Quote Originally Posted by stefanvv View Post
of course it does. water has much simpler and less electricity conductive structure, like lack of metal ions for one.
If you took human vs water of the same size... Say an arm and a plastic pipe of the same shape filled with water and measured their conductivity, I'm pretty sure that the pipe would come out on top but I haven't read this experiment anywhere so I can't say for sure.

I am sure that you know that the greater the cable area, the lesser is the resistance and a car standing in water has an almost endless cable area. That's why resistance will for sure be less in the water than a human being.

... And we haven't even looked at the path electricity has to take to pass a human being. It would have to go through the water to the body shell, to one hand of the human, back out the other side of the the human, back to the body shell and to the other battery terminal.

That's, quite frankly, a ridiculous path for the electricity to take. It follows the path of least resistance so it would travel through the body shell where it can and and through water where it has to.

Only if you held one end of the terminal or something connected to it and the other terminal was submerged you would be the conductor... and why you would rip off one of the cables going to the motor generator unit and hold the live part while helping a rally car is beyond me.

I just can't see how anyone would get fried this way sorry. You also have all sorts of breakers, over current protectors, fuses etc etc that would give up long before anyone reached the rally car. If you design the battery case to be of high IP class and have internal fuses, as soon as the rest of the electrics would be shortened the fuses would give and the electrics would be dead. All the components would have to be pretty waterproof regardless due to water splashes etc etc.

So... nah, sorry, I just can't see how this would happen.