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DoubleO7

DoubleO7

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Your Stellantis Ram truck that is.

The company is recommending you park it outside, away from anything you do not want destroyed by fire.

And it is NOT an EV.

Golly, they been building liquid fuel vehicles for 125 years now and can't build one that won't catch fire yet.

Burning Goats
 
Yup. An electrical connector can overheat
and catch fire. High amperage electrical
components and connections can do that.
 
Yes, due to an electrical relay. Good thing EVs do not
have relays..now I can sleep better tonight
 
Had that discussion at lunch today. Id rather take my chances with an EV cooking off than a liquid fueler going poof. Had 2 smoke in the cabin incidents in my
flying days. One was electrical in the cabin put out by flipping main breaker. The other was on the ground where engine was over fueled and backfired on a cold
start. Gets your attention.
 
(quoted from post at 02:47:14 02/16/23) 1990s Ford pickups had a problem with ignition switch fires.
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Yup I love it when people act like vehicles catching fire is something new or unique to EV's.

I mean, haven't you watched an episode of Chips? The episodes always end with Ponch and John chasing the bad guys down the highway, when the bad guys' car inexplicably ramps over another car, flips several times, and explodes in a mushroom cloud. Then the bad guys crawl out completely unscathed where Ponch and John are waiting for them with handcuffs.
 
(quoted from post at 18:39:54 02/15/23) Had that discussion at lunch today. Id rather take my chances with an EV cooking off than a liquid fueler going poof. Had 2 smoke in the cabin incidents in my
flying days. One was electrical in the cabin put out by flipping main breaker. The other was on the ground where engine was over fueled and backfired on a cold
start. Gets your attention.
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Back in my USAF days, I watched an F-15 taxi toward the runway. All of a sudden I heard the engines shut down, canopy came open and the pilot came out, slid down the side of the plane and hit the ground running. Smoke was boiling out of the cockpit and the crash truck was on the spot in a hurry. Lucky that was the end of it with no more further damage.
 
Our neighbor's Dodge pickup burned in his driveway a couple years ago. The interior was fully engulfed by the time I saw it and called the fire dept. There's a LOT of smoke in a 4 door truck.
 
When I was TDY to Spain during the Cuban Crises, we were keeping KC=135's in the air re-fueling B-52's
in the air. The United States had given Spanish Air Force some F-86's. They used same parking area we
did only away from us, one day they had one running at edge of parking area, and there was a lot of
dry weeds behind it, I was on flight line working on a 135 and heard a boom and saw they had set
everything on fire, they ran from it also. Gene
 
I watched some of the Daytona 24 hour race. They have some electric, or hybrid anyhow, vehicle classes now. The differences were pretty amazing. Have to look at a
light on the side of it, if it isnt green you cant touch the car. Fire fighting them is quite different, fortunately I dont think any burst into flames. Didnt look like they could
repair them, the ones that died just got pushed off to the side - if the light on the side was green - and everyone just shrugged instead of repairing, as it could be any of
thousands of wires. Im sure some of it was growing pains as with anything new, but it was pretty clear that class wasnt racing to go fast, just on the track hoping they
would be the one that didnt break....

Paul
 
(quoted from post at 15:49:48 02/16/23) I watched some of the Daytona 24 hour race. They have some electric, or hybrid anyhow, vehicle classes now. The differences were pretty amazing. Have to look at a
light on the side of it, if it isnt green you cant touch the car. Fire fighting them is quite different, fortunately I dont think any burst into flames. Didnt look like they could
repair them, the ones that died just got pushed off to the side - if the light on the side was green - and everyone just shrugged instead of repairing, as it could be any of
thousands of wires. Im sure some of it was growing pains as with anything new, but it was pretty clear that class wasnt racing to go fast, just on the track hoping they
would be the one that didnt break....

That's strange. At the drag races for the most part the ICEs are nowhere near close to the EVs.

Paul
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(quoted from post at 15:49:48 02/16/23) I watched some of the Daytona 24 hour race. They have some electric, or hybrid anyhow, vehicle classes now. The differences were pretty amazing. Have to look at a
light on the side of it, if it isnt green you cant touch the car. Fire fighting them is quite different, fortunately I dont think any burst into flames. Didnt look like they could
repair them, the ones that died just got pushed off to the side - if the light on the side was green - and everyone just shrugged instead of repairing, as it could be any of
thousands of wires. Im sure some of it was growing pains as with anything new, but it was pretty clear that class wasnt racing to go fast, just on the track hoping they
would be the one that didnt break....
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So you watched every car for the entire 24 hours and know this all for a fact? Not one EV got repaired during the entire race? I find that hard to believe.

See, the folks that go out on the track are not the people that work on the cars. They can't, and won't, fix even a crooked mirror no matter what the cars are fueled by. Their job is to keep the track clear and safe for the other drivers.
 
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