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Thread ID: 149671	2021-03-23 19:32:00	Electric car gutted by fire	piroska (17583)	PC World Chat

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1475716	2021-03-23 19:32:00	www.nzherald.co.nz A battery fire in an electric car gutted the vehicle and spread into roadside vegetation near Kerikeri yesterday. 10829It appeared the driver of the compact electric vehicle managed to pull off the road and onto a driveway before the blaze fully took hold. The flames then spread through about 20m of roadside grass and into a hedgerow. The vegetation fire was quickly extinguished by volunteers from the Kerikeri Fire Brigade. The cause was not clear but it was possible the battery had short-circuited or overheated. However, once the fire spread to the engine bay the car's lithium batteries had become very hot. Firefighters spent almost two hours at the scene hosing down the batteries in a bid to cool them down, only returning to the station around 4.30pm.	piroska (17583)
1475717	2021-03-23 20:29:00	expect to start seeing alot more of this, lithium batt fires that cannont be put out . They are know to re-ignite several times after being put out Imaging if that was in your garage when it caught fire. Its not just cars, also electric scooters, electric bikes are catching fire in peoples homes while charging . This one caught fire at a charging station & took out a truck & another car www.youtube.com	1101 (13337)
1475718	2021-03-23 20:41:00	Not that I want to put anyone off buying electric (I own one myself), but I came across this about 2 blocks from my home back in November: 10830 I have no idea of the context - it was obviously parked, and I don't know whether this was spontaneous combustion (batteries too hot after a drive?) or arson, or whatever. We were away for the previous week relocating my son back from Canterbury after finishing his degree, so missed out on any commotion in the neighbourhood. However, it's pretty clear that you don't want to be around when a lithium battery fire gets going!	MushHead (10626)
1475719	2021-03-23 21:21:00	to be fair , petrol fires in cars can also be quite bad, but much less likely to happen. I had a old car catch fire in the engine bay , passing motorist stopped & put it out with a a fire extinguisher . It was running & drive-able again that same day .	1101 (13337)
1475720	2021-03-23 21:23:00	Hmmm, I was expecting to see just a molten blob on the earth, not a fairly intact chassis. The lithium batteries didn't catch fire or they were not fully charged which will greatly add to the explosiveness and intensity of the fire.	zqwerty (97)
1475721	2021-03-23 21:51:00	Just the tip of the Iceberg. Wait until a bus does it with 50 passengers on board. And as I’ve said before, a good nose to tail of EV’s on a Motorway will also be interesting. :waughh:	B.M. (505)
1475722	2021-03-24 05:21:00	to be fair , petrol fires in cars can also be quite bad, but much less likely to happen. I had a old car catch fire in the engine bay , passing motorist stopped & put it out with a a fire extinguisher . It was running & drive-able again that same day . much less likely based on what? do you have some information I haven't seen? There has been a spate of electric cars exploding all over the country as they get more common I assume? I think a key part of the quote was missed Fire chief Les Wasson said it appeared the fire had started from a battery which had been placed on the back seat, not the car's lithium batteries. Lithium batteries are a fire risk to be sure, but I'd need proof to believe it's more likely to happen than a gasoline fire. I've seen plenty of burnt out cars over the years long before electric cars were a thing. I'm not arguing about which fire is worse, just which is more likely. Tesla claims their cars are about 10 times less likely to catch fire than a petrol car, I suspect those numbers are BS as well but I'm not seeing much definitive proof either way. www.crsautomotive.com %20fires%20have%20been%20reported.	dugimodo (138)
1475723	2021-03-24 05:27:00	Tesla claims their cars are about 10 times less likely to catch fire than a petrol car, I suspect those numbers are BS as well but I'm not seeing much definitive proof either way. There have been more petrol car fires than EV. But of course, there are more petrol cars than EV as yet. There is this article: www.rnz.co.nz	piroska (17583)
1475724	2021-03-24 05:34:00	Remember this: en.wikipedia.org	zqwerty (97)
1475725	2021-03-24 06:46:00	I had a fire in my 1959 Morris Oxford Series III and it didnt make PC World forum. My flatmate threw a cig out the window and it must have flown back in the passengers window. We stopped at the Okaramio pub after work as always and later on someone said your car is smoking like you believe anyone in a pub saying that!. But it was, the rear seat was smoldering had to throw a jug of piss on it.	prefect (6291)
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