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James Farrell's avatar

I live in Phoenix, and there are a LOT of EVs on the roads here and in the surrounding satellite cities. Even the local evening news stations will never dare to mention "spontaneous combustion " as the cause of the once or twice weekly EV fires that tend to take place on the freeways or major arterial surface streets. They always end the coverage with: "The cause of the fire is under investigation" as though a new Tesla would burst into flames for any other reason!

It's amazing how tightly contained the narratives around ANY EV fire, or lithium-ion battery caused conflagration are.

Our global, national, and local media are so wed to the success of "electric everything" that they are willing to appear foolish, or neglectful, or to be openly lying when the hazards of these technologies are blindingly evident.

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Tuco's Child's avatar

Rotsa Ruck putting out a 🔥

Firefighters have a huge problem with lithium battery fires is that they just can’t hose them down with water and expect to stop them. H2O chemically reacts with lithium to form flammable hydrogen gas and lithium hydroxide in what we chemists call an oxidation-reduction reaction.

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