• vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    17 hours ago

    no, it wouldn’t. Because the car is not filled with aerosolized explodey-gas, but just flammable liquid contained in a robust tank. it is not explosive. It can catch fire, but not simply from impact. You’d need a hole in the tank lower than the current fuel level and an external ignition source. Even if you shoot the gas tank directly, it will not explode. It is physically impossible for it to explode.

    Puncture one of an electric car’s cells, and it sets off a chain reaction. The whole car very quickly goes up in flames.

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      11 hours ago

      “Robust”? Clearly you’ve never driven an itlian made car!

      Alphas tanks are literally made out of plastic. You can poke them with a basic screwdriver.

      Yeah it won’t go boom, but point being, they’re not robust and go in flames fairly often too…

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      13 hours ago

      A hit car engine is an external ignition source, and gas cars go up in flames daily in the us

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        12 hours ago

        But if the media doesn’t report it, lemmings don’t know it exists.