Except that these batteries can self ignite several times, as has been proven by actual accidents
Electric vehicle fires can take 3,000 gallons and 24 hours to extinguish
This is interesting
Fire fighters official guide
Irrelevant as far as e-car are concerned.
The lithium battery fires all concerned high density small cells like those used in e-bikes, laptops etc.
Tesla being the first to create a lithium batteried car unwisely used these in very large numbers too, 6,200 of them in their sports car, and suffered fires in consequence. Hence your two links are both from Tesla. But they learned their lesson and now do like all other makers.
E-cars use smaller numbers of large low density cells which by their nature are far safer since they aren't inclined to form the lithium crystals that cause the fire problem. They are far less stressed anyway, since they spend almost all their life working at a fraction of their potential.
As for the fire brigade, they are worse than ROSPA, constantly pumping out hysterical nonsense. The British fire brigades have never had to deal with any e-car traction battery fire in any of our over half a million e-cars.
Almost all the Tesla fires occurred in the USA and the only British involvement is that one of them in Los Angeles was being driven by a British TV film director. And anyway, even Tesla's few fires only equate to one every 205 million miles travelled by their cars
E-car fires, like the myth of range anxiety, are both only suffered in the minds of people who've never owned an e-car and know nothing about them.
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