It takes a lot more water to put out an electric car fire. I've seen numbers like 40 times as much, 20,000 gallons, etc. Fire departments might need to come up with new strategies to put the fires out. If I ever end up with an electric vehicle, it will never be parked in my garage. Hopefully the battery technology will improve.
When I was a teen, the people down the street bought a brand new 1965 Ford Galaxie 500. It was a very beautiful car - dark metallic blue with a black vinyl top and black interior. A coupe. One day, as I was walking to school and as I passed their house, I noticed the car sitting out at the curb and the garage door open. As I passed he garage, I looked inside and the front wall was was charred in the pattern of the front grille of a 1965 Ford. I looked at the car and the entire front end was now charred black. They got it replaced but not with an identical car. They got a rather mundane four-door, tan with a tan interior. I later had a '65 Galaxie 500 my grandparents gave me when they bought a '69 Chevy and I liked that car, in spite of its idiosyncrasies. I had it (along with my '59 Chevy) until January, '78 when some guy I graduated with backed out of a blind driveway in a utility pickup and totaled my Ford as I was driving by. I had just finished replacing the timing chain and gears in it about two weeks before that. The cam gear had nylon teeth on it and had worn out. See what I mean by idiosyncrasies? Doug
Isn't that true of almost any battery item, power tools, cell phones, lawn mowers, etc... all of them have and can catch on fire. Although, Yes a car battery being much larger I would think could be really bad catching on fire? But no one want's a fire of any kind. At some point we just get used to items and hope they have been made correctly. Other wise, all of our cell phones would be on chargers outside And it's not funny I know, I was in a house fire when I was young in high school. That was a deep fryer that exploded, and everyone in the family got out safe, thank goodness. And the difference, I don't own a EV or know anyone that does, it takes like 5-10 minutes to Fill a gas vehicle up, and many minutes to hours to do the same for an EV? I guess that's why the charging stations I have seen are by retail shops, at a public park, etc... so why you are doing something else, you can Recharge? I am gonna try and put a tiny charging station on my layout, me thinks? It's just different, and is the future, I think?
Mine was a '75 Kammback (Cargo Wagon) that sat higher in the back. Souped up, mags and fat tires. The tank was larger but shielded. People would stay back if I got in front of them. Of course they learned not to get in the way either. Oh I was a Non-Commissioned Officer. Not a Sir.
“I am gonna try and put a tiny charging station on my layout, me thinks? It's just different, and is the future, I think?” Yep, sorry we started drifting from modeling the charging stations. If you want to get ambitious, you might look at the Faller Car System. I saw a video once from Miniature Wunderland; where a program that controlled the vehicles would send the vehicles in for a recharge when they needed it. The vehicles just rolled up to a designated area and stopped. After charging was completed, they continued on there designated course. Great stuff!
Yeah I haven't looked yet, but me thinks I have some pumps left over from my Walthers Modern Gas Station, and the Electric one pictured in this thread looks similar to a Gas pump but Electric. I think I tried to paint the Black hose and screwed one of them up, so maybe paint it Green, and just in kind of a random area, like small park, might even put one in my yard as one of the engineer's for the locomotives drives an EV as a few others do And in N Scale who the heck can tell the difference from a distance I'm just waiting for the "Flux Capacitor" to be a real thing "Roads. where we are going, we don't need Roads"... Doc! Found the pumps and a few other items I can use from the kit Is this considered a Kit Bash as I have never done that before
