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It's like the article explains, like those batteries are easily damaged also and often total the car right away. Fire departments have to keep them a week under water in large containers until the chemical fires finally stop. That doesn't help any repairing those either.
nostr:npub1azknckv754uk29p35ydkes8gqv443ea8470jkqpauf2n6wl5kefq7wlv23 I have a Nissan Leaf. It has a relatively simple conventional car design with a simple enclosed battery. Nothing complex or dramatic.
If you keep lithium submerged in water, I kind of think that will make it catch on fire. I wonder how many times, the car in a bucket of water has actually been done? It strikes me as a fun and memorable story. Kind of a meme.
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Those battery fires are a chemical exothermic reaction because of overheating. Like Tesla's actually have a battery cooling system, besides heating in winter. I don't know about other EV's, but probably also. Once it starts, it keeps igniting because of the heat itself produces. They put them in containers with water to cool it and it may take a week or longer to finally quit igniting. See the example pictures from the Dutch fire department.
