Like I said. This is like Liverpool. That wasn’t an EV. EVs are still much less likely to just catch fire regardless.
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Who’s to say the car was just sat parked at the time it caught fire?
While it’s a car park, cars do move in and out very regularly.
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It Luton so probably more vauxhalls about.
They were the ones that sprang to mind as just bursting into flames from the reports from the other year.
Tended to happen on peoples drives.
The chain reaction will almost certainly be ICE though.
They were the ones that sprang to mind as just bursting into flames from the reports from the other year.
Tended to happen on peoples drives.
The chain reaction will almost certainly be ICE though.
Source?
Not confirmed but eyewitness reports
Thousands of Luton passengers hit by chaos after blaze destroys 1,200 cars
More than 15 fire crews tackled the blaze in Luton Airport's multi-storey carpark, as eyewitnesses described "scary scenes" with up to 1,200 vehicles thought to be damaged
www.mirror.co.uk
'SUV Range Rover exploded' and 'caused chain reaction'
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Actually completely the opposite way around. At least 20x less likely to catch fire than an ICE vehicle. Perhaps we need to space the ICE vehicles out more. The fuel leaks out when the fuel tank melts and sets the cars around them on fire and the ones on the deck below. It also heats the structure of the building up and causes it to collapse just like it did in Liverpool which destroyed nearly 1400 cars. Looks like the same has happened here with 1200 cars.
No. It's common sense.
So far I've seen two theories on twitter
EV's and "Muslims"
Muslamic EVs?
Completely the opposite way around? What fuel does an EV supply that combusts if the car next to it catches fire?
I landed at about 8.30 there last night. I'd parked in the mid stay (thankfully!) and as I was walking back to my car through the tunnel at around 8.50 the first fire engines came through. Four in rapid succession followed by a couple of police cars, all in the time it took me to walk from one end of the tunnel to the other. Clearly something was amiss, but looking back from where I was (I couldn't see the roof of the multistorey) I couldn't tell what it was.
Glad I didn't park in the short stay (I nearly did!) and glad I got ouf of there before the full chaos took hold!!!
Glad I didn't park in the short stay (I nearly did!) and glad I got ouf of there before the full chaos took hold!!!
Not one that pours all over the ground and gets into the structure of the building and decks below. https://www.newcivilengineer.com/archive/liverpool-car-park-fire-a-perfect-storm-02-02-2018/
Yes that was my point. ICE provides the fuel for the fire. So I'm not sure why you are suggesting it is "completely the opposite way around".
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