Centro Zaragoza tests the Bridgehill Fire Blanket on an electric vehicle

[@Tennouseijin]

2:16 - caption says "battery thermal runaway sound", but music plays too loud to hear anything.

[@Auger3504]

Ditto

[@michael931]

That's the sound. When batteries overheat, techno music comes out of them. That's the warning sign...

[@kd741]

And this is safer? Also, how toxic is lithium mining versus oil, gas and coal mining? Thoughts? I love how they mine the cobalt in Congo, it’s a very high tech and safe operation kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3PPmYqIo9GcocU

[@andrewQueDeLlee]

The other milk..... Another moooooo

[@andrewQueDeLlee]

@@michael931 appre.... Babakh.......!

[@colinlegrys9434]

The blanket is not the solution for extinguishing the blaze, but it can certainly contain it and stop it from spreading to nearby cars or buildings etc.

[@The_Touring_Jedi]

New EU Law is about to bring this stupidity of e-mobility to end as I heard...😂😂😂😂

[@parajacks4]

@@The_Touring_Jedi The only “stupid” here, is people not realizing that electric cars are the future.

[@The_Touring_Jedi]

@@parajacks4 Another ignorant as usuall jumps in I see...🤣🤣🤦‍♂️

[@mr.upcycle9589]

​@@parajacks4Well... smart people reaize that, there are not enough rare earth elements on the planet to make electric cars the future. They are going to have to come up with a different way of going about it.

[@BorrisOrloff]

​@@mr.upcycle9589​​smart people know, that rare earth elements are no problem. Two out of three modern electric motors in electric cars are already completely without rare earth elements today, as are already LFP batteries (used in many electric cars) and future sodium batteries comming in electric cars in 2024 (battery world market leader CATL already produces such batteries). In addition, old batteries can be recycled with a rear earth elements recovery rate of 98 percent. Smart people also know that rare earth elements aren't all that rare. As of 2023, there are over 440 known large deposits worldwide, of which less than 5 percent are being exploited, almost all in China.

[@jimsmith556]

Great video. Thanks for sharing. However I don't understand how you could think that music adds to the experience. It is distracting, loud and covers up the sounds of the battery fire etc. Not necessary.

[@Sidicas]

Some people just want to hear the world burn.

[@wildlifewarrior2670]

You have a volume button use it

[@jimgordon3206]

They add music to everything now. Quite often to the detriment of the film. It routinely drowns out the dialog. I find it very annoying.

[@illuminaughty2929]

It’s called elevator music. There’s the exit. Use it buh bye Karen

[@colingenge9999]

I thought I was the only one totally annoyed by useless background music. It is true that some peoples’ brains need a constant series of noisy distractions. Otherwise they lose focus. But focus on what?

[@cranegantry868]

In a garage, under an apartment block there may be a mix of cars (electric and gas/diesel). The impossibility of quickly putting out a battery fire may impact on other cars parked nearby as they will be MORE susceptible to the fire. That could affect insurance, safety and how apartment blocks are to be built and managed.

[@elpresidente1000]

Legend says the blanket is still covering the car in August 2022.

[@vladimirharkonnen458]

November 2022, and still burning.

[@yooliu9140]

March 2023, and still burning.

[@Krzeszny95]

April 2023 and still burning

[@jwalster9412]

Just checked, it's still covering the car on April 2023

[@kazuu_777]

You've perfected the perpetual thermal power generation mechanism.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

Eight minutes until the battery reached thermal runaway is actually pretty impressive.

[@77chevy4x4]

By a burner .. how about a instant spark ⚡️ … hopefully one’s physical ability faster than that .,

[@1allan2]

Normally the heat is generated in the inside of the battery, if they shorted the pack it would be far quicker !

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

@@1allan2 Until EV batteries are flame proof, battery makers have to up their ante and take battery management to the next level so that even before a short can happen that battery cell is physically separated from the rest of the pack and isolated somehow. Maybe some sort of quick-hardening foam can be dispensed automatically into the battery pack that cuts off that cell's oxygen? It's worth noting that EV battery fires are quite rare, while gasoline and diesel vehicle fires occur about 150 times every day.

[@Crimson.S.57]

@@JustWasted3HoursHere yah because most cars are over 10yrs old and usually don't receive proper maintenance, dispite that they generally slowly catch fire or give some kind off indicators of the Hazzard. Giving passengers time to get out and possibly extinguish the fire. EV with less than 5yrs on the road give little to no warning before turning the car into a fireball belching lethaly toxic smoke. Oh and it's next to impossible to put out a Lithium fire with traditional equipment.

[@kd741]

I love how they mine the cobalt in Congo, it’s a very high tech and safe operation kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3PPmYqIo9GcocU

[@BigMacProDaddy]

definitely going to need a bigger blanket for a Rivian. A perimeter of lead shot would help hold the edges down, going to need something in a windy environment

[@dangeary2134]

Better to use steel chains. Easily laid down, and easily removed. No need for hooks, and they are quite heavy, depending on link size.

[@THE_EXPERIMENTER]

@@dangeary2134 Tungsten chains would be even better.

