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> and note that in a firefight, police are taught to hide behind a car’s engine block. With EVs, that’s not an option.

Definitely not an issue I'd ever considered with EVs.

It's not that it's not even an option. Puncture that battery and the raging inferno makes the situation 1000x worse.

Reminder: there are several different EV battery chemistries that would all react differently under this scenario.

Here is an example of someone drilling into a solar LFP battery: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D8xNjz73p80

It's not really an issue with EV's - if this was a requirement I'm sure they could have modified parts of the car to provide protection.

The issue seems to be that the purchase was poorly thought out and didn't think about all the requirements of a police car.

Yeah, that's the point of me pulling it out: especially relevant to software folks when thinking about product requirements. "It's a car! I know what they need."

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