“Electric Car” Explodes on Driveway and Sets Fire to Family Home After “Battery Malfunctions”
A family home was lit on fire after their “electric car” reportedly exploded while sitting in their driveway. The Mail has more.
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service rushed to a family home in Bromborough, Wirral at around 10pm on Saturday night after receiving reports that a car was on fire. The blaze was put out in just 10 minutes.
The Liverpool Echo reported that the façade of the two-storey family home was blackened by the fire and that the garage was also previously on fire as well.
One man told the Echo that after speaking to the owners of the car this morning they believed the cause of the fire was a “malfunctioning electric car battery”, although this has not been officially confirmed by the fire service.
He said: “I was in bed and heard this popping noise. It sounded like fireworks going off.
“I went outside with my mum and there were bright lights with a car up in flames over the road.
“The owner was in the house when it happened but got out. She told me this morning that the car was only a month old with a thousand miles on the clock and the car battery malfunctioned.”
One woman said: “I heard tyres popping and people came out to see what was going on. Someone started screaming and people rushed out to help.
“I saw it happen and it looked like the fire was coming from where they charge the car. The whole thing was up in flames by the end. It was so scary and my little girl was screaming because she thought something had happened to our house.”
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Good job that most people do not use a garage for daily cars!
The car was in the driveway.
“The blaze was put out in just 10 minutes” suggests that it was not the traction battery that was on fire, unless they’ve invented a brand new technique in Merseyside Fire & Rescue.
I am surprised the fire brigade got there did a risk appraisal, assembled their paraphernalia and put the fire out in ten minutes. They are better than I thought.
From what I’ve found out it could be an off gassing situation where the battery over heats while charging causing the internal pressure to increase and blow a hole it the battery compartment/cooler shroud , this gas is highly flammable and only takes a spark to ignite in the confines of a garage or a covered area or car port or, a still atmosphere with no air movement to disperse such gases.
It’s not a thermal runaway which is much worse and nigh on impossible to put out!
They were very lucky!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDSBpE17u5w
I suppose it depends on what had burnt by the time they got there, if the battery had used up all of its electrolyte and only the car interior was burning it would be relatively easy to extinguish. The problem comes when some cells have burnt out and others are very hot and on the point of bursting, when they do the whole caboosh goes up again.
Imagine this happens with passengers aboard and the locks fail.
It’s going to happen one day.
Like aircraft with a design fault, they must be grounded.
Permanently.
Personally I don’t need them to be “grounded”. No technology developed without mishaps.
I just don’t want them shoved down my throat and I certainly don’t want traditional cars banned.
Live and let live.
Correct, let the market decide!
Nothing to see here folks. EVs are a safe and effective way to combat climate change.
Thames Valley police recently hung small posters to lamp posts in Reading Broad Street warning people against letting electric scooters charge over night and other such risky behaviours (didn’t read the other parts of the text) wrt battery powered bikes and scooters.
Come home to a real fire.
Buy a holiday home in Wales.
🤣🤣 https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1705651803168366638?s=20
Wheels not worth nicking on that one now.
Imagine if a petrol or diesel car exploded and set fire to a house. Jeez the BBC and SKY NEWS would have a field day. Infact they might even have a field month or a field year. The evil fossil fuel companies would be savaged by every pretend to save the planet moron that ever existed. Superglue would be out of stock as all the activists would have suitcases full of it. The tyres of SUV’s would get no peace. The UN would make even more silly pronouncements and the Pope would chip in with his tuppence worth even though he has no mandate from the Lord to pontificate on matters of science ( Not real science, the post normal kind). The King would have to take the gaffa tape off his mouth and tell us there was only 3 weeks left to save the world. ————-But hey we can all relax as it was only an electric car full of cobalt. I am sure the pittance the children were paid in the Congo to mine it all won’t be too bothered that the EV blew up.
It’s amazing how many people in the comments section on MSN say petrol cars catch fire or that petrol is highly flammable without realising petrol cars don’t spontaneously burst into flames. There was a story a couple of months ago about a fatal fire in New York caused by an EV, or it might of been an E-scooter or E-bike. The New York fire department said that lithium batteries were now the biggest cause of fatal fires in the city. This is when about 10% of vehicles are electric so the problem is only going to get worse.
I’m waiting for an electric emergency vehicle to spontaneously combust, it would be ironic if it was a fire engine, then a few more people might sit up and take notice.
it’s amazing how they protect the Manufacturer but not giving the name/brand of a dogs electric car!! which car was it ? Media Skulduggery even for a burning electric car !
Avoiding the risk of being sued, most likely.
This YT entry by “Geoff Buys Cars” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUt-EtePx5g&list=WL&index=6&t=10s has a lot of sceptical commentary about the story in the press.