[@todydn]

​@@dangeary2134shit sew it into the edge of the blanket

[@lightscameraactionletstryt5132]

A water filled skirt, attached to a fire hose, would add the required weight. It may even be possible to have pressure activated nozzles on the inside of the skirt that which would release a spray of water onto the vehicle from within the blanket when required.

[@BigMacProDaddy]

@@THE_EXPERIMENTER how much money though? Just need something heavy and cheap

[@tomgreene7942]

We used thermal blankets on the Space Shuttle, in fact I have a scrap piece in my garage. I often wondered if the technology could be used to cover a house when there is a firestorm. Interesting that someone finally made a blanket like this. In this instance with the electric vehicle, they could have covered the vehicle then injected CO2 to stop the fire even quicker. But the battery has been breached, so the lithium would be exposed to oxygen when the blanket is removed, so it would re-ignite, like it did.

[@joeschlepp]

what are these blankets made from

[@bengardener8928]

The battery contains its own oxygen source, you cannot put them out with co2 or preventing oxygen entering.

[@phillip6083]

I think this needs to be a multistep process.batteries re-ignite with ecposure to air regardless of sufficient heat being present. I would suggest blanket stage 1. Cargo can with a winch phase 2. Gass injection to can phase 3.

[@Naoquerose]

At least an intelligent answer... Since it's a thermal runway, you need to wait for the battery to cool down. It's not the lithium in contact with oxygen. In that case, the fire started again because inside the battery the temperature was very high. Don't you agree? Amazing thecnology of those blankets by the way.

[@doctorcountersteer6580]

Sorry, tomgreene, but lithium-ion combusts via a process known as thermal runaway; not unlike how a flare will burn underwater. It generates its own oxygen so no amount of CO2 at atmospheric pressure can do a THING to extinguish such a fire. This is one angle that the oligarchic leftards with their short-sighted selves overlooked..........

[@jimskirtt5717]

Three years later, they still can't take the blanket off - it's still waiting to reignite.

[@thedbcooperforum]

In that time gas tankers killed hundreds...we can do the gotcha all day..

[@adolfgerhardhermann5952]

@@thedbcooperforum But only if transporting self-igniting EV's instead of eco-friendly oil products!

[@V0YAG3R]

@@thedbcooperforumAnd communism and islam are religions of peace.

[@logitech4873]

​@@V0YAG3Rcommunism isn't a religion

[@adriancressy8363]

That's about the story. The blanket can stop the spread. What about in a ship with 500 other EV's. It's not easy to maneuver around on the deck that has the flaming EV fire and the toxic cobalt fumes. It may take training for the ship workers to act fast and organized with that blanket.

[@hondaslex]

On the other hand, if every vehicle is covered from the beginning, this will not be a problem. And don't forget, there are so many batteries for EV's shipped from China to be put ion car's.

[@adriancressy8363]

@@hondaslex That's a better idea. The car manufacturer buys the blanket and only very light charge on the batteries

[@butwhytharum]

Don't pack them so tight together... Loosing the entire ship isn't really worth the extra dollar or two from an extra car or two

[@ivorvickerman8061]

There is NO training presently that would help in such circumstances, except get the hell out, if possible. And let it burn itself out.

[@fukhue8226]

Ships need Foam and lots of it. Drown the cars in Dawn Dish Soap bubbles and Fire Retardant 20 feet thick if a hint of a fire breaks out.

[@MrChrisgilbert1977]

When Hammond crashed that hyper car that was electric the thermal Runaway lasted for over a week with the batteries. We still don't know how to put them out. That smoke is toxic and corrosive. Keep it under that blanket for 2 weeks and it should be ok 😂

[@Cap_management]

We know. Cooling with water until it cools enough and than its safe.

[@ЕвгенийЗ-о7с]

Накрывайте почаще 😄

[@SLOCLMBR]

@@Cap_management you really should try putting water on lithium..

[@mynameisjeff.]

@@SLOCLMBR Lithium-ion is not the same lithium metal. You absolutely do put water on a lithium-ion battery fire to extinguish all surrounding material and lower the temperature of the other cells to prevent runaway.

[@Dr.Mcstaby]

yeah and they say EV cars are the answer to the emissions problem... HA yeah ok

[@peterlejon5458]

Here in Belgium, they put the car in a container filled with water. Because the car will often reignite after the fire men have left.

[@marsmars9130]

Doesnt sound COSTLY! or unsafe at all? LOL LOL

[@peterlejon5458]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fITIlGuAiJZjfq8

[@peterlejon5458]

They can reuse the container over and over again. The rest is just water to fill it. The main advantage is that the fire doesn’t restart a few hours later when the firemen have gone back to their station.

[@larskruse7575]

@@peterlejon5458 as a firefighter from germany we also thought about that - problem is: the water needs to be treated like chemical waste afterwards making it very expensive and wastefull At least that's what they told us

[@jwalster9412]

​@@larskruse7575 depends on the country. Some have less laws against things like this.

[@kazuu_777]

Are the batteries of this Nissan Leaf fully charged before conducting this experiment? Or are they in an empty state? I would like that to be specified.

