Lebanon Fire Department receives special fire extinguisher for electric vehicles
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- Опубліковано 22 лис 2022
- It may not look like much, but a little device could help first responders quickly put out car fires. Specifically electric car fires.
“Any car can burn at any time," said Duane Trautman, fire chief of the Lebanon Fire Department. "It’s just that electric vehicles are so difficult so this should solve our problems.”
Chief Trautman says the Battery Extinguishing System Technology (BEST) will make it easier to put out EV fires. According to Trautman, EV fires tend to be more difficult to extinguish, due to batteries burning small holes in the engine bay.
“It’s kind of like a building on fire and the fire is coming through a little hole in the roof," said Trautman. "You can’t get to it.”
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I hope they can get the price down over time. That's pretty steep.
Bro, Lithium fires don't get put out by water. Who designed this?🤣
But the salesman was his brother in law. $30K ?? Protect the exposures and let it burn.
Correct, but all the lithium in the battery is in nonmetallic forms.
Either way, the water stops the 'fire', if it can, by cooling the cells that haven't yet reached thermal runaway yet. It's actually a thermal runaway event where one ruptured cell heats surrounding cells until they begin to vent also. Cooling the cells with water is a way to stop the thermal runaway and contain the propagation so the already-ruptured cells burn themselves out and no new cells enter thermal runaway.
@@ElectricNed Fancy way of saying that you are trying to save part of a vehicle that is totalled. We will not be buying a $30K toy to do that. If we bought every new "toy" that came out every year there would be no space left on the apparatus. Guess maybe that is why alot of depts take an aerial device to a CO alarm.
@@elmerfudd7674 That's one way of looking at it. The EV is already long gone if any part of the pack enters thermal runaway, so it's about stopping the risk of reignition (can be days later) rather than saving the car.
@@ElectricNed Yes, preventing re-ignition is key. Water is not recommended, it is however cheap and has a low environmental impact.
do not buy EV. i bought tesla and it caught fire and my whole family died. i was lucky to escape