"... ah, it burns, it burns!". Local firefighters posted about it, and even AutoBlog did a piece about it.
So, big takeaways here: one, people vastly overestimate how much their vehicle can tow. I have seen people in Tacomas and Colorados try to haul 8-10k+ pounds, and ruin their vehicle doing it. Yes, it says you can tow that much in the manual... but that's on flat, dry ground on a cold day.
Two, Tesla apparently has a "BAIL OUT" alert for when their vehicles begin to slide down hills or towards bodies of water (listen to the YouTube video, apparently the driver told people that the car was warning her to exit the vehicle the entire time it was rolling into the lake).
Lastly, these lithium fires cannot be good for the environment. Even more so when it's happening in bodies of water that people swim in, drink out of, and fish in.
EVs catch fire a lot in your garage or other places it'll be dangerous and do lots of damage.
Hydrogen fuel cells are amazing, but the pumps explode and if somebody wanted to use it for terrorism, purposely puncturing a tank in a building will do huge damage to people and furnishings (even if the structure remains intact).
...gasoline is like democracy; it's a terrible way to power cars, but the alternatives are worse.
Ordinary morons having common access to hydrogen is terrifying. Any hydrogen is an explosion waiting to happen. it's LEL and UEL are pretty much any concertation it wants from 4% to 76%.
I suppose H2 is one way to eliminate smoking. After a year or 2, all the smokers will have blown themselves up.
Yup. Hydrogen explosions used to happen even in special military projects when it was handled under super strict protocols. It's impossible to safety use it as a civilian power source.
Battery tech that's as energy dense but not as explodey as lithium exists but is locked up in patents, probably because the military is using them. It's been a couple of decades though so we might start to see some new battery types appear soon.
Since they can catch fire, arguably you could use an EV for a bomb as well.
Actually, that reminds me of gasoline car bombs too. Could explode an oil truck as well.
It doesn't explode so much as burn really hot. It's more of a drawn out reaction.