This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The "they catch fire" argument is fucking bonkers anyway.
If there's one thing petrol cars are famous for, it's being filled with flammable liquids that can and do leak everywhere and combust upon collision.
You can ignore them. Same with all the disingenuous cunts who complain about wind turbines "spoiling the view" who ignore the coal and gas power stations that have littered the skyline for over a century.
You can put a petrol fire out in less than a few days though. Petrol doesn't magically catch fire upon seeing oxygen either.
Ah, Lemmy. You never disappoint with sharing hilariously inaccurate information in comments!
This from the people that gave us fireworks... traditions disappear so fast...
God forbid someone does a humor
Aren't EVs already safer than gas cars?
I think the point is (I haven’t read the article) that once an EV is caught on fire, it’s extremely hard to extinguish it, because the battery tends to re-ignite afterwards.
I heard from a firefighter in my hometown (haven’t verified if true or not), the only way to extinguish it was to immerge the car.
But you are right, EVs are less likely to start burning in the first place compared to ICE cars.
the breakthrough that makes EVs safer than ICE cars
Did Toyota write this? EVs already are much safer than ICEs, the headline reads like it's trying to gaslight people into thinking otherwise.
Except ones with no handles. You're supposed to burn alive in these.
Which has nothing to do with the drive train.
Except the fact that batteries burn extremely rapidly. In case of fire you have seconds to open the door and help the driver/passaners escape out of the vehicle
Except their weight which leads to insane amounts of energy transfer and also none of the intrastructure, like guardrails, is built to handle that much weight so low down.
The way to safer is to reduce the amount of cars.
The way to safer is to reduce the amount of cars.
Hersey! Blasphemy! Unamerican!
First time I ever heard about guardrails having issues with EVs. Do you have a source for that?
Also the comment was about the fire risk, which the article was about.
Something we'll never see in the US because the US hates real competition.
Don't worry, you can see Teslas catching fire.
Maybe a bit irrelevant but why is the article calling it “China’s battery“? I feel like if the researchers were from any other countries academy of science, say France, the title would have simply been something like “scientists discover new ways for fireproof battery”. Maybe it’d say French scientists or so, but not simply “France’s battery”?
because China doing anything is a geopolitical issue somehow. also, these things are effectively banned in the United States via tariffs
