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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Interesting....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-i...SH-Final2017-1
From an NHTSA study.
This is from the Wikipedia entry, that I'm pretty sure should have a giant "citation needed" next to it...
"Would cause" is a pretty strong statement. Sure, a trailer hitch on a highway or piece of metal COULD cause a fire in a gasoline vehicle, if it hit in the spot of the gas tank, and punctured it, and the leak was exposed to a spark. But I suspect electric vehicles are more likely to catch fire when exposed to a trauma of that sort, if only becuase most of them have the entire floor made of battery. Anyway, minor Wikipedia annoyance. It is interesting that NHSTA thinks the risks are similar. |
Not really. It's floor it's late up of thousands (or hundreds depending on which EV you're discussing) of individual batteries. It isn't one big pile of combustible material. The majority of a battery pack is metal housing. It's not likely to catch fire simply from exposure in a crash