Is this the real "October Suprise"?

PaulaJedi said:
Here's what has happened here in Florida - Golf Carts are also electric. During Hurricane Helene, someone's garage was flooded with ocean water and the cart exploded and burned their house down. This can also happen with electric cars.

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Electric cars causing fires after Hurricane Helene flooding

The danger isn't over just because the storm has passed. St. Petersburg Fire Rescue urges residents with electric vehicles to refrain from charging or attempting to drive them.
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I think 10 Tesla cars have burned up due to flood damage to their batteries. Of course all electric cars are susceptible to this kind of fiery death. So if you live in a flood zone, maybe you should rule out an electric car as something to own. So far a Tesla has the best record. All the Chevy Bolt's were recalled for battery replacement. Apparently they would catch fire spontaneously and take the house with them due to a defective battery.
 
PaulaJedi said:
Here's what has happened here in Florida - Golf Carts are also electric. During Hurricane Helene, someone's garage was flooded with ocean water and the cart exploded and burned their house down. This can also happen with electric cars.
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And electric cars are short range vehicles. Golf carts even more so. It's not like they can easily evacuate a few hundred miles and then come back. This is especially true with mass power outages where they can't be easily recharged. They have to get left behind.

Lead acid batteries are somewhat resistant to this and just may outright die, but the charge controller boards and motor controller boards in the vehicle are not.

I'm willing to bet that most of the fires were caused by lithium batteries. They're extremely tempromental. If the flood receeds and the car is cleaned, there's still likely water trapped in the battery compartment/module. That's just asking for a disaster. When lithium batteries overheat and rupture, lithium reacts even more violently with water than air, and it forms a type of cascade failure that ruptures the lithium cells beside it, and then those rupture even more, and more and more... until there's a massive fireball that can't be put out. It has to burn itself out. By then, the heat is so intense, it's also sets surrounding objects on fire. It only takes one lithium cell out of a thousand to start this process.

For those who remember science videos, lithium acts very similar to metallic sodium. Remember when the guy in the lab coat takes a piece of metallic sodium out of an oil vial and drops it into water? It instantly reacts violently and burns. Lithium does the same thing.
 

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