Just a day before EIKE reported on burning e-vehicles in China, the electric vehicle curse struck in Hanover, Germany.
See video here.
A fire at a bus depot in Hanover caused millions of euros in damage. According to fire fighters, the fire broke out on Saturday afternoon at the Üstra transport company where electric buses were parked,
According to Üstra spokesman Udo Iwannek, the fire caused damage running in the millions. Five e-buses, two hybrids and two combustion engines were destroyed, as were also the building and the charging station.
According to the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE), Hanover’s administration wants to run only e-buses in the city center area by 2023 and is purchasing 50 new vehicles in a bid to reduce the air pollution.
E-buses have shown to catch fire very rapidly. For example, four shuttle buses in Guangxi, China, exploded into flames last month:
Scary! Four shuttle buses on a campus of Guangxi, China, bust into flames on Saturday, as intense smoke roaring upward. Luckily, injuries were reported in the incident. pic.twitter.com/worqpY6GHj
— People's Daily, China (@PDChina) May 16, 2021
It’s really not a good idea to park e-buses close each other.
According to Jörn Künzle at Facebook:
Although fires can happen anywhere, they become critical and dangerous when e-vehicles are involved. An affected battery acts as a powerful fire accelerant due to a chain reaction and must also burn out completely, which can take as long as two days. In February, Kulmbach in Bavaria became the first German city to close underground garages to e-cars as a result.
Regardless of the many question marks behind e-mobility, the city of Hanover is pushing it by hook or by crook, and even more so under its Green mayor Belit Onay.
Numerous technical and practical problems associated with e-mobility are far from being satisfactorily solved. And anyone who is just a little bit familiar with the subject also knows that e-mobility is by no means as good as we are always led to believe, even from an environmental and “climate protection” point of view. And what’s particularly bad is that the left-wing green media are keeping quiet about the event.”
On the Kulmbach, Bavaria, e-vehicle fire, read here.
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One wonders whether large electric vehicles, like lorries, or even electric cars will be allowed through the Channel Tunnel or the Alpine tunnels, ever.
I check my notes for May15th event
Xinhua : There are 2000 electric mobility vehicle fires every year, how to stop this “time bomb”
Actually looking at the poor translation, I can see they are talking about electric mobility scooters that old pensioners use,
and the way people are not allowed to charge then in the apartment
So leave them dangerously charging outside etc.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2021-05/14/c_1127447340.htm
EV supporters would say
#1 When you have a lot of vehicles of course some catch fire
#2 Every country has had DISEL bus depot fires where fire started in one bus and spread to 10 , 20, 30 parked buses.
Can somebody tell me what happens to the lithium when a lithium battery burns. In other words what is the resultant lithium chemical compound.
The following link may help.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306261915014142
I thing the combustion products are Li2CO3, Li3N and Li02.
Meanwhile, in Canada, the City of Ottawa and the Federal Government earlier this week announced plans and funding to acquire 400 electric buses by 2026. Can’t wait to see how well they perform on a -25C January Morning.
Once a lithium ion battery begins to overheat, auto-immolation will occur. The battery will burn until it burns out completely. A dead short can do it, seems to be a problem with some evs.
Insurance companies are going to have some input in some way in the future if not now. Lloyd’s of London does pay out claims.
Stoichiometry is what takes place, fast.
Received two inches plus of rain for a 24 hour stretch, dry turned to wet in a hurry. Other places had more than four inches, 10 cm.
Drought conditions brought to a halt for now.
stoichiometry
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Stoichiometry
You’re welcome.
(Left yourself wide open for that 🙂
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I seem to remember back in the days of ‘sod’ and ‘SebH’ these things were predicted. So sad to see that the idiots in charge failed to correctly do a cost/benefit analysis. Failed to maximize cost/benefit gains that could have been made by using the latest fossil fuel vehicles — fossil fuels MUST be the best ’cause that preferred fuel of the elites and their apparatchiks — cars, jets, boats etc.
Oh yes, sod! I had forgotten about him.
BTW, strongly suggest that we stop using the term “fossil fuels.” That one is THEIR propaganda term, trying to put in “fossil” to imply that these energy sources are old and outdated and of-the-past-only. Suggest we don’t play into their hands, and instead call them “hydrocarbon energy sources” or something like that.
Don’t let THEM dictate the debate by adopting their rancid word-games…
(The same applies to “capitalism,” which is karl marx’s term; free enterprise, market economy, economic freedom are much better terms.)
Agreed. And we should go back to calling the people who try to have us use these old terms what they really are: old communists and socialists – and not democrats or “progressives”.
I just prefer to call those people “fascists” since… a) it’s truly what they are, and b) it gets around their stunt that somehow communism and socialism are basically cool but were poorly implemented by the wrong people. Fascism, socialism, communism, progressivism… all the same thing…