Electric vehicles are exploding from water
damage after Hurricane Ian, top Florida
official warns
Fox News,
by
Thomas Catenacci
Original Article
Posted By: DVC,
10/6/2022 11:47:20 PM
A top Florida state official warned Thursday that firefighters have battled a number of fires caused by electric vehicle (EV) batteries waterlogged from Hurricane Ian.
EV batteries that have been waterlogged in the wake of the hurricane are at risk of corrosion, which could lead to unexpected fires, according to Jimmy Patronis, the state's top financial officer and fire marshal.
"There’s a ton of EVs disabled from Ian. As those batteries corrode, fires start," Patronis tweeted Thursday. "That’s a new challenge that our firefighters haven’t faced before. At least on this kind of scale."
"It takes special training and understanding of EVs to ensure these fires are put out quickly and safely,"
Reply 1 - Posted by:
SALady 10/6/2022 11:54:23 PM (No. 1297538)
I wonder if batteries on EV's are even covered by insurance (since batteries don't seem to be normally covered on gas-powered cars)?!?!?!?
Given how expensive batteries are for EV's, I'm guessing if they are even covered, your insurance is going to skyrocket (probably at least a 200% or 300% increase).
Just saying...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Nimby 10/7/2022 12:13:31 AM (No. 1297543)
The entire administration is wearing “ new clothes” along with the dimwit emperor
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
thefield 10/7/2022 12:21:58 AM (No. 1297545)
1. 72-80,000 $
2. 30,000 $ Replacement battery
3., 349 miles maybe.
4. 4 - 96 hours to recharge
5. Batteries explode
6. Car catches fire
7 Governor tells you not to charge.
8. Limited production minerals controlled by China.
Get deal
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 10/7/2022 12:31:29 AM (No. 1297548)
I am sure the smoke from an EV battery fire is extremely toxic. No studies on health risks have been done. It doesn't matter though. Going green has its costs and sacrifices.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
texaspast 10/7/2022 12:42:52 AM (No. 1297554)
OK, here's your chemistry 1405 experiment. Find an old cell phone. Take the lithium battery out. Open up the battery (not hard at all). Separate the black sheet of something and a white sheet of something from the gray slab of something in the middle. Oh, you really need to have nitrile gloves on here. Take the gray slab out and throw it into a body of water - not a bowl of water, it will crack it. Make it a swimming pool or pond. Now enjoy the red and lavender flames emitting from the gray slab in the water! It is REALLY hot, and will either melt or inflame anything it comes into contact with. It can't be extinguished - you just have to wait for the gray slab to be totally consumed. That gray slab is lithium. Same thing as in your e-car, except your e-car's battery is waaaay bigger.. So do not let your car get immersed in sea water! Or in a wreck on a rainy night, or run through a big puddle if your battery compartment has an undetected breach . . . There won't be enough of your ashes left to put in an urn.
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#5 - I remember a demonstration in high school chemistry class in which the teacher placed a small piece of another alkili metal - sodium - into a beaker of water. To use the vernacular of the time (~1970), it was really cool.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rinktum 10/7/2022 2:22:18 AM (No. 1297567)
In a sane world, these vehicles would already be recalled. This failure to protect citizens from this obvious threat is a major issue. What the government is sayin to to us is that they have to allow these EV companies to break a few eggs in order to make their utopian green omelet regardless of the potential danger we are seeing right before our eyes. When you put your political agenda above the safety of the American people, you have crossed a line and should be punished severely at the ballot box in November. You cannot vote for any democrat unless you approve of their corrupt tactics, anti-American agenda, and the horrific results they have brought to every aspect of your lives. In order for our survival every voter must reject en masse this wretched party. It will send a message both to the democrats and republicans. We the people are ticked and we are not going to allow anyone to destroy our country.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rich323 10/7/2022 3:19:17 AM (No. 1297572)
Biden’s statement that Hurricane Ian, “The one thing this has finally ended is a discussion about whether or not there’s climate change, and we should do something about it.” It’s true and the answer is EV vehicles not practical, nor affordable and definitely NOT SAFE. Lithium and water DO NOT mix! Look it up.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MissGrits 10/7/2022 3:31:47 AM (No. 1297576)
Forget the expense of these cars and the fires. And ask yourself: Do I want 5 minutes at the gas station or 5 hours at the charging station in order to go from point A to point B? Problem solved!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 10/7/2022 6:47:10 AM (No. 1297640)
Governments will not act until an EV battery ignites in a tunnel whereby toxic fumes kill several people who cannot escape, and fire fighters cannot extinguish the fire.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
privateer 10/7/2022 6:59:14 AM (No. 1297649)
The EV automobile is the stupidest, most dangerous, retrograde 'advance' since the invention of the horseless carriage. One must ask: who are the evil, greedy, selfish people who benefit from forcing them on the American People?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 10/7/2022 7:35:48 AM (No. 1297673)
I have 2 5 gallon cans of gas stored in my back shed for mowing and in an emergency can toss them into the back of my F150 and add it to my 36 gal tank giving me about 800 miles at 80 mph with AC or heater. And can travel well over 1000 miles if i am poking along at 45-50 mph. if i am staying local, I can tap into the 35 gallons in my boat tank. And I can do that while all the power is out.
Try that in your EV when all the power is out for a week or 2...
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
downnout 10/7/2022 8:17:40 AM (No. 1297721)
I wish AOC would drive her Tesla through a nice, big puddle.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 10/7/2022 9:10:10 AM (No. 1297773)
#10 if a disaster would happen as you explained the Government and media will never let the public know. It would be labeled or blame on something else, but it wouldn't be blamed on the EV. Golf carts belong on golf course greens and not on interstate highways. Green energy is a fool's errand.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
thefield 10/7/2022 9:11:53 AM (No. 1297775)
#13 makes a great point. Should ant ev goes through water and is driven by a u.s. congress critter what will be the result be?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
NamVet70 10/7/2022 9:45:22 AM (No. 1297813)
"It takes special training and understanding of EVs to ensure these fires are put out quickly and safely," - a damaged EV battery starts with a spontaneous internal short of one or a few of the hundreds or thousands of battery cells which release enough stored energy to break down the surrounding cells. This is a chemical discharge and cannot be extinguished by starving it of air. Flooding it with enough water may absorb enough of the heat to prevent it from igniting other structures and from burning a hole in the roadway. If it is on a blacktop road it can even set the road on fire. I don't think there is any way to put the fire out until all the energy in the battery is discharged. An ev battery is similar to an enormous thermite grenade. You can only try to contain the damage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsuYxFBHsiQ&t=80s
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
3XALADY 10/7/2022 10:50:23 AM (No. 1297911)
I saw a picture one time of an EV bus on fire in NYC, one was parked behind it and it caused that one to catch fire too. I agree with all comments, especially 7 and 11. We have common sense. What happened to the ones making those decisions. Oh wait! $$$$$$ rules.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
RWPollock 11/1/2022 12:15:39 AM (No. 1320478)
Biden and Pete B are a joke. Electric cars are a viable option to gas cars….yeah right! How much are batteries to replace? 12,000 dollars? Liberals- I wish they stop making decision solely on emotion.
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So, if they get wet, they will catch on fire. Not good. And, soon enough, someone will be electrocuted by one of these things while trying to put out a fire, or deal with it after it has flooded.