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Dorchester minivan no longer driveable
By adamg on Sat, 08/01/2015 - 4:05pm
Sara Meinke captured a flaming minivan on Columbia Road at Dorchester Avenue shortly before 4 p.m.
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Explosions within inches
Here's a good rationale for the electric car right here.
They don't explode into flame as often as regular cars. Tesla's have never done so. Hundreds of gas cars go up every day.
My friend puts it like so: " I'd rather drive a car powered by the sun than have thousands of explosions per second ....NEAR MY CROTCH. "
Is this thing on?
ahem. . . "Near My Crotch"
Would You Put A Laptop On Your Lap?
Batteries are not all sunshine and rainbows. Battery overheating, bulging from such, and even fires, are quite common.
Bulging from such, indeed.
Bulging from such, indeed.
Fires thereupon, check.
Sunshine and rainbows, absolutely.
Now lets get back to talking about batteries...
Quit the scaries,
Quit the scaries,
Its not attractive.
It just plain doesn't happen to cars.
Laptops are irrelevant, its a totally different branch of the technology.
Show me your statistics.
Minivans priced like Teslas
would not go up in flames so much either. Planes, race cars, and expensive exotic cars will use aviation grade fuel lines less likely to leak than conventional cars where cost is more of a factor. For high-end and race vehicles, good maintenance is often the difference. Cracked and aging hoses are replaced before they fail.
Lithium Ion batteries have a high fire potential and have caused laptops to burn up. Perhaps you've never had the science class demonstration of dropping a small piece of lithium in a beaker of water and seeing it catch fire?