He's upset because a water-based suppression system wasn't working? And he stated that fire crews might have a hard time getting into underground parking garages to "pour more water" onto the vehicle?
Huh. I always thought it was a really bad idea to pour water onto electrical fires... and li-ion fires in particular. Weren't these electrical vehicles exploding in Florida from heavy rains?
These electrical vehicles are a really, really bad idea anyhow. There are several reasons they're are being rejected in the US, and none of those reasons are because they are a great way to travel... because they are not even that.
My son's company has sent him out of state to set up a new facility. While he's there, they pick up the tab for rental vehicles. One of the vehicles given him was an electric truck. He didn't have much good to say about it, and traded it back in at his first chance for a real vehicle. It took hours to recharge it on most of the chargers available - even a "quick" charger took 40 minutes or so. Big difference from a 5 minute gas fill-up and back on the road again.
And it only had about a 300 mile range before he had to spend several hours to charge it back up again, usually at least over night.
At least his managed not to explode on him during the couple of days he had to wrestle with it.
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Huh. I always thought it was a really bad idea to pour water onto electrical fires... and li-ion fires in particular. Weren't these electrical vehicles exploding in Florida from heavy rains?
These electrical vehicles are a really, really bad idea anyhow. There are several reasons they're are being rejected in the US, and none of those reasons are because they are a great way to travel... because they are not even that.
My son's company has sent him out of state to set up a new facility. While he's there, they pick up the tab for rental vehicles. One of the vehicles given him was an electric truck. He didn't have much good to say about it, and traded it back in at his first chance for a real vehicle. It took hours to recharge it on most of the chargers available - even a "quick" charger took 40 minutes or so. Big difference from a 5 minute gas fill-up and back on the road again.
And it only had about a 300 mile range before he had to spend several hours to charge it back up again, usually at least over night.
At least his managed not to explode on him during the couple of days he had to wrestle with it.
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