Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Nice to see an ICE car fire getting some media attention for a change (www.bbc.co.uk)

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It often feels like EV fires make major headlines while ICE vehicle fires go under reported despite being order of magnitude more likely and common. Nice to see an ICE vehicle fire actually making media headlines for a change.

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[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

It's not that odd.

Gasoline and diesel cars have been around and commonly used for 100 years. Every fire station from New York to obscure towns in Arkansas have the equipment to deal with burning hydrocarbons.

Not many fire departments have the equipment handy to put out a battery fire. Some bigger departments do, but not all.

So when Jim Bob puts his truck in the ditch and catches it on fire after a Saturday night at the bar, the local volunteer FD can just roll over there and put it out. But when someone's EV catches fire, oftentimes all that the local FD can do is make sure the fire doesn't spread to houses or grass or trees in the area, and the car has to burn all the way down.