Tuesday, January 28, 2025

One of the biggest cleanup challenges from the Southern California fires is lithium-ion batteries, which can explode after damage or exposure to heat.

So, in some ways there isn't a time limitation to when a lithium Ion Battery can explode or catch fire once it is damaged or catches fire the first time.

So, even if you manage to get the thing out (the fire out) 

 without being poisoned by the poisonous gases that it gives off while combusting you have really no certainty if or when it will catch fire or explode at a later date.

For this reason you have to classify damaged Lithium Ion Batteries of the kind found in Teslas or other EVs as flammable at any moment or even as potential bombs to protect people enough so they don't die or get injured around damaged or partially combusted Batteries (whether one battery or many). 

Most EVs have the entire Floor space that people have their feet on inside of an EV for around 8 inches or so below their feet which are these Lithium Ion Batteries. So, that even if they don't explode or kill people or catch fire still have to all be replaced within around 7 years on all EVs like Clockwork.

This is one of many reasons why I personally am not interested in having a hybrid or fully Electric Vehicle.

I think there are too many problems still and that this technology is still in a development stage not like Gasoline and Diesel Engines that have been perfected for about 140 years so far since the late 1800s.

I think batteries have to be designed that don't explode or catch fire (at the very least) before I might be interested in owning a fully electric vehicle or a hybrid of any kind.

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