Re: [EVDL] Fires in hybrid vehicles.

2018-04-18 Thread Lee Hart via EV
paul dove via EV wrote: A Li Ion battery goes into thermal runaway and the only way to douse it is to take away the heat. It supplies it's own oxygen to the fire (at least in the case of LiCoO2). There are hundreds of videos on you tube of people puncturing these cells or the li Pol cells

Re: [EVDL] Fires in hybrid vehicles.

2018-04-18 Thread paul dove via EV
;ev@lists.evdl.org" <ev@lists.evdl.org> Cc: Lawrence Rhodes <primobass...@sbcglobal.net> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 10:20 AM Subject: [EVDL] Fires in hybrid vehicles. I have never thought of this before but isn't a hybrid car a Molotov Cocktail with an electric fuse?

Re: [EVDL] Fires in hybrid vehicles.

2018-04-18 Thread Cor van de Water via EV
via EV Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 8:20 AM To: ev@lists.evdl.org; ev-requ...@lists.evdl.org; ev@lists.evdl.org Cc: Lawrence Rhodes Subject: [EVDL] Fires in hybrid vehicles. I have never thought of this before but isn't a hybrid car a Molotov Cocktail with an electric fuse?  I put out

[EVDL] Fires in hybrid vehicles.

2018-04-18 Thread Lawrence Rhodes via EV
I have never thought of this before but isn't a hybrid car a Molotov Cocktail with an electric fuse?  I put out an electrical fire on a crowded stage by simply climbing up and disconnecting one piece of stage lighting that was burning.  It immediately went out.  However once a battery pack