Extinguishing EV fires poses unique challenges
05 February 2024
When lithium ion batteries catch fire, they burn differently from internal combustion engines. Fighting those fires poses difficulties in vehicle fire suppression.
Effectively fighting any fire means understanding how the fire started. With vehicle fires, that largely means knowing the vehicle’s power source. There was a time when it was exclusively an internal combustion engine (ICE). The proliferation of electrified vehicles and equipment, however, has changed that — and introduced…
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