Anyone in the RC community can tell you: batteries are fickle. They require special care, being charged at the right rate, and stored at a specific charge. Failure to do this degrades the battery. Failure to replace degraded batteries leads to fire.
We saw first hand what happens when you distribute high power batteries to normies when all those "hover boards" were given to normies and there were enough fires for them to be banned on planes.
Now rich assholes have ev cars, hipsters have electric bikes, and governments have electric busses. WTF did we think was going to happen?
The best part about a lithium battery fire is that it's self-oxidizing (i.e. smothering it with a blanket or foam won't work) and EXTREMELY HOT (>500°C)
Ah, that environmentally-friendly zero-emission smoke. Healthy!
Safe and effective!
Anyone in the RC community can tell you: batteries are fickle. They require special care, being charged at the right rate, and stored at a specific charge. Failure to do this degrades the battery. Failure to replace degraded batteries leads to fire.
We saw first hand what happens when you distribute high power batteries to normies when all those "hover boards" were given to normies and there were enough fires for them to be banned on planes.
Now rich assholes have ev cars, hipsters have electric bikes, and governments have electric busses. WTF did we think was going to happen?
Queue Leslie Nielsen “Nothing to see here, move along”
The best part about a lithium battery fire is that it's self-oxidizing (i.e. smothering it with a blanket or foam won't work) and EXTREMELY HOT (>500°C)
I'm honestly considering posting a video on how these fires are put out, it's going to absolutely cripple the fire services.
Sand or specialized foam were the two methods that I was taught when I worked with battery banks years ago. That or flood the room with C02/Halon.
Supposedly, for these vehicle fires, you need a special vehicle with a container on the back filled with foam to place the car in.
At no point in the video do I see anyone escaping/fleeing the bus.
"No one was injured."
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