These electric cars are getting more exciting
- Thread starter pittsburghracer
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They are pretty hot on the market from what I see.
I would say that's funny, but it's Big Daddy, so it's not.
Too bad I would have loved to see it run.
I think if they are going to race electric cars the batteries need to be easily removed and contained.
I think if they are going to race electric cars the batteries need to be easily removed and contained.
That will be pretty hard to do when the battery weighs more than u do. Unless it’s pinned in on a slide with quick disconnect cables. Kim
el5dart
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im sure burning lithium batteries are real nice to inhale
Electrical fires really stink.
33IMP
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Anybody else notice the hundred or so fire extinguishers that did nothing ?
Who has a hundred fire extinguishers? laying around?
Who has a hundred fire extinguishers? laying around?
el5dart
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yeah those extinguishers are definitely not rated for electrical fires. those batteries need an eject button or something
33IMP
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I heard somewhere that in Europe they don't even try to fight the electric car fire, they just try to keep it from burning anything else, and let the car fire burn itself out. Judging by those busses, it looks like the right idea.
At a age in the late 80s, early 90s that is incredible! Big Daddy has always been one of my heros.
Andy
We will get back to racing after a small cleanup and track repaving
mopar head
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Blown Hemi Gods say, Ha Ha
Exactly
They're not allowed in parking garages either because of that
I’m waiting for one to catch fire in one of our pittsburgh tunnels.
That would set the whole state on fire if it gets to the coal
Yall see how quickly that first bus went up? I don't think the fire department would have put it out had they been right on top of it.
Guys, when Lithium batteries catch fire it is a chemical fire not an electrical fire. The chemical reaction/reactions produce a lot of heat very rapidly. To my knowledge, a fire extinguisher capable of suppressing or stopping the Lithium fire/reactions has not yet been developed. Part of the problem is in the configuration of the battery cells. Once a short develops in the internal layers of the cell and the runaway reaction is going an outside extinguishing agent cannot make its way to the inner layers of the battery cell.
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