Well its not just an amount of energy issue, its the fundamental way in which a lithium ion battery burns versus gasoline burns. Gasoline fires are really pretty simple to put out, douse with water to kill the flames and then keep spraying to cool surrounding materials. Litihium Ion batteries tend to burn in a thermal…

It wouldnt be a very hard implementation, but car fires are generally more contained and easier to put out. 10-30gal of gasoline isnt all that much to burn up in a fire

I guess the short answer would be to read the article, and appreciate the differences when there’s a fire?  

We had an incident like this a couple of years ago in town. The Model S allegedly had to dodge a wrong-way driver. The car exploded and it took the firefighters 15 minutes to free the passenger, because the batteries were popping off in the fire. The father of the driver said she would have lived had it been “any…

This isn’t hard. You never make the 911 electric. You do make a car that everyone thinks of as “the electric 911,” but you don’t *call it that,* and you sufficiently differentiate the styling.

As far as all cars being electric, I’m here to say that is a LONG way off. It’s hip and in the news now, but the financial realities have not been mentioned. The income disparity in the US will never produce this desired result. Many people can barely keep their junkers alive, let alone a $30k plus electric. Where do…

Mahindra F1 team

For years drivers have complained about not being able to follow or get close enough to and pass the car ahead because of the wash of air onto their car. This subject is one of F1’s 8 endlessly conversations, and when the FOM started planing to solve this problem everyone thought it was about air coming from the back…

Unless you’re talking about Diesel fuel that’s not really accurate. Gasoline will begin to evaporate rapidly at about 140 degrees. If you have a vehicle fire, and the tank is exposed to heat, the fuel will start to evaporate and escape out of your breather cap where the fuel filler is. That’s why it’s not as common to…

Obviously the TSA has not watched the movie “eXistenZ”, where teeth were used as projectiles in a weapon.

Good to know!

There is a good chance the dusting happened after the car left but the latent heat from either warming the car up or simply by the car being an insulating blanket of sorts caused no snow to accumulate in its shadow.

williams is team toothpaste... they didnt have their car ready in time for testing and started 2 days late.. they’re still waiting for some aero bits last i heard

On the contrary, when McLaren wins the 2019 championship, we can say “They were on FIRE since the beginning!!!”

Why would it be a morale killer? It’s a racing car.. Fire is something that while no one wants to have it happen, it is accepted that it COULD.. nothing to see here... too much gloom and doom already...

We used to call these 32nd trimester abortions. 

As an avid gamer and consumer of screen-based things, I’d much rather my kids be on a three-wheeler like that, then glued to screens at a young age.

Yeah, and the exploding Li-Ion batteries, and the driver airbag that did not deploy, clearly that happened because Lee did not read the user’s manual. Ralph Nader may have given us 8 years of W presidency, but a bunch of people like them would be really useful in this era of corporations using their customers as…

I know the Aventador has the mechanism, not sure about older lambos. And all modern supercars with exotic doors have that mechanism too.

How about it becomes relevant as fuck in case of a rollover? There lies the particularity with non-standard doors.