One day after they celebrated the passage of the Connecticut Clean Air Act... After massive bus fire, CT pulls electric fleet from service
Two transit workers inhaled the incredibly toxic smoke from a lithium-ion battery fire, and one firefighter had heat exhaustion.
“Lithium ion battery fires are difficult to extinguish due to the thermal chemical process that produces great heat and continually reignites,” Hamden fire officials said.
The bus was not in service. It was delivered in December of 2021 and has been in use since January of this year.
Click thru for the image. It shows the bus engulfed in flames.
“There are approximately 800 buses that we are responsible for at the DOT that are being replaced with no-emissions electric models. They’re quieter, they emit no emissions and they last longer,” [Department of Transportation Commissioner Joe] Giulietti said Friday.
Except of course they don't "last longer" if they burst into flames after 7 months of use.
And all electric buses in use by the agency have been pulled from service. They don't say how many that is. (Hat tip to Don Surber.)
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