[@SeersantLoom]

Too calm and quiet and temp dropping under blanket. I was wondering if there was any battery at all, considering how some more extreme videos have shown EV fires so far. Where's the flamethrower whoosh?

[@PSUQDPICHQIEIWC]

@@SeersantLoom Yeah. The thermal runaway of a battery pack depends on the flow of heat away from the cells. It does not depend on available oxygen, so the only thing the blanket does is suffocate the burning plastic and allow the dangerous buildup of flammable gases at high temperature. The energy stored in the pack is still going to be released as heat and gas. The fact that the blanket "worked" tells you that there wasn't any significant amount of energy in the pack. Don't expect advertisements to be honest.

[@johnrea2115]

The battery bank in that car is minuscule compared to battery storage in modern EV’s

[@arniekando6846]

As they said.....the bucket below is just for the petrol to ignite the batteries that's out of view....

[@mattd8411]

Thanks for the video. As a firefighter they told us not to use water for the pollution and so much run off. This seems great is there a investment opportunity?

[@OTOWN2STOCKTOWN]

Very negative when it comes to the batteries being much more prone to violent fire once ignited and burn for much longer than fuel cars They can also reignite once stopped Also the EV car fire has high risk of multiplying fire once parked near another EV

[@mrsleep0000]

I don't know about that, as soon as they take the blanket off it flares right up. They never showed them taking the blanket off and the fire being out.

[@mattd8411]

@mrsleep yeah I guess so it will definitely need be tested in multiple situations and over time.

[@dangeary2134]

The concept is sound, but the amount of time it takes to extinguish such a fire is the real issue. The blanket is one thing. Someone may have to design a mobile chamber that is capable of starving the fire of oxygen. Getting the blanket on to control it is one thing. A system to remove it from a highway or even a populated area will need to be considered. Placing the car in a sealed container, and possibly flooding the container with carbon dioxide might be the trick. The container could be transported to a facility and left to cool down for an extended period without disrupting a highway or downtown area.

[@justlookingaround]

I wonder how toxic that ground is now under that car? And how it will enter the water stream now.

[@BIGBOB4286]

Great idea, but it seems to only contain the flame, so far the batteries are the issue. They have to come out with a quicker way to put these type of fires to be completely extinguished.

[@YurkerYT]

Yes, but the exact same happens with water, except this uses none. For those who don't know, it takes about 6-10 times more water to suffocate a electric car fire compared to that of gasoline/diesel. Hence it's tested on a electric car.

[@ekhaat]

Just keep the blanket on the car

[@ONEIL311]

Sand works too u literally have to bury it un sand to make it stop

[@ichoppabroccoli3670]

As soon as the exposed battery chemicals get oxygen they go back to runaway state. That's why a bazillion gallons of water works at first but as soon as that boils away from insane heat you're back to runaway. There was an EV in my town firefighters put out but it started up again so they put it in a shipping container until it was dust I guess. Think I'll stick with combustion engines since that's worked great for me for like 50 yrs.

[@jwalster9412]

They need something that can neutralize the lithium.

[@thilokass3966]

Yes, that may all look like a great solution. The blanket is heavy, you need four people and space around the vehicle to cover the fire so now try this on a car carrier ocean vessel or even better, a large underground public parking garage. Can't wait to see how it will work.

[@rogerphelps9939]

With appropriate precautions everything should be find. Millions of devices containing lithium batteries are carried in aircraft every day with no problems. EVs catching fire is an extremely rare occurrence and is set to become all but impossible with emerging EV battery technology

[@lachlanB323]

EVs only catch fire under extreme circumstances or are GM'S bolt EVs lol. So you have to be in a major car accident. No major car accidents happen in a garage or car carrier ocean vessels lmao.

[@rogerphelps9939]

I suggest you actually look up the statistics. EVs catch fitre less often than ICE cars. When an ICE car burns it just isn't news,

[@hondaslex]

@@rogerphelps9939 So it is. It depends also on the build quality to reduce the risk f self ignition. Just look at these cheap Electro scooters. They start burning quiet easely.

[@moabman6803]

EV fires will never be impossible

[@luqmxnyonkou5650]

Wondering how the tires were still holding up before they covered

[@florian6593]

Good point

[@t.r.l.4377]

runflats! 😁

[@johnnyshd8250]

Free blanket with every Chevy Bolt purchase today only

[@mmc5261]

Lol

[@baburaospeaks2429]

Along with 2 persons / robots to deploy the blanket (after removing people from inside the car)

[@bigredchnl20]

Yah no thank . Gona replace my garage and my belongings to lol

[@zigadabooga]

@@bigredchnl20 more of a chance your gas car goes up

[@macbook802]

Tesla has hundreds of fire under their belt, the bolt has 19?

[@TannerCLynn]

So it didn't really put it out cuz it self-ignited as soon as the blanket was removed??

[@thevintagehifiambassador8524]

this is one of the best death metal albums.

