• mommykink@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Sounds like the best possible place to have a fire. Isn’t the only advice for putting out an EV battery fire “pour as much water as possible on it for several hours until it burns itself out”?

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      3 months ago

      Yes. Water doesn’t directly help it go out since the batteries are fine burning in water but if you carry away enough heat then you csn

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      3 months ago

      I read on the news our local fire department had to keep one car in a special water reservoir for several days, because the fire kept reigniting.