After massive bus fire, Connecticut pulls electric fleet from service

[Caribbeans]

NewsTimes | Abigail Brone July 26, 2022

One day after officials touted the passage of the Connecticut Clean Air Act, including plans for thousands of electric vehicles to hit the road, one of the state-run electric buses caught on fire over the weekend.

The blaze engulfed a CTtransit bus in a Hamden parking lot Saturday morning, sending two workers and a firefighter to the hospital, officials said.

“Lithium ion battery fires are difficult to extinguish due to the thermal chemical process that produces great heat and continually reignites,” Hamden fire officials said.

Two transit workers were hospitalized as a precaution after being exposed to the smoke. A firefighter was also taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion, officials said...more
https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/After-massive-bus-fire-CT-pulls-electric-fleet-17329085.php

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Thick, black clouds of smoke rose early on Friday in the south-east of Paris - an electric bus of the Parisian transport company RATP had caught fire and was ablaze.

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Example of how fast a Li-Ion battery fire spreads in a Tesla

Mary McCormack's EV caught on fire on Santa Monica Blvd

[jimfields33]

1. A house burned down in my neighborhood last night

From a golf cart battery. Not exactly the same thing but I’m not sure I want an electric car plugged into my garage until they get these batteries sorted out.

[Caribbeans]

2. Glad it didn't spread to your home

I’m not sure I want an electric car plugged into my garage until they get these batteries sorted out.

Battery advocates (that usually own stock in a battery related company) will tell you there's no problem and that ICE vehicles catch fire all the time.

This is false, for one reason new ICE vehicles rarely catch fire, it's the used ones that are included in the stats.

They will say "Why Hydrogen- Batteries have already 'won' the race"

First, the "race" hasn't even begun yet and there is active suppression of news of these increasingly common battery fires. Also, why would the future of the planet be subject to some kind of "Winner Take All" thinking? It will take much more than just environmentally unfriendly batteries to green up the world. That's just a fact.

"Winner Take All" is yesterday. Choice and diversity is the future. Batteries, hydrogen and more should all be welcome.