Electric Vehicle Fires: Nearly Impossible to Extinguish | The Pipeline

Electric Vehicle Fires: Nearly Impossible to Extinguish | The Pipeline

"Here's something you won't hear much about in the mainstream media -- America's firefighters are struggle to develop procedures for dealing with electric vehicles that have crashed and burst into flame. 

"The problem," explains Jazz Shaw, "is that despite not having a tank full of gasoline, electric cars burn longer and more fiercely than automobiles with internal combustion engines." 

Why is that?

Damaged banks of lithium-ion batteries...

...Shaw reports that back in April it took eight fireman seven hours to get a burning Tesla under control outside of Houston, and they used roughly 28,000 gallons of water to do it...Read all.