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EV Battery Fires Do Not Bode Well for Projected Sales

8 September 2021
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EV Battery Fires Do Not Bode Well for Projected Sales

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Latest details about EV battery fires doesn’t bode properly for California Governor Newsom’s executive order to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035.

The Bolt, the one EV that GM is selling in North America, has been “tied to not less than 9 fires” since early 2020, and Hyundai’s autos had been involved in about 15 fires. In the meantime, three Tesla’s have burst into flames over the earlier 4 months. To date, 27 EV battery fires and nonetheless counting.

Firefighters could have 30,000 to 40,000 gallons of water to contain a Tesla electric vehicle (EV) blaze than they may normally use for a mainstream gas-powered automotive that was on fireplace.

Common Motors launched in August 2021 that they’d been recalling 73,000 Chevrolet Bolt EV’s together with the 70,000 Bolts that had been made between 2017 and 2019. Fixing all 143,000 of the Bolts being recalled for fireplace risk to alternate new battery modules could, as Morningstar analyst David Whiston told the Detroit Free Press, cost GM some $1.8 billion.

One different “hit” on these potential EV product sales projections is the German trend of banning EV’s from parking underground due to potential EV battery fires.

In 2020, a California couple  awoke to a blaring automotive alarm and a burning residence. The blaze had started in certainly one of many two Tesla S autos of their storage and unfold to the alternative.

The perpetrator in virtually all EV fireplace situations is the lithium-ion batteries that vitality them, and which burn with extraordinary ferocity. Including to the fireplace and heat hazard posed by these events is the acute toxic fluoride gasoline emissions generated. In protecting with one study, these fumes may in some circumstances be an even bigger menace, significantly in confined environments the place individuals are present.

Since lithium-ion fires are a chemical response they can only be cooled not extinguished. They end up burning for a lot of days in some situations. In Germany, harm to a parking development was intensive. So, for this German parking development, it has chosen to ban all electrified vehicles from parking underground. That options hybrids, PHEV, and EVs, whether or not or not they embrace lithium-ion or nickel-metal hydride batteries.

Many of the California EV’s are presently owned by individuals with bigger incomes than that of the working poor. These wealthier householders have bigger entry to private garages of their homes to price their EV’s, or entry to charging stations in new flats which have underground parking. Warning to the wind is that parking in confined areas of garages and underground parking may not be among the finest place to park EV’s.

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Ron Stein is an engineer who, drawing upon 25 years of endeavor administration and enterprise enchancment experience, launched PTS Advance in 1995. He’s an author, engineer, and energy skilled who writes incessantly on issues with energy and economics.

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