Parking Lithium powered Equipment in the house or garage

[5030]

Hate to have to park a Kia outside these days, might not be there in the morning and the teens that swiped it might be dead from crashing it.

Get a standard transmission. Kids today only know PRNDL

 

[scootr]

Get a standard transmission. Kids today only know PRNDL

lol

 

[5030]

I have 2 more cogs, it's an RS turbo Focus. Pocket Rocket.

BTW, where did that neat signature picture you had go?

 

[scootr]

I have 2 more cogs, it's an RS turbo Focus. Pocket Rocket.

BTW, where did that neat signature picture you had go?

Me? I don't know if the glitch was on my end or TBN.
I think I lost it on the PC - it's on my phone... here's a pic of my dog Tag.

 

[MHarryE]

Our 1991 Ford Explorer was parked in our garage in 1997. My wife had used it to drive me to the airport the previous night for my weekly commute (working in Europe). When she went to the garage the next morning, she found this. Actually, she took the picture with it outside as she called 9-1-1 and the fire pa was quickly over, pushed it out of the garage and used bolt cutters to sever the battery cables. State Farm paid it as totaled. Several months later we got a recall from Ford warning us of a fire risk in the power door locks/power mirror switch area. Fortunately for my wife and daughter, the fire burned itself out due to lack of oxygen. We sent the recall to State Farm hoping they could recover part of the loss paid from Ford but alas, they said, not willing to accept blame for something they issued a recall.

 

[scootr]

I goggled EV burns house down.
Approximately 2 out 1000 EVs catch fire.
To date 62 people have died in Evs that burned when crashed.
I think the problem is not that they burn but the increased intensity (2500º vs 1500º for ICE vehicles) with which they burn and the difficulty in putting this fire out.

 

[2manyrocks]

My grandfather was one of the first to get a car. He parked it in a separate garage from the house. Maybe in the 1950s and 1960s, people started trusting them enough to keep them in attached garages? I could see someone not wanting to charge an EV anywhere near their house.

 

[ultrarunner]

Up to about after WWII a detached garage was the norm here… post WWII the tract housing boom on smaller lots changed that…

 

[TimberFarm]

I think this is another one, not the same as the previous one I posted.

Lincoln Recalls 142,734 MKCs Over Fire Risk; Ford Dealers to Install an Inline Fuse

A battery monitor sensor seems to be the culprit.

www.autoweek.com

 

[5030]

Considering how complex wiring is in modern cars and the likeability of mice to chew on the insulation, I can see electrical fires in any car or truck, not just EV's.

 

[ultrarunner]

I parked my service truck during pandemic and last night I had some pipe to thread and my vise and dies are in the truck…

Open the side door and signs of rats everywhere!

These must be city rats as truck is in the city…

 

[5030]

Considering how complex wiring is in modern cars and the likeability of mice to chew on the insulation, I can see electrical fires in any car or truck, not just EV's.

One thing I know for certain and that is, mice love to munch on the insulation on the wiring on my Kubota's. Not sure why, must taste good to them and I have to be real pro-active with putting scented dryer sheets in the cab and under the hoods and mouse bait as well. I have pretty good results with the Victor cubes.

 

[Jstpssng]

My grandfather was one of the first to get a car. He parked it in a separate garage from the house. Maybe in the 1950s and 1960s, people started trusting them enough to keep them in attached garages? I could see someone not wanting to charge an EV anywhere near their house.

I still don’t park my gas powered pickups near the house. If I ever get my garage built it will be at least 35 feet away from other buildings.

 

[ultrarunner]

I still don’t park my gas powered pickups near the house. If I ever get my garage built it will be at least 35 feet away from other buildings.

Back when cars had gravity fuel tanks it was standard to have garages distant from the home…

 

[5030]

I will always maintain that if the charger is properly constructed and can taper off the charge current to nil once the battery is charged, there is little danger in the battery combusting. I presume you do leave your laptop plugged in all the time and your cell phone plugged in far longer than 100% charge and they don't go up in smoke. Because the electronics that control the charge rate are of sufficient quality to control the charge and shut off when full.

 

[5030]

I would also presume all the E-bike fires in New York city can be attributed to poor charger quality as well. Seems as though every picture I saw of them, they were plugged in, except one and that one combusted because the electronics didn't monitor the output properly so it overheated and it went up in flames. You buy cheap, you get cheap and I bet all the BYB EV fires in China can be directly attributable to poor quality electronic monitoring.

While I'd never have an EV, I bet Tesla uses quality on board monitoring.