Are EVs too dangerous?

[apathy]

I'm getting increasingly worried about the potential for these new electric cars to just blow up in our faces. Their batteries don't need much of a shock to undergo thermal runaway.

A lithium battery plant in South Korea blew up recently, killing 33 workers. The fire spread so fast.

You're driving your safe diesel car on a busy road, and BANG an EV detonates in front of you, you have little to no time to escape or abandon your car, while taking care not to touch anything or breath in the fumes as hydrofluoric acid (nasty!) in liquid or gaseous form may be created.

EVs are ticking timebombs and should be illegal.

[potato]

much lower chance than just getting hit by a car so no?

[Thadeus]

These batteries burst into flames the moment their insides are exposed to air. A tiny crack can make them ignite. They're the same kind of batteries that exist in your phone, but much larger. People had their phones burst into flames because they sat down in a position that kinda bent the phone and the battery consequently.

[Stormer]

Fuel tanks also explode

[Thadeus]

Originally posted by Stormer:

Fuel tanks also explode

Nope. It takes significantly more effort to make a fuel tank explode than it takes to make an EV car battery explode. Real life is not like the movies, where a car explodes as soon as it hits a wall.

[Xero_Daxter]

Wait wait wait…. a battery can blow up? Like a big kaboom???

[ZZZZZ]

yes they should be outlawed, same as the cars that use gas

[Thadeus]

Originally posted by Xero_Daxter:

Wait wait wait…. a battery can blow up? Like a big kaboom???

No, not like that. It just bursts into flames. Like when you light a match.

[xDDD]

Yeah EV battery fires are really really bad and I wouldn't trust an EV to part in my garage.
Plus there are instances of them catching on fire and then the DOORS DON'T OPEN so you get trapped in the car and burned to death. Granted the instance I heard of was in China, but still.

[Sir Seanicus, Esq.]

EVs are involved in the child slave labor for cobalt.

[Stormer]

Originally posted by Thadeus:

Originally posted by Stormer:

Fuel tanks also explode

Nope. It takes significantly more effort to make a fuel tank explode than it takes to make an EV car battery explode. Real life is not like the movies, where a car explodes as soon as it hits a wall.

Im aware fire has to reach the tank but they still do it

[vkobe]

Originally posted by apathy:

I'm getting increasingly worried about the potential for these new electric cars to just blow up in our faces. Their batteries don't need much of a shock to undergo thermal runaway.

A lithium battery plant in South Korea blew up recently, killing 33 workers. The fire spread so fast.

You're driving your safe diesel car on a busy road, and BANG an EV detonates in front of you, you have little to no time to escape or abandon your car, while taking care not to touch anything or breath in the fumes as hydrofluoric acid (nasty!) in liquid or gaseous form may be created.

EVs are ticking timebombs and should be illegal.

depend lithium battery

lithium fire is hard to extinguish

but lithium is solid not liquid, so you avoid leak situation, so if lithium avoid water, wet, it should be fine

[Kobs]

I always find it funny that no one talks about the cost of changing a car battery in the ads as if that stupid battery will last for ever.
It will cost you between 6 and 20,000 dollars at the end of it's 6 to 8 year's life to change it, can you imagine having to spend that much cash to be able to use your car again after 8 years it's practically the cost of a new engine for a gas car

[Hobbit XIII]

Worried about explosions.

Get regulated then.

Enforce the Regulation.

Problem solved.

[Majestic Turkey]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CGcjzIcvak

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

diesel doesnt explode, it just burns slowly.
gas can explode but safer than lithium battery
lead acid battery would just shock you or possibly spray some acid