Luton airport...

Bug One said:
Indeed. But, the fire doesn't spread the same way it does when a diesel fuel tank melts.
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The end result would probably be very similar if left to run for say 24 hours.
Realistically however it wouldn't be.

ICE is more likely to get out of control if not dealt with really really quickly.
Once one goes up as soon as that cars fuel tank is breached then with how closely cars are parked its almost guaranteed to take another couple out within minutes. Rinse repeat.
 
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
The end result would probably be very similar if left to run for say 24 hours.
Realistically however it wouldn't be.

ICE is more likely to get out of control if not dealt with really really quickly.
Once one goes up as soon as that cars fuel tank is breached then with how closely cars are parked it’s almost guaranteed to take another couple out within minutes. Rinse repeat.
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Have you seen ev fires? They’re way harder to deal with and spread quicker than ICE. Once battery is on fire you’re done. It’s intense
 
StriderX said:
Just 20 years of consultancies to get a new one.
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Give it to the Gov to do, they'll spend £1b on consultants for the next few years, then start building a 15 storey car park over the next 12 years, then stop at the third floor citing that the costs are spiralling out of control and just drop the mic and run.
 
For anyone still clinging onto hope that it was an EV
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grudas said:
Have you seen ev fires? They’re way harder to deal with and spread quicker than ICE. Once battery is on fire you’re done. It’s intense
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Yes.

The point is they take WAY longer to get to that point typically.

Especially if the car itself is not the cause.

Have YOU seen how 45 litres of petrol covers a massive area and the vapour that is the main issue goes up?
 
G-Man said:
Bets on it being blamed on an EV battery fire.
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No bets, it seems it is, early videos on twtter showed what looked like a model X/Y on fire lol.

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Late to the party, I had things to do :mad:

This sort of thing will be common over the years and hopefully drive the advancement of solid state batteries which cannot catch fire or explode. 2027 is the projected mass production for the first few EVs using them. I can foresee many EVs being banned at certain places after a few more fires break out, unless they have solid state cells...
 
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mrk said:
No bets, it seems it is, early videos on twtter showed what looked like a model X/Y on fire lol.

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Late to the party, I had things to do :mad:

This sort of thing will be common over the years and hopefully drive the advancement of solid state batteries which cannot catch fire or explode. 2027 is the projected mass production for the first few EVs using them. I can foresee many EVs being banned at certain places after a few more fires break out, unless they have solid state cells...
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Correction. This will be common over the years as more crappy old diesel cars with plastic fuel tanks get old, leak fuel everywhere and cause massive fires.

Maybe we should be banning them from public places.
 
Bug One said:
Correction. This will be common over the years as more crappy old diesel cars with plastic fuel tanks get old, leak fuel everywhere and cause massive fires.

Maybe we should be banning them from public places.
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Diesel cars have been around since the dawn of time, how many diesel car fires have been recorded to date each year vs the EV fires you see popping up on videos every other month nowadays?

In fact, there are statistics....

Looking at the London Fire Brigade data, that would suggest an incident rate of 0.04% for petrol and diesel car fires, while the rate for plug-in vehicle is more than double at 0.1%. So far this year, there have been 1,021 petrol and diesel fires and 27 EV fires in the capital.
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www.fleetnews.co.uk

Vehicle fire data suggests higher incident rate for EVs

Production process problems have been blamed for recalls by Ford and BMW affecting more than 46,000 cars, including almost 5,000 in the UK.
www.fleetnews.co.uk www.fleetnews.co.uk

Over to you :p

Edit* Yeah that's from 2020, but still.
 
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mrk said:
Diesel cars have been around since the dawn of time, how many diesel car fires have been recorded to date each year vs the EV fires you see popping up on videos every other month nowadays?

In fact, there are statistics....


www.fleetnews.co.uk

Vehicle fire data suggests higher incident rate for EVs

Production process problems have been blamed for recalls by Ford and BMW affecting more than 46,000 cars, including almost 5,000 in the UK.
www.fleetnews.co.uk www.fleetnews.co.uk

Over to you :p
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The former number is bigger than the latter number, gottem.

;)
 
Havana_UK said:
The fire is controlled and extinguished now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-67075159

That very fact suggests it's NOT an electric vehicle at the heart of it...they're almost impossible to extinguish once alight.
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So you're saying there must have been no electric vehicles which subsequently caught fire either?! That seems unlikely....


Jokester said:
Fire Brigade are saying there was a lot of EVs involved.
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But... I hear EV fires are almost impossible to put out. Even for people trained to extinguish fire for a living.
 
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