Until one has a battery thermal runaway event.
Or an entire truckload of batteries catches fire.
StasheD is an engineer and firefighter, quite eye opening.
Or an entire truckload of batteries catches fire.
StasheD is an engineer and firefighter, quite eye opening.
https://archive.ph/VadwU : Tanker Truck Fire Collapses Bay Area Overpass
https://archive.ph/4INYw : I-95 Overpass Collapses in Philadelphia After a Tanker Fire
Lithium ion battery fires less so.
Surly you don’t mean to imply that a sufficiently large lithium ion battery fire couldn’t burn down a bridge?
They are driving liquid fuel tankers that can do that around regularly.
Also consider that as battery tech improves new chemistries lower the risk of fire even more. E.g. sodium batteries are very stable right now and solid state will improve that further. There's no way you can make petrol less flammable.
You're going to have to face facts, battery powered vehicles are safer than petrol powered one.
And safer, less-flammable kinds of battery are in development. Less-flammable kinds of gasoline are not.
Or is it comparing with the entire gasoline vehicle fleet?
My mistake.
I'm not buying it and you shouldn't be selling it.
Lithium batteries are pretty safe in practice.
Safe enough to not be allowed in checked baggage on commercial passenger aircraft.
Safe enough to kill e-bike riders, safe enough to kill people at home charging their e-bike / e-scooter / electric car.
Perfectly safe.
No trade offs, just safety.
And yet, people travel with one or often more than one battery devices as a matter of utterly unremarkable routine.