This is how Korean firefighters extinguish EV fire

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• EV’s are new and exciting but the technology is not ready for the masses. The e-waste In years to come will be a major problem. It’s unsustainable.

  January 11, 2023 at 1:43 pm

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• That’s a weird kiddie pool

  January 11, 2023 at 4:37 pm

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• Do EV come with there own fire extinguisher? If not it should be mandatory. They need a special type right ?

  January 11, 2023 at 4:40 pm

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• Electrical fires from batteries are no joke…. The possibility of being on fire, exploded, and electrocuted at the same time are very real.

  January 11, 2023 at 4:45 pm

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• …I’m starting to wonder if EV manufacturers should build some small fire extinguisher system into EVs.

  I don’t think they ignite ALL the time, but when they do, the car is utterly destroyed. What if they had some kind of mini-extinguishers at four, evenly spaced out, sections on the bottom of the cabin? Even if it doesn’t fully put the fire out, maybe it’ll make it easier on firefighters.

  January 11, 2023 at 5:18 pm

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• Magnesium engine blocks were also very hard to extinguish.

  January 11, 2023 at 8:23 pm

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• Thats basically how all firefighters do it. You have to constantly cool them.

  January 11, 2023 at 10:56 pm

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• Yeah makes sense. Who was the guy on Top gear who wrecked the electric supercar and it burned for 4 days?

  4 days! that’s insane.

  January 11, 2023 at 11:35 pm

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• More and more fire departments here in Germany use a similar system, they have a large open-top container they fill with water and dump the (temporarily) extinguished wreck into. They look [like this](https://www.lfv-nds.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/E-AUTO-Contain-17.jpeg) (photo from an exercise with a random car). Some can open one side and have the car winched into it too.

  Problem: ALL THE WATER in that container is considered hazardous waste, so getting rid of it eventually is tricky and costly.

  Also, obviously, this means any minor fire means the whole car is a write-off since it all gets submerged in water for days.

  January 12, 2023 at 12:36 am

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• The source of this image is probably: https://youtu.be/p9PmpPJoR1E

  Cut & pasting the text into Google Translate, seems the driver hit center divider than collided with oncoming SUV, and the car caught fire. Driver was in critical condition, with burns to their legs. It took almost hour and a half to extinguish the fire.

  Full text of Google’s translation:

  > Another Tesla car fire accident happened.
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  > Last night (9th) around 10:25, a fire broke out in a Tesla electric car that was running on a national road in Sojeong-myeon, Sejong-si.
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  > A driver in his 30s suffered serious injuries, including second-degree burns to his leg, and was taken to the hospital.
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  > The dispatched firefighters immersed the entire vehicle in a portable fire extinguishing tank and completely put out the fire in about 1 hour and 20 minutes.
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  > In an accident where an electric car that hit the center divider collided again with an oncoming SUV and caught fire, fire authorities believe the fire started in the vehicle’s battery.

  January 12, 2023 at 1:28 am

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• Did some contract work at a few manufacturers that had various “Oh shit” anti-fire measures that were variously clever… this is also clever.

  January 12, 2023 at 3:25 am

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