Remember that non electric cars are still dangerous too. I saw a gas car wreck today on the side of the interstate that had 2 firetrucks, an ambulance and about 3 cop cars. That isn't going to make the same level of national attention as this is.
News sites like to over dramatize green energy dangers and will tell you that birds running Into windmills is a massive issue and ignore that statistically fossil fuels cause ~50x more bird deaths per unit of energy than windmills (iirc).
Yes, the cybertruck sucks and probably should be banned, but it's still green energy and you can't let it distract you from the benefits of all electric vehicles.
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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"?
No, you don't need to douse it in a substance it readily reacts with... I don't know where this farce comes from, but it doesn't corport wirth reality unless the point is to literally burn the fire out by fueling it. Like putting a bellows on a coal fire...
It is common practice to submerge EVs in water for several days in Germany, too. Remember that there is no elemental lithium (which would react with water) in batteries. As with every fire, the goal is to cool down the battery, so the fire doesn’t have enough energy to burn further. Unfortunately I only found German sources to back this up.