Electric car explodes in a garage
An electric car, a Hyundai Kona, exploded and caught fire in a garage in Île Bizard on Friday, blowing out the garage door and roof. Nobody got hurt.
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Ephraim 10:50 on 2019-07-27 Permalink
Had the car not been electric, not a word would have been printed… 17 cars per hour go on fire in the US. I think the stats that Tesla quotes are that gasoline cars are 11x more likely to catch fire than a battery car (per km/mile travelled.)
The main differences…. battery fires can take a long time to start… most gasoline fires are pretty quick to ignite or spark. The second is that gasoline fires are faster to extinguish… it can take hours to get a battery down in temperature…. which is why they continue to douse the battery with water… to cool it.
But basically since electric cars are new… it’s newsworthy… gasoline fires are old news.
EmilyG 16:28 on 2019-07-27 Permalink
A friend of mine said that batteries in general are more likely to explode or malfunction when in a hot environment such as a car in a hot garage.
I don’t know much about batteries or electric-car technology, but just throwing it out there.
dwgs 07:52 on 2019-07-28 Permalink
Meh, it happens to the best of us, http://www.iheartradio.ca/energie/energie-montreal/nouvelles/insolite-la-batmobile-prend-feu-sur-l-autoroute-640-1.9535160
Ian 21:09 on 2019-07-30 Permalink
There’s actually been a rash of exploding Hyundai stories lately. The Santa Fe seems particularly prone to randomly blowing up.