recruiters are having with candidates.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-10-07 12:00|| 2022-10-07 12:00|| Front Page Top

#8 I would avoid getting near any electric vehicle in a flood. You have an ungrounded 400 volt power source with nearly unlimited amperage. Don't become the path to ground.

Posted by Snash Shairt9621 2022-10-07 12:05|| 2022-10-07 12:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Dec 1st Tesla is going to start delivering electric semi-trucks to Pepsi. So .. don't be within 1/4 mile of a wet Pepsi truck....

Posted by 3dc 2022-10-07 14:23|| 2022-10-07 14:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Battling fires from water-damaged EVs 'ties up resources' in Hurricane Ian recovery, Florida fire dept says

Posted by Skidmark 2022-10-07 15:46|| 2022-10-07 15:46|| Front Page Top

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