Quote Originally Posted by mknight View Post
Yes I noticed that all the burning Polos (and Fabias before that) were easily extinquished.. just like Breen's C3 in Turkey last year.
You try to downplay a very real concern. What happens with a petrol car burning is just the fire. If you have a fire truck you extinguish it rather easily (of course it's a problem in the middle of the forest with a hand extinguisher). Even if you extinguish by water nothing serious happens. You can do that.

But if lithium-ion batteries start to burn just next to the fire truck it will probably won't make much difference to them burning in a remote place in the forest. Moreover if you try to extinguish it with water you will only add to the explosive power by adding hydrogen to the fire. If this happens somewhere in the forest it's much worse than with the petrol car because you can't effectively stop the fire from spreading until you cover all of that and the surroundings with a thick foam. For that you need very serious hardware. Something like airport fire trucks.

What is worst about that is that lithium-ion batteries like to start burning long time after they are damaged. This is what can never happen with petrol car. It can't simply start to burn in parc ferme in the middle of the night. The electric car can.