Lithium, Environmental disaster9 Aug 2021 22:07
Post courtesy of a telegram group member.
Food for thought as an ex firefighter been to many fog pea soup motorway pile ups.
I am having issues understanding how you can legally manufacture a product without contingency procedure.
So there is no way of fighting lithium battery fires and waiting for them to die out is the only option? How is this even considered a viable option.
Let's take a major car accident involving multiple vehicles. Most of them being lithium powered. You could end up with a major motorway being shut for days, first for the fires to die out, then for more to make repairs on a road which has suffered extremely high temperatures strong enough to melt tarmac.
Makes absolutely no sense to me.
Also if you have one of these vehicle which suddenly burst into flames in your garage (which has happen), one not only does the bloody things blow up without needing to be using them but you cannot turn fire off so you end up with a residential fire which you can "control" but have to wait for it to extinguish itself.