[@JL-wf2wp]

Lmfao

[@cornonthecobmom3482]

My four year old didn’t believe that there’s blankets that put out fires, he was in awe watching this 😆

[@bogged2theeyeballs695]

In this particular case the blanket helped contain the fire, not put it out. Currently there is nothing that will extinguish EV battery fires. It is an exothermic, self oxidising reaction that must be left to run it's coarse until all the reactants are consumed. A reaction such as this would still occur when completely under water.

[@jeff1407]

He was right.

[@markplain2555]

Just wait until he finds out you cam fly around sitting on a blanket.

[@Vzw-dj9rf]

Since the fire doesn't go out, this only appears to offer a chance to minimize damage to nearby items. Since the fire doesn't go out, if there is no risk to nearby property or structures, is it better to just let it burn? It also seems like pulling a blanket over an undamaged vehicle - a small one, at that - isn't a real-world test. Also, having the firefighters that close to the burning vehicle doesn't seem like the best practice.

[@JasonJohnson-kq2eq]

So you just leave the car there forever? How do you stop it from igniting every time the blanket comes off?

[@boostedmaniac]

Once those batteries are exposed to air they will reignite. At least that’s my understanding.

[@robertskelton2576]

How would they handle a hybrid, let the gas tank deployed first? Or do they risk it and pray?

[@IngGonzalez]

Having seen this, the authorities will have to force the manufacturers to encapsulate the batteries in armored compartments equipped with halon gas tanks, so that the passengers have time to vacate the vehicle.

[@alexanderpas]

The car is able to detect a battery failure, switch to safe mode, and instruct the driver to pull over and leave the vehicle, before the failure becomes dangerous to a passenger. I am not aware of any fatal incident related to battery fires in EVs

[@quartermaine6543]

Encapsulate it in compartment with sand so that when it caught fire the partition will peel off then the sand will work as fire extinguiser.

[@houseburner1188]

@@alexanderpas Most battery fires are due to collision. There's actually a genuine concern to thermal runaway being more dangerous than a gasoline/ deisel fire in this situation.

[@peterg463]

that will add even more weight to an already heavy vehicle.

[@colingenge9999]

@@houseburner1188 what percentage? a lot more people are injured and killed in gasoline fires than in Electric Vehicle fires.

[@edwardh50g]

will the blanket help to prevent reignition, and eventual total snuffing out of fire? any data?

[@bryananderson999]

But was there a "Total Snuff" or was.it just implied? After 41 minutes the video ends with the car still covered. What happens when they uncover it again???

[@Bloodreav3r]

It reignites again because the energy is still stored in parts of the battery, this shit can go on for as long as there is some left, thats why it burns/reacts under water too.

[@OOTurok]

No... because oxygen is present in the cathode material of the battery. The lithium in the battery will continue to burn until all the oxygen is used up. After which the blanket has to remain until the temperature drops below the flash point of lithium, so further oxidation does not contiune, when exposed to the atmosphere.

[@goldgitter3548]

@@bryananderson999 last I heard...it is still covered.

[@jwalster9412]

​@@Bloodreav3r quickly, grab the flood lights, and plug them into the charger!

[@jayson8825]

Can someone explain how the blanket resisted the fire? What is it made of

[@loden888]

asbestos?

[@jwalster9412]

​@@loden888 ah yes, because asbestos is definitely not illegal. It's probably heat resistant kevlar or something.

[@jeff1407]

Unicorn skin, it's magical

[@sergiofonseca2285]

Fun fact, Lithium batteries will ignite when in context with oxygen That's why even with the fire out it reignited. As long as there is still lithium exposed, the fire will not give up.

[@bramesque]

Lithium behaves like Phosphorus!

[@simon6071]

GOOGLE: Are lithium battery fires self oxidizing? As fire fighters have discovered in recent years, lithium-ion battery fires are prone to reigniting. That's because the lithium salts in the battery are self-oxidizing, which means that they can't be "starved out" like a traditional fire.

[@briant7265]

The blanket won't put the batteries out. They will burn without oxygen. It will do two things that are useful. One is to keep the rest of the car, the parts that do need oxygen to burn, from burning. The other, as seen here, is to contain the (now reduced) fire. Nice if you're in a garage or near buildings or other vehicles.

[@brucekellett440]

Now let's recall what Boeing had to do with their Li battery packs on the dreamliner 787. I believe, and correct me if i'm wrong, but they had to place them in a stainless steel container which could be jettisoned out of the plane in case of fire.

[@JoeBLOWFHB]

Yeah that won't be a problem on a crowded highway or fly up on a crowded sidewalk and kill a bunch of people.

[@peterjgeraghty]

I understand that they are just testing the properties of the blanket but how does this work if it's a bit breezy?

[@t.r.l.4377]

you'll find somewhere 200 miles away 4 firefighters attached to that blanked.......!? 😁

[@whogivesaflyingfock5401]

You remember that surveillance video of the turkish guy flying off with an umbrella? Yeah, that.

