Reply To: Myths and fears behind resistance to EV charging

nixjet wrote:

You virtually cannot put out lithium battery fires … In my view, the fire risks for almost all buildings are too great and such infrastructure belongs outside, on street level.

How about barbecue gas cannisters on balconies? A much wider spread and proven risk. Or smokers on balconies – the cause of the two major cladding fires in Melbourne in recent years?

If you think those are false equivalences, have a look at this recent article which acknowledges that lithium battery fires are harder to extinguish but points out that fully electric EVs have only a 0.03% chance of catching fire while petrol or diesel vehicles are 50 times (1.5%) more likely to burst into flames, and hybrids more than twice that (presumably partly due to having both kinds of fuel and propulsion on board).

If you are genuinely concerned about EV fires, look at banning cars with older and riskier battery types, rather than signing up to the petrolhead agenda by supporting their noisy, smelly, polluting, planet-killing propaganda. The future is coming.  You might need to use some nifty footwork to avoid being run over.

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