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One of the things I'm noisy about is mechanical door locks in BEVs. A thermal runaway event in an EV is equivalent to immediate arc welding temperatures where a gasoline fire burns a great deal cooler and unless the fuel tank gets super heated there is time to get out. In disasters like the Houston doctor tragedy...

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2021/05/11/friend-b...

...Having electric door locks that no longer work is catastrophic in these types of situations. A great deal more needs to be done on BEVs to create better fire walls and battery protection if they ever become mainstream transport.

I posted the link to the spectacular exploding Paris bus earlier. Here it is again.

https://insideevs.com/news/583324/paris-suspends-149-bollore...




I gotta say, electric door opening is one of the big reasons I'll never own a Tesla. In an emergency, you can't waste time trying to remember where to find and how to use the mechanical override.

As a side note, how many Tesla owners here train their passengers on how to get out in an emergency before giving them a ride?


Where gasoline and diesel are consumed at low or no pressure from a fuel tank, an EV is analogous to a compressor driven high pressure hydraulic line.

High pressure fires are very different to low pressure as this garbage truck hydraulic line fire demonstrates:

https://youtu.be/aj8-JlRqoWc

Trapped energy is in a hurry to get out. Damaged batteries contain immensely 'pressurized' amps that will find a way out until exhausted...




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