I used to be a vol firefighter. If it’s a heavy EV vs a regular weight car the EV will cause more damage and increase the risk of death/entrapment compared to normal crashes. You can’t cut open elecric cars like normal ones to rescue people or you’ll get electrocuted so that slows everything down.
There are response guides tesla puts out on their site to help us prepare for what a scene involving a tesla would entail. If I remember right like 8,000 gallons of water to keep the battery stable. Our tanker holds 2k. How many highways have hydrants? None that I can think of.
So we’re talking about deadlier crashes while also having to arrange water resources like we would for a structure fire. For any significant crash involving EVs
I want to like electric vehicles but it seems like all it’s going to do is make firefighters’ lives hell for the next few decades
Wow the water thing seems nuts. I just had a look at one of the guides. Do not submerge, but use large amounts of water to cool the battery compartment.
There are response guides tesla puts out on their site to help us prepare for what a scene involving a tesla would entail. If I remember right like 8,000 gallons of water to keep the battery stable.
Keep in mind they make those numbers based off liability, not science. Those guides are meant to legally cover Tesla’s ass, not provide actual useful information.
I used to be a vol firefighter. If it’s a heavy EV vs a regular weight car the EV will cause more damage and increase the risk of death/entrapment compared to normal crashes. You can’t cut open elecric cars like normal ones to rescue people or you’ll get electrocuted so that slows everything down.
There are response guides tesla puts out on their site to help us prepare for what a scene involving a tesla would entail. If I remember right like 8,000 gallons of water to keep the battery stable. Our tanker holds 2k. How many highways have hydrants? None that I can think of.
So we’re talking about deadlier crashes while also having to arrange water resources like we would for a structure fire. For any significant crash involving EVs
I want to like electric vehicles but it seems like all it’s going to do is make firefighters’ lives hell for the next few decades
Wow the water thing seems nuts. I just had a look at one of the guides. Do not submerge, but use large amounts of water to cool the battery compartment.
Keep in mind they make those numbers based off liability, not science. Those guides are meant to legally cover Tesla’s ass, not provide actual useful information.
Oh yeah we know, and are curious about how they’ll shift over time when theory meets reality