[@felthev222]

If it works in the garage it's a good start

[@44saw44]

The battery runaway sound sounds like music how cool

[@barackblows1942]

They’ll need to keep a few at the charging station. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@barackblows1942]

@timemachine194 Haha tell me that story when your feet are on fire in your EV and your kids are trapped in the back seat. 🔥🔥🔥🔥☠️☠️☠️

[@kd741]

I love how they mine the cobalt in Congo, it’s a very high tech and safe operation kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3PPmYqIo9GcocU

[@arniekando6846]

EV`s are 98% less likely to catch fire than ICE vehicles. these posts are really unintelligent..........This is insurance statistics

[@michaelmelzer4598]

And.....if there are people inside the car (after a crash)?

[@t.r.l.4377]

500 millionen , bruder! ✌😁

[@Alrukitaf]

2:18 funny how “battery thermal runaway” sounds just like music!

[@belina65]

What’s the temperature now ? (August 2023)

[@g.h.5057]

There should be one of these blankets in the roofs of every electric vehicle that deploy like air bags in case of fire! (Sarcasm......but, not so much)

[@TheComputec]

Well it's half of a good idea...Not sure the car occupants would appreciate their car being cocooned at that point

[@07350zhr]

They're saving the environment

[@t.r.l.4377]

✌😁

[@arniekando6846]

EV`s are 98% less likely to catch fire than ICE vehicles. these posts are really unintelligent..........This is insurance statistics

[@That1ufo]

So how long did it take????????????

[@robertburdick2998]

Did the car reignite again, and again? End of video leaves a lot of questions.

[@1964mcqueen]

I'm feeling safer than ever in my Nissan Leaf. First we see how long it took for the battery pack to ignite, with a lot of fire directly ender it. The video indicates thermal runaway at over 8 minutes in. Then, just before the blanket was pulled over it, the car was still not fully engulfed. That was more than 10 minutes in. There was no explosion, and plenty of time for occupants to get out.

[@frazzle657]

Yer... unless trapped from an accident that has pierced the batteries and caused the fire.

[@1964mcqueen]

@@frazzle657 Yes, just like the thousand of ICE vehicle fires that have killed thousands of people over the years. They are less likely in a BEV and, if this video is an indication, will allow more time to get out.

[@wordreet]

The blanket is impressive that's for sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@vvvvv543]

Would it not be possible to pack all car batteries in this blanket inside the car when the car is built? Or do need battery's oxygen?

[@ivorvickerman8061]

This is, I guess, supposed to reassure us about EV fires. Consider the following; this was filmed in the middle of a wide open area, with nothing else around. Consider if this was on a ships car decks, surrounded by many other cars. Or in a multi story car park, full to capacity. On a residential street. In a packed car showroom. The fumes would be catastrophic, even if breathing apparatus were somehow available. Then consider what happens to insurance when a lot of these things happen - why, it goes up. And up. And the nature of insurance is that the wise man bears the brunt of the fool.

[@uprightfossil6673]

Countries with smart people running them do not allow them on their ferries because of this fire issue.

[@Ktmfan450]

Cities used to be walkable places until the automotive industry lobbied government to mandate wide roads and suburban zoning

[@Karl-by6ub]

What happens to the people in side the car ❓🤔

[@bigjd2k]

Why not push a water sprayer underneath before pulling the blanket over, it would cool the battery down while the flames are inhibited.

[@wordreet]

Probably because they have a tray of flammable fuel under there to start the fire in the first place. I was expecting them to pull it out actually, but I see no steel cables attached to it to move it. And it would be likely to spill anyway.

[@kd741]

I love how they mine the cobalt in Congo, it’s a very high tech and safe operation kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3PPmYqIo9GcocU

[@bowriver]

I dont think water does much with high volt electricty😨

[@handyandy6050]

Don't think water gets on very well with lithium.

[@jwalster9412]

Water doesn't stop lithium fires.

[@iKaGe01]

Still early days. Batteries are getting towards solid state which won't have thermal run away such as this. It also took a lot of heat to ignite the battery

[@kd741]

And this is safer? Also, how toxic is lithium mining versus oil, gas and coal mining? Thoughts? kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3PPmYqIo9GcocU

[@helixvonsmelix]

No idea, but you better sell you mobile phone quick.

[@kd741]

@@helixvonsmelix yep! Because the battery was a product of slave labor. Along with just about every lithium ion battery in existence. Just replacing one evil toxic power source with another… kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3PPmYqIo9GcocU

[@benwilson5893]

Do we include the decades of war that has kept the oil industry successful and competitive?

[@kd741]

@@benwilson5893 and we have decades of war over kobalt and lithium mines to keep the EV industry profitable as the wealthy keep drilling to keep their private planes flying. There will always be a reason to keep conflicts going🤷🏻‍♂️

[@armchairtin-kicker503]

A new product, a car cover for BEVs, especially those ones parked in garages! Also good as an e-bike cover as well.

