Here's metal-exercise/brain teaser - what brand and model car is shown in the story image below. The Vacaville FD rep sez its an Electric, but they often get confused calling any non-ice vehicle an Electric. My thinking is the burnt vehicle could be: an EV, pih, hev, cng, or possibly a fcv.
I keyed-in on the shape of the rear tail lights (though the plastic had been burnt away), the width of the truck lid near the rear bumper, the round shape of the filler door on the left hand side, and those curious two vent openings on either side of the bottom rear (sometimes those are just put there to make the vehicle look snazzy, like it has twin tail pipes, etc.). Note: next to it in the gal's garage is a Honda Accord hev, so my thinking is to start looking at other Honda vehicles to match up what can be seen of what is left after the fire burnt away the rear plastic. Looks like the FD officer pulled out some burnt laptop components and wiring, so ?possibly it wasn't necessarily the vehicle's pack that caused the fire, but a li-ion battery? Details: the gal's home was on Quietwood Drive. It was volunteer Battalion Chief Jeff Ryder out of the Vacaville Fire District Fire Station 67 on 4135 Cantelow Rd, Vacaville, CA 95688 (707-447-2252) that handled it. Vacaville-FD Administrative Office is 707-449-5452 Perhaps someone local to Vacaville can call and ask. Vehicles I am guessing it might be are: http://file.kelleybluebookimages.com/kbb/vehicleimage/evoxseo/xxl/10148/2015-honda-civic%20hybrid-rear-view_10148_119_640x480.jpg 2015 Honda Civic hev http://automobiles.honda.com/civic-natural-gas/exterior-360-view.aspx 2015 Honda Civic Coupe cng (drag pointer around for 360 view) This model has a round filler door. Vacaville also has a cng vehicle incentive program, and the nearest cng filling station is only 9miles away. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Honda_Civic_Hybrid_III_20090321_rear.jpg/800px-Honda_Civic_Hybrid_III_20090321_rear.jpg An older model Honda Civic hev, the lights are round-ishp but the trunk lid near the rear bumper seems too wide http://image.automobilemag.com/f/91951569+w660+h440+q80+cr1+ar0/honda-clarity-fuel-cell-rear-three-quarters.jpg I do not think it was a Honda Clarity fcv because its filler door is not round, also the cloest h2 station is 30miles away. - http://www.thereporter.com/article/NG/20160310/NEWS/160319988 Electric car likely cause of garage fire 03/10/16 Dom Pruett [image http://image.thereporter.com/storyimage/NG/20160310/NEWS/160319988/AR/0/AR-160319988.jpg A Vacaville firefighter pours water on the remains of a vehicle inside the garage of a home Thursday in the 200 block of Quietwood Drive. The cause of the one-alarm fire is under investigation. Joel Rosenbaum — The Reporter ] Two Vacaville Fire Department engines and one truck handled a garage fire Thursday afternoon that destroyed much of a car inside a Quietwood Drive home. The resident of the home noticed her closed garage door windows trickling with smoke after walking back from her daughter’s nearby residence. The Vacaville Fire Department received a call from the owner around 12:50 p.m. Shortly after, two Vacaville Fire Engines, one truck, and one medical unit arrived to combat the one-alarm fire and saw the homeowner standing in front of her residence, confirmed Battalion Chief Jeff Ryder. The homeowner then revealed that there was no one inside aside from her two cats. Despite the abundance of smoke that came from the garage area, firefighter’s learned the car parked inside was the focus of the fire. Soon after, Ryder attributed the cause of the fire to the car, as the rest of the garage only endured heat damage and the fire didn’t enter the inside of the home. The owner of the house, according to Ryder, said she charged her electric car in her garage that morning around 10 a.m., stepped out to visit her daughter’s nearby home, and then walked back to the sight of the smoke. “We determined it to be a malfunction in the electric vehicle,” Ryder said. As she looked on as the firefighters removed her garage door from across the street, the shaken homeowner was consoled by a swarm of neighbors as they watched the last of the flames doused. [© The Reporter] ... http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_29626581/electric-car-likely-cause-north-bay-garage-fire?source=rss Electric car likely cause of North Bay garage fire 03/11/2016 ... "We determined it to be a malfunction in the electric vehicle," Ryder said ... - For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/What-brand-model-car-was-burned-in-a-Vacaville-CA-garage-fire-tp4680935.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
