EV Explodes Injuring 23 people & Damaging 140 Cats
Yup. You gotta love that “clean” and “green” technology that can blow things up in millisecond with the simple push of a button.And hey – it only took EIGHT HOURS to put out the electric fire!!!! How great is that???Amazing how much death and destruction all of this electric/ wireless/radiation-emitting technology can cause.But — it’s conveeeeeeenient. And we’re “saving the earth” by using these noxious technologies.NOT.Source article here
Car in question was not being charged at time of explosion, firefighters sayBy Jung Min-hoA blaze caused by an electric vehicle battery that left some 140 cars damaged and 23 people hospitalized in Incheon on Thursday has raised safety concerns about lithium-ion batteries.According to the Incheon Fire Department, Friday, it took more than eight hours to put out the fire that started following an explosion of what appeared to be a Mercedes-Benz EQE model inside an underground parking lot of an apartment complex in the city’s Cheongna International City.As a result, 140 vehicles were destroyed or blackened and at least 23 people received hospital treatment for smoke inhalation. With a prolonged power outage caused by the fire, at least 121 people from 46 households were staying in temporary shelters set up at welfare centers near the apartment complex as of Friday morning.Surveillance footage showed smoke coming out of the vehicle before it suddenly burst into flames. The car was not being charged at the time of the explosion, according to firefighters…According to data from the National Fire Agency, the number of fires caused by electric vehicles has been on the rise in recent years, from just three in 2018 to 72 in 2023.[snip]Read full article here |
