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Re:Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than e... by 3cats-in-a-coat on Saturday November 18, 2023 @09:36AM (#38320082)
Ah yes. Nothing better than waking up in the morning and smelling lead, nickel and cobalt from a li-ion battery that caught fire somewhere in your neighborhood. Or in your garage.
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Re:Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than e... by stavros on Saturday November 18, 2023 @09:38AM (#38320108)
About the same as smelling burning tyres and diesel from a car whose tank caught fire.
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Re:Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than e... by 3cats-in-a-coat on Saturday November 18, 2023 @11:19AM (#38321143)
Not the same at all. First, a gas car doesn't simply catch fire while sitting in a dense parking lot. That's the most likely place for an EV to catch fire, as it's charging.

Second, when a gas car catches fire, it's almost always after a car incident. Firefighters arrive, and put the fire out easily.

Do you know what firefighters do when an EV catches fire? Nothing can stop this fire. Literally nothing. So firefighters have to evacuate everyone at least half a mile in radius. Then let it burn down. Which may take a full day. Or more. Read the protocols.

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Re:Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than e... by vel0city on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:38PM (#38324109)
> First, a gas car doesn't simply catch fire while sitting in a dense parking lot.

What an absolute joker.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-recalls-defects/hyu...

https://apnews.com/article/chevy-silverado-recall-truck-fire...

https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/jeep-cherokee-recall-fi...

https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/recall-chrysler-pacific...

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-recalls-defects/vol...

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/11/25/GM-agrees-to-recall-...

I could go on and on and on and on and on and on and on...

I've owned multiple cars which have had multiple recalls for catching fire while parked. I've had multiple neighbors have house fires from parked ICE vehicles. You're massively wrong for thinking ICE vehicles don't catch fire while parked.

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Re:Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than e... by vel0city on Saturday November 18, 2023 @11:01AM (#38320944)
I've had several neighbors houses burn down from ICE vehicles catching fire in their garage in my life. Never an EV though.
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