[@th.h.4947]

Well with a classic fuel car, the blanket cuts the oxygen-supply (the oxygen being reduced) form the air, so the fuel can't burn (be oxidated) anymore. But as this car has both parts of the Red-Ox-Reaction in its own batteries, the basic reaction continues and that blanket provides mostly a heat protection e.g. for the tunnel roof and reduces damage done by the toxic and corrosive gases, as apparently less smoke is released. So may be especially in Switzerland with a lot of tunnels, this could be a good tool. The underlying road-tar or concrete will most probably suffer equal damage, despite some organic-material parts which may burn less under this blanket, as environmental oxygen is cut off for all organic-material e.g. plastic parts. (Soory, I use "organic" material in the definition for chemistry here, "organic" isn't as such equal to biologically produced food or textile tissue!) So may be an other device to be pushed under the car, to protect the road-tar may be an additional goodie. All in all, I think such e-cars should have something like a protected ceramic resistor which is switched on to dissipate in a safe way the energy stored in the battery as soon as possible in case of a detected accident. Similar to a fuel car, where a safety device already Golf 1/ Jetta 1 in 1974 (!) was installed with the aim to switch off the fuel pump if a hard shock was detected. This battery-energy "emptying" device would also make the storage of accident cars less dangerous, as after some time, the battery energy should go to zero.

[@Sheppart92]

Thx to the Batteries in E-Cars, here in Germany for Example, the Fire Departments need to take a E-Car if it burned, place it into an Open Container that is full with Water and let the Car sit in there for at least 4-7 Days that they can be absolutly safe that the Battery dont Re-ignite. But this Method produces a Couple THousand liter of Contaminated Water and it is Time Consuming.

[@kd741]

And this is safer? Also, how toxic is lithium mining versus oil, gas and coal mining? Thoughts? I love how they mine the cobalt in Congo, it’s a very high tech and safe operation kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3PPmYqIo9GcocU

[@julianbrelsford]

@@EverythingWilsonMalone agreed, and you also have to consider that.. 1. What do you think is the size and weight of a resistor that can AVOID melting/burning itself while quickly discharging the energy of an entire EV battery such as the 100kWh ones in many Tesla's? 2. Assuming you make your resistor absorb that energy, (as heat) what do you suppose is going to happen to the energy next? That's a lot of heat so there's no guarantee it's less hazardous than the battery it gets discharged from, right?

[@SLOCLMBR]

@@julianbrelsford I'm with you, a resistor to drain the battery sounds about as wise as bathing with a toaster.

[@cosco88008]

Yes, yes really convenient, save the poor guy inside the mousetrap and then cover the whole vehicle yourself, this applies to an electric motorbike or bicycle, maybe to a hybrid, but for a pure electric if not in a protective suit it is impossible to get close

[@anthonymoore7770]

Will that blanket keep you warm after the car in the integral garage has burns your house down

[@iancampbell2340]

i want to see this done on a windy day

[@VXGaming]

Bring your bricks.

[@felthev222]

It's for fire in the garage

[@audreybarnes6527]

So is that what happens in a little family car, the fire is in the rear? So before an adult will realise what's going on, the car will be on fire in the area where their children will sit and the adults will need to try and retrieve them?

[@blacknoir2404]

Why not just remove all the oxygen from the atmosphere so we don't have this problem?

[@jay-aryambao9286]

ok 👌 fine

[@infledermaus]

AAAahahahahahaaaaaaa! Yeah, let's do that right away! No one needs to breathe, right!

[@kd741]

And this is safer? Also, how toxic is lithium mining versus oil, gas and coal mining? Thoughts? 😁

[@joeyvlljs7931]

They are working on it didn't you see all the hazardous smoke coming from this car just to test a blanket that will never be used to put out a fire in the real world.

[@knowurself4999]

@timemachine194 doubt water should ever be used in lithium rich environment but yeah if unburned cells are not leaking it could be effective

[@trs4u]

With all due sensitivity to this being taken the wrong way - could a heat pump help? I'm thinking reducing the amount of heat under the blanket more quickly would reduce the time needed to bring it under control.

[@WhiskeyGulf71]

I was thinking of chucking in a few potatoes wrapped in tin foil, maybe some fish or even a casserole.

[@fredfrond6148]

I put one of those on whenever I park my bolt.

[@jwalster9412]

Your bolt really do be hot don't it?

[@ropeyarn]

Is the battery in a hybrid big enough to worry about? And is the battery well separated from the gas tank?

[@Treshar]

Now imagine 5 of these in a row at your local underground carpark charging station, keeping in mind those firefighters are wearing protective gear because the toxic gas emissions coming off a battery fire are absolutely deadly.

[@keithbenson4915]

Maybe they shouldn't put charging stations in underground car parks.

[@tjmmcd1]

It STILL didn't put the fire out.

[@scottwebb7415]

There is a lot of this ev fires considering how few there is out there, something has to be done this is very destructive to the environment.

[@monkeysezbegood]

Need better design standards. Technology is good, better than gas cars.

[@santiagojuarez6448]

Tienes razon. Los coches electricos son mucho peores que los coches a gasolina. Contaminan mucho mas ya que para construir una bateria se utiliza mucho litio y el proceso de extraccion del mismo es extremadamente dañino para el medio ambiente

[@loadapish]

@@monkeysezbegood better design is probably right. Battery tech needs to evolve. Ive heard old batteries cant be disposed of and only last 2 or 3 years. There will be mountains of battries in 20 years time. Also cobalt mining is destroying congo and the cobalt mines are not safe, workers are being exploited. Electric vehicles definatly has its downsides

[@monkeysezbegood]

@@loadapish it's true but I think battery tech is already way more advanced than you realize. Cobalt percentage in batteries I'd declining fast. Some batteries already use zero. Battery life is now at the life of the car in many cases. Spend batteries will be recycled as they contain a lot of valuable metals etc... Industry is changing quickly and for the better. It needed to.

