And SW Florida is having a tough time of it after Hurricane Ian. Florida firefighters face difficult battle while responding to electric car fires
Crews have been seen rushing to hose down electric cars that were damaged by Hurricane Ian in Southwest Florida.
Officials said the car batteries are catching fire and endangering everyone around them.
The last part comes from the fact that fumes from such a fire are very toxic. If you watch the news video, you will see that all of the firefighters working to put out these fires are wearing their breathing rigs/air tanks.
“A normal car fire we could put out with 500 to 700 gallons,” [Ed Angelotti, district chief of special operations for the Orlando Fire Department,] said. “These type of fires are taking what’s the whole package fire out and cooling down the batteries. You’re talking anywhere from 20, 30, 40,000 gallons of water.”
I don't know why people got convinced that EVs were good for the environment. And it is one thing to need 30K gallons of water in Florida, and another for places like West Texas or Arizona. (And yes I do know that Florida is perennially short of water. I lived there for a number of years. It isn't like it is in New Mexico or Arizona.)
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