The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire! As is the rest of the lithium battery plant

[Bill]

https://www.westernjournal.com/highw...an-watch-burn/

Highway Closed as 3-Alarm Blaze Erupts at Lithium Battery Plant - Fire Officials Can Only Watch it Burn
By Jack Davis June 26, 2023 at 6:29am

In the past year, lithium-ion battery fires in electric vehicles have led to blazing wrecks along highways that take firefighters hours to extinguish and buildings that go up like a torch from fires that cannot be swiftly brought under control.

And now, a plant that uses lithium to make components for batteries for electric vehicles has gone up in flames.

A plant belonging to the Livent Corp. was on fire early Monday in the North Carolina town of Bessemer City, according to WCNC-TV in Charlotte.

The company said there were no reports of injuries and that all employees were accounted for.

The fire was declared a three-alarm blaze. Images from the scene showed firefighters not attempting to battle the massive flames, letting the fire burn itself out.

[DJ_Critterus]

Soooo.... let's let Commiefornia mandate that all vehicle sales are electric in the not so distant future forcing automakers to comply, ****ing the rest of us, and then this becomes more common place. Good job you asshole libs

[Bill]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

Soooo.... let's let Commiefornia mandate that all vehicle sales are electric in the not so distant future forcing automakers to comply, ****ing the rest of us, and then this becomes more common place. Good job you asshole libs

This is a general interest Off Topic. Let's not make this political, OK? I don't want to get blamed again.

[Jughead]

Green energy

[TheRealBadger]

Overall, EVs are about 0.3 percent likely to ignite, versus a 1.05 percent likelihood for gas cars, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the National Transportation Safety Board compiled by Auto Insurance EZ last year.Feb 2, 2023

Boston Globe

[6spdC6]

Originally Posted by Jughead

Green energyy

AKA- oxymoron!

[MadInNc]

2 hrs south of Yaddy, close to SC border.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by MadInNc

2 hrs south of Yaddy, close to SC border.

Sign of the upcoming Yadpocolypse?

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by bill_daniels

Sign of the upcoming Yadpocolypse?

I better get my driveway rocks set in place

[GTOguy]

Originally Posted by MadInNc

2 hrs south of Yaddy, close to SC border.

Yaddie is a fargin' Yankee. smh lol (shrug)

[Loco Vette]

Originally Posted by bill_daniels

https://www.westernjournal.com/highw...an-watch-burn/

Let's see if this gets as much overhyped hysterical media coverage as the East Palestine derailment. I ain't holding my breath.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Loco Vette

Let's see if this gets as much overhyped hysterical media coverage as the East Palestine derailment. I ain't holding my breath.

The asphalt and sulfur train dumping into the Yellowstone River in Montana is getting some airplay.

[jw38]

As this thread is really about EVs, it should be moved to Other Cars. Oh wait......

[Mike Mercury]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

Soooo.... let's let Commiefornia mandate that all vehicle sales are electric in the not so distant future forcing automakers to comply, ****ing the rest of us, and then this becomes more common place. Good job you asshole libs

and then...

over time when the cars battery needs replaced, the cost is more than the vehicle is worth.

[theandies]

Originally Posted by bill_daniels

This is a general interest Off Topic. Let's not make this political, OK? I don't want to get blamed again.

BUT THIS IS POLITICAL AND NOTHING BUT POLITICAL. Politician are forcing us to buy stuff most don't want and by force they are doing everything the possibly can to ban ICE and fossil fuels because THEY say the Earth is warming.

I ask:
What temperature should the Earth be?

Not a swinging dick on this planet can answer that because the Earth has been heating and cooling for billions of years. Who does MAN think he is telling everyone what temperature Earth should be. It's a man made construct. The dumbasscrats have just found a way to dup millions of idiots into thinking the world is going to end if we don't stop using fossil fuels. It's all about control and the dumbasscrats don't see it because they are too stupid to realize what's going on until it's too late.

THIS IS 100% POLITICAL.

[theandies]

Originally Posted by TheRealBadger

Overall, EVs are about 0.3 percent likely to ignite, versus a 1.05 percent likelihood for gas cars, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the National Transportation Safety Board compiled by Auto Insurance EZ last year.Feb 2, 2023

Boston Globe

I'm from a government agency and I'm here to help.

I don't believe anything that comes out from any government agency.

[JRD77VET]

Originally Posted by theandies

I'm from a government agency and I'm here to help.

I don't believe anything that comes out from any government agency.

Oh it's easy to tell when they lie. Their mouth moves.

[VatorMan]

Originally Posted by TheRealBadger

Overall, EVs are about 0.3 percent likely to ignite, versus a 1.05 percent likelihood for gas cars, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the National Transportation Safety Board compiled by Auto Insurance EZ last year.Feb 2, 2023

Boston Globe

BUT….when they DO catch on fire, no way to put it out. At least with a gas fire-CO2/PKP and some foam. Lithium-drag it out to the middle of nowhere and let it go.

[Torqaholic]

Originally Posted by VatorMan

BUT….when they DO catch on fire, no way to put it out. At least with a gas fire-CO2/PKP and some foam. Lithium-drag it out to the middle of nowhere and let it go.

Yup, and with gasoline the occupants of the car can usually put out the fire. Forget about that with electrics, they're cinders.

experimental hybrid car explosion leaves researcher dead student injured

[MTPZ06]

EV crew coming in hot.