Excellent point Lee! There is a common anti-EV (and now right wing) talking point about EVs being dangerous and busting into flames, which I always like to counter with this: "There are about 170,000 highway vehicle fires in the United States each year, with gasoline vehicles being responsible for the majority of these incidents. Specifically, gasoline and diesel vehicles account for approximately 83 percent of all highway vehicle fires."
On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 12:18 PM Lee Hart via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > LFP sounds much more dangerous than I had been led to believe. > > Well, nothing is perfectly "safe". LFP is safer than ternary lithium. > Lead-acid is safer than LFP. It's all relative. Any battery can burst, spew > toxic chemicals or gases, start a fire, etc. You just have the know the > potential failure modes, and allow for them in your design. > > Consider how dangerous and toxic gasoline is! Yet people think nothing > about driving around with gallons of the stuff! > > -- > Excellence does not require perfection. -- Henry James > But it *does* require attention to detail! -- Lee Hart > -- > Lee A. Hart https://www.sunrise-ev.com > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20260225/62059f09/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
