I bet he wired up his EVSE himself without putting in bigger wires even though he claimed it wasn’t plugged in at the time
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 31, 2019, at 9:57 AM, brucedp5 via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > https://ca.news.yahoo.com/despite-le-bizard-explosion-expert-090057613.html > Despite Île-Bizard explosion, expert says electric cars safer than others > July 31, 2019 CBC > > [image > https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/lB9_Df0U5JMbeB8Q.rh8pw--~A/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cbc.ca/3f8322404b73278fc02f455d77a57d38 > Eric Carbonneau/Radio-Canada > ] > > Even though an electric car battery exploded in Île-Bizard last week, > blowing a garage door clear across the street, there is no reason to doubt > their safety, says the federal government's leading battery scientist. > > Dean MacNeil, head of the battery testing team at the National Research > Council of Canada, said evidence suggests electric cars are safer than ones > fuelled by diesel or gasoline. > > But safety issues with traditional cars don't attract the same amount of > attention. > > "I'm sure everyone's seen a car on fire on the side of the road and not > really thought much about it," MacNeil said. "But if it was an electric car, > there would be a lineup of people taking pictures and showing it on the > internet." > > Electric car batteries basically operate the same way as a cellphone battery > does, he said. > > The main difference is that they're larger. Whereas a cellphone battery is > the size of a credit card, an individual battery cell is as tall as a sheet > of paper and about half-inch thick. > > Those cells are stacked together to form a battery pack, which differ based > on the range, performance and price you want to pay for the vehicle. > > West Island explosion still being investigated > > The electric car that exploded in Île-Bizard on July 26 blew the door off > the garage and sent it across the street. > > Transport Canada is working with the Montreal fire department and the car's > manufacturer, Hyundai, to determine what happened. > > "The details that will be gathered will help determine the next steps, and > whether a full defect investigation is warranted," said Mélany Gauvin, the > director of operations at the federal transport ministry. > > MacNeil said what could have happened may have been as simple as a small > mechanical defect inside the battery cell. > > He speculated that the warm weather on Friday may have sped up the chain of > events that led to the explosion, but the heat itself was unlikely the > primary cause. > > MacNeil said there are things that need to be improved with electric cars, > but that overall, safety isn't a major issue — he has two children who ride > in his electric car and he isn't worried about them. > > Hyundai Canada would not comment on the explosion but would "push to fully > understand the issue as quickly as possible," said public relations > coordinator Jasmine Law. > [© ca.news.yahoo.com] > > > > > For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: > http://evdl.org/archive/ > > > {brucedp.neocities.org} > > -- > Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
