Chinese engineers have proposed shooting off electric car batteries that catch fire
gagadget.com
China has shown a prototype of a system for emergency firing of an electric car battery in case of fire threat. It looks dubious and creepy.
  • Funwayguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Interesting idea, horrible execution.

    If they really wanted to go down this route, a better idea might be to push the battery out straight down and have a fireblanket deploy itself like an airbag to act as a flame shield and buy time.

    Fire fighters are then free to move the vehicle from the fire to better assess and respond based on the circumstances.

    • Nighed@feddit.ukEnglish
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      9 days ago

      The bottom is going to be armoured to an extent against bottoming out the car etc, so harder to do that (and have it be water/salt proof) through the floor I guess?

      Having your battery eject itself because of a sensor failure while driving at 70mph would be exciting to everyone involved though!