China’s Bonkers Solution to EV Fires, what could possibly go wrong?
Electric vehicle fires are a nightmare. Once the battery goes up, you don’t just need a hose you need Niagara Falls on standby. Some have been seen burning underwater. It’s the sort of problem Tesla or BYD doesn’t exactly plaster across billboards. And yet, it’s real enough that firefighters everywhere are quietly swearing under their breath. Now, with China EV battery ejection solution being tested, the world is watching with a mix of curiosity and disbelief.
Enter China. Their solution? Don’t fight the fire, eject it. Yes, engineers working with the China Vehicle Collision Repair Technical and Research Center have invented a system that literally blasts the smoking battery out of the side of the car, like a giant, flaming Pop-Tart.
What could possibly go wrong with that?
Footage making the rounds online shows an electric SUV casually ejecting its battery twenty feet across the test pad. In the lab, it looks vaguely clever. On the street? That’s another matter. Imagine you’re in traffic, and suddenly the EV beside you coughs up its lithium-ion guts directly under your car. Congratulations, you now own the world’s most expensive barbecue.
And that’s before you consider the collateral damage. A rogue 500kg battery sailing into a shop window? That’s a fireworks display nobody ordered. Or worse, taking out an innocent pedestrian at shin height. “Sorry mate, didn’t mean to decapitate you, my car was just feeling a bit warm.”
It’s one of those ideas that’s so mad, it almost deserves applause. Almost. But until someone can guarantee that a flaming brick won’t come flying through your living room window, I’d file this one under “back to the drawing board.” After all, the China EV battery ejection solution system might solve one problem, but it could easily create a dozen more.
As Jermey Clarkson may say “who wants to be hit in the face by a flaming fridge?”
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