inariAnd yet only one of them gets flogged in the media
raman_klogiusThe problem is that water puts out fuel fires, but fuels battery fires
Fireman know that, they use foams and dust for electrical fires even if no lithium batteries are present.
It took the firemen 45 minutes to put out my car after the full fuel tank ruptured.
An EV catching fire isn’t an ‘electrical fire’, it’s a metal fire. That’s why it takes so long to put out and you just kind of try to suffocate it and let it die out.
(I didn’t know/heard about it on safety meetings that the firefighters differentiate between them, but that makes sense. “Electrical fire” in the firefighter sense, which includes gasoline burning on some wires that carry current.)