[@thomasbialzik3060]

The curve is still being learned for durable designs that can survive everyday, real-life conditions. America alone burns millions of barrels of oil everyday single day, a couple hundred battery fires hardly puts a dent in it.

[@michaelboykin9881]

At over 1000 Celsius, why did the tires not explode? Seems pretty odd. I've seen car fires and the tires always explode in the first few minutes.

[@jimgordon3206]

Every EV should have one of those that you put over it every time it’s parked.

[@maestrovso]

Better yet a garage built with only abastos. The occupants should wear fireproof suit covered from head to toes.

[@sparkyplug28]

Why? EV in the UK catch fire about 5 times less than ice cars

[@ПётрБ-с2ц]

was the battery charged before fire? burns too quietly for my taste

[@tomasdeniska3450]

Вещь хорошая. Но не везде можно применить, если есть опасность взрыва.

[@ЕвгенийЗ-о7с]

Зато есть какое то занятие 🙂

[@JM_BoltActionGunStuff]

What about electrick busses and semitrucks?

[@NotFastEddie]

It didn't work to put the fire out, but it did contain it. Rather than use it for fighting EV fires, it should be issued to EV owners as an accessory. It should be used to cover EV's when charging in your attached garage or when parked in close proximity to other cars, like in car parks or when being transported on container ships, to contain fires before they have a chance to spread.

[@thebaicus]

Yes to let the car owner feel miserable.

[@ryanv3751]

Yes, and make them use a solar charger or wind turbine so they don’t have to feel so hypocritical!!!

[@bobc997615]

But will it be a viable solution if several cars are entangled or against a object?

[@jeroen7699]

If a lithium battery is pierced or damaged in a crash, it can cause an almost instant inferno.

[@kacper.6537]

cant wait for all the fires when normal cars are banned and only EVs can roam the earth... gonna start new wildfires but in the middle of germany and not a californian desert...

[@RObert_channel13]

Lithium is a quick bomb

[@Ocker3]

What's your source?

[@kacper.6537]

@@Ocker3 have u ever owned a lithium powered device for a few years? ever witnessed the battery blowing up and causing havoc? u can look up on youtube lithium battery explosion and enjoy the view.

[@Ocker3]

@@kacper.6537 so, you're speaking from personal experience? Or just worst case videos from the internet? Per mile traveled, modern electric cars are much safer than petrol/diesel.

[@ptww6024]

What happened when fire came from battery it's self.it create so much heat . I don't think this blanket work

[@peterg463]

Much will depend presumably, on how quickly the fire brigade can reach the vehicle.

[@robertjones1730]

put the blanket on to smother the oxygen, leave it there until the temperature is low enough that re-ignition can't happen. There's a lot of thermal mass there, it would probably take a couple days for every part of it to drop below the ignition temp. If one tiny area is still hot enough, as soon as you introduce oxygen again it just starts back up

[@williewonka6694]

From what I understand, Lithium EV batteries generate their own oxygen, so once that reaction starts, a blanket won't do much besides limit the spread for a time.

[@selrahc2061]

You use sand and blow it into the vehicle. Aircraft use that technique.

[@annoyedok321]

Windspeed day of the test?

[@baronimo]

Was wohl deutsche Feuerwehren dazu sagen?

[@enriquechacon1861]

Ich bin sicher, dass sie auch das Produkt getestet haben!! 🔥🚗🔥

[@Patrick-vt5gw]

www.kfv-segeberg.org/verband/einsatz/loeschdecke-e-auto/ Schön im Einsatz

[@Ken_1971]

Sehr gut geeignet um in Tiefgaragen, Parkhäusern und Tunneln brennende Fahrzeuge zu umhüllen und die Flammen zu ersticken und den extrem starken und giftigen Rauch einzudämmen ( übrigens auch für nicht Elektro Fahrzeuge geeignet ) Eigentlich ein perfektes Mittel für brennende Fahrzeuge, wo große Flammen aus dem Fahrzeug schlagen, welche umliegendes in Brand setzen könnten. Sicher keine finale Lösung um den Brand zu löschen, aber um die Schädigung der Umwelt einzudämmen und die unmittelbare Umbegebung des Brandherdes zu schützen. Die Decke könnte man nun noch von außen mit Wasser kühlen und damit Zeit gewinnen, um umherstehendes fortzuräumen bzw. das brennende Fahrzeug mittels Gabelstapler / Kran in einen mit Wasser gefüllten Metalcontainer zu versenken.

[@mattlm64]

How much toxic fumes were released to the local area for the sake of this video?

[@56Gumball]

Try the same operation on an extremely windy day. 😂

[@peterstephenson4935]

Try the same operation if it is parked between other cars in a car park also.

