Nah, but the tactics are different and most states carbrained their way into allowing EVs on the road before making sure the fire department could deal with it properly.
There's subsidiary points here, like the ever present thing about them being banned from parking garages. Parking garages have fire surpression systems designed with ICE cars which may not work so well against EV cars because the necessary throughput of water just isn't there, which runs you the risk of turning your parking garage into a lithium fired blast furnace should an EV ever catch fire or get torched. You can pretty much see why in the weighing of cost to change the entire surpression system vs. like 10% revenue loss from EV cars latter end get's the short stick.
It's just the same as always I'd argue, a new type of car was rolled out on the streets too early because it has the promise of saving the car and now societally we get to scramble around this bullshit, again, with the added benefit of EV cars enthusiasts seeing some sort of wide spread conspiracy against their climate saving miracle machine
Firemen don't really have a way to deal with EV fires at the moment, the way that it is dealt with is pulling the car out of the parking garage and letting it burn.
A second thing that makes this problem worse is that property owners have a terrible habit of putting charging stations at the back of parking garages, since they don't want people to park in those spots without charging, meaning that pulling out the car is often impossible.
It'll be a rocky road to find some way to deal with this honestly. Opponents to EVs don't care to solve it and would rather ban them, proponents for EV cars don't want to realize there is actual problems with EV cars that just aren't solved yet.
Nah, but the tactics are different and most states carbrained their way into allowing EVs on the road before making sure the fire department could deal with it properly.
There's subsidiary points here, like the ever present thing about them being banned from parking garages. Parking garages have fire surpression systems designed with ICE cars which may not work so well against EV cars because the necessary throughput of water just isn't there, which runs you the risk of turning your parking garage into a lithium fired blast furnace should an EV ever catch fire or get torched. You can pretty much see why in the weighing of cost to change the entire surpression system vs. like 10% revenue loss from EV cars latter end get's the short stick.
It's just the same as always I'd argue, a new type of car was rolled out on the streets too early because it has the promise of saving the car and now societally we get to scramble around this bullshit, again, with the added benefit of EV cars enthusiasts seeing some sort of wide spread conspiracy against their climate saving miracle machine
Firemen don't really have a way to deal with EV fires at the moment, the way that it is dealt with is pulling the car out of the parking garage and letting it burn.
A second thing that makes this problem worse is that property owners have a terrible habit of putting charging stations at the back of parking garages, since they don't want people to park in those spots without charging, meaning that pulling out the car is often impossible.
It'll be a rocky road to find some way to deal with this honestly. Opponents to EVs don't care to solve it and would rather ban them, proponents for EV cars don't want to realize there is actual problems with EV cars that just aren't solved yet.