[@Cloppa2000]

So what happened in the end? Did the blanket ever work???

[@Johnnymahon218]

An explosion will blow the blanket away. Batteries usually explode.

[@rmdlgarcia]

So leave it covered for three days?

[@nunyabidnis5407]

So lets have tens of millions of these driving around. Imagine this catching fire in a garage under an apartment building. Oh, and Kamala wants all electric school buses.

[@jwalster9412]

Technically school busses would be safer than cars. Two reasons: A: because school buses are massive meaning the batteries will be inbound, and these busses are resistant to crash damage, meaning the batteries are never going to get damaged in a crash. B: there's an emergency exit every four meters on these busses, and the batteries will likely be insulated from the floor of the bus with heat resistant material.

[@BOCZO41]

What with toxic gases what is not burnt but go to atmosphere without a flame?

[@natf5869]

Totally safe. No carbon footprint here !

[@1HeatWalk]

What if it was windy that day?

[@theapostlesfoundation8749]

This is how powerful the KZbin is. I started seeing all these electric fires in EV vehicles more often on the KZbin ever since Elon Musk was ready to take over Twitter and wouldn’t back down. Now I’m seeing more of these electrical fires from EV Popping up on suggested videos to watch on the KZbin. Why is this happening suddenly? even videos that were done 2 and 3 years ago are now in the forefront of KZbin suggestive watch list, especially those that are Tesla vehicles. It seems like the KZbin is trying to put Tesla out of a business! There is no other reason for this! There is a war going on for your mind not to buy a Tesla or an electric vehicle at that. A fear mongering war to try to put Tesla at a business! I do not work for Tesla nor could probably ever get a job working for Tesla but I’m smart enough to see what I see and this what I see is trying to destroy our free speech by putting Tesla out of business. I’m not a fan of Elon Musk. I don’t believe in smoking marijuana or doing any kind of drugs whatsoever. But I do like the idea of Elon Musk giving us free speech back in a way to voice our own opinion. I’m just smart enough to know how that the media is controlling the narrative of everything these days.

[@granmabern5283]

Yes but the interesting thing is that GOD RULES and not « KZbin »... The TRUTH comes out, always, no matter what plotting is going on. And, God always wins in the end. Specifically, it’s not surprising if some manipulation is afoot, and your theory of it being caused by anti Elon players is interesting. It could also be fueled by oil magnates....just sayin’. Either way, true info is getting out. I don’t think it will drop Elon. If it slows down the insane gas prices before the economy collapses that would just be good. In Canada electric cars are back ordered for TWO YEARS. we need to keep driving and shipping food in the meantime! And, these videos can help people think about better safety measures for battery fires.

[@theunknowngamer5477]

Do you actually think we exist in a reality where our opinions have any value....we are ALLOWED to post/act/know... we are livestock. Our Masters are fair.

[@jwalster9412]

Honestly Tesla is already dying to its competitors. So many better options.

[@waynerussell6401]

@@jwalster9412 LOL! BEST SELLING CAR IN THE WORLD - TESLA MODEL Y.

[@jwalster9412]

@@waynerussell6401 proof?

[@hildacorea]

Wow!! So I can't burn leaves in the fall because of the environment but you can do this?

[@benwilson5893]

Burning leaves is not necessary. Developing ways to stop fires is.

[@kevinwillingham901]

Those things are downright dangerous

[@algonzalez7192]

How about water it down while cover?

[@bobkowalski7655]

The only way to extinguish lithium battery is to take away air but the moment you let air in again, it will catch fire.

[@beanapprentice1687]

false. the battery contains its own oxygen so it can feed its own fire.

[@vmobile890]

I store 2 electric bike batteries in metal tool box surrounded by zip bags of fine silica sand . Any other safer inexpensive storage ?

[@jwalster9412]

​@@vmobile890 use bubble wrap around them maybe?

[@dr.frankenstein5421]

What are you going to do if it's a bus? Get a bigger blanket?

[@JL-wf2wp]

I hope they have a larger blanket for the CyberTrash

[@tommychook4552]

seems the most practical way of dealing with it ?

[@conradsealy9603]

And this is the ONLY way a Nissan Leaf will catch fire. Someone has to put an open flame to the battery pack for minutes. Teslas catch fire by themselves.😅😅😅

[@jayasmrmore3687]

Lmao

[@waynerussell6401]

Over a million recalls in US in 2020 for ICE car fire faults.

[@BadRavenFPV]

And if it was windy??

[@goober2073]

At the 3 minute mark, Can anyone else see a face at the rear, looks like a girl

[@unverifiedbiotic]

Co

[@porbau]

El seguro contra incendios te cubre si se prende fuego ?

[@ajones8699]

What effect would spraying the blanket with a mist of water have.

[@Jestey6]

It would make it wet.

[@omoloni]

legend says in 2023 the temperature is still very hot

[@ruipedrovilarinho5560]

Glad i found you!

[@arniekando6846]

EV`s are 98% less likely to catch fire than ICE vehicles. these posts are really unintelligent..........This is insurance statistics