It’s also the go to excuse when getting called out when gaslighting someone.

They said alcohol, not ketamine

While being attacked by a nation who promised to defend you from attacks if you gave up your nukes.

There are others just like him everywhere. It’s depressing and overwhelming.

Pretty much ya.

… brilliant scientific minds in there and they should be allowed to usher in a new age of invention

Not specific to cars but it’s sad to think about what we could have had if we let these people build things properly. So many things don’t happen due to money. Inventions and knowledge getting bought and squashed as it’d interfere with the bigger companies plans etc.

Thanks! I’ve been following this for a very long time. I think the Lithium Iron Phosphate cells are going to be the best option we have for a long while in terms of fire risk/energy density/cost. Watching them improve over the years and make their way into more cars has been great.

My bet is they were just told it was a fire, i doubt the person to drive by and report it would have known it was an electric truck.

The batteries definitely do have fire protections, to help delay the spread. Dousing it with 50k gals of water may have prevented the spread to another compartment for all we know. For something as big and higher risk like a semi though maybe there’s a way to eject compartments. Like if a fire starts in Module 1 of 4, modules 2 to 4 can eject themselves further away. Then were only dealing with a 250kwh fire instead of a 1mwh fire. It would add weight though.

Edit: And then while the firefighters keep the flames at bay, something could get attached to the other compartments and be dragged further away.

The problem though is how do you do that in the middle of nowhere on the highway like in this case? We need something big enough and portable enough. They clearly didn’t have that for this fire.

The batteries (a battery is a bunch of cells) actually are made to be resistant. Be it firewalls between the cells, fuses, fire retardant, exhaust systems, BMS for thermal management etc.

The cells it’s just the nature of the chemistry and form.

The pouch cells used in many EVs are actually more fire prone than the cells used in a Tesla or Rivian. They are very easy to puncture, so in an accident or from manufacturing defects their fire risks are higher. They’re also larger in format and each cell contains more energy, resulting in a risk of more fire if something goes bad.

Prismatic and cylindrical cells are less fire prone and IMO should be the only choices. I wouldn’t be surprised if pouch cells were deemed unfit for vehicles far in the future, but probably not before the industry moves away from them naturally. Many have already announced moving away from pouch cells. One of the reasons they’re used in cars today is there was excess pouch manufacturing capacity compared to prismatic/cylindrical. The existing OEMs had to cobble together a battery supply chain with very few options.

Then the chemistry is important too. Lithium iron phosphate cells are more tolerant and less likely to have thermal runaway than the NCA or NMC (nickle coblat aluminum / nickle manganese cobalt), but their power density is lower, so you aren’t making long range vehicles (or semis with good range) today. LiPo cells are prismatic as well due to the nature of how they are made, so less fire risk from chemistry, and less risk from battery cell form.

Sodium Ion are even less likely, but it’ll be well over a decade before you make more than a commuter car with those, if ever. Toss them in a cheap to build car though and we can make a really great and cheap commuter vehicle in the near future.

Edit: more details.

You don’t hear about them because Western media doesn’t make as big a deal about them.

If you can throw the word Tesla or Elon on something it gets plastered everywhere, including here.

Same with recalls.

Tesla recalls something software related like the unbuckled seat belt chime not working if you do steps A B then C and its huge news. Within the next 2 weeks 5 or 6 other major OEMs do recalls and you barely hear about it. And yes, recalls happen in groups like that where other OEMs wait for someone to go first and take the bigger hit.

I don’t even think this is the right metric to use.

You aren’t putting a lithium battery fire out with water. You’re just keeping it at bay until the energy is all used up. The more energy, the longer it’ll take.

We might need new ways to deal with these fires, but it’s not like we can completely submerge a semi in water.

I wonder how encasing the object in a fire retardant foam would behave, although we gotta think about the toxicity of that too.

Edit: I wonder if you could even calculate the amount of water you’d need to hold it off upfront based off the battery size and current charge.

Once the straits are opened to all traffic, they’d just bring in more ships and need want it again.

Val shipLength = 200ft

Val frontOfShipLength = 200ft

How can they force that and not also force a fee to move it to a different wallet you own?

People change wallets all the time and putting a fee on that would be inexcusable

If it’s a networked game, but there’s no reason a offline game shouldn’t work other than incompetence.

Also since the NFT is the DRM the game could be available for download outside of the publishers purview, such as a public torrent site.

It’s not like the front fell off

You could sell the NFT and lose access to the game just like a disc

You wouldn’t be able to modify it as the nft would just allow you to download the game.

I think we have different definitions of “clips”

Are they worried people will bypass a speed limiter and go faster on the 1000w motor?

The prosecutor needs to convince the jury there was intent. Intent is one of the hardest things to prove beyond a reasonable doubt in court without evidence and motive. It’s not a guarantee especially with no history.

Edit: And in this case, a history means you’ve probably already been convicted as thats what the history would lead to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_pornography_depicting_minors

Section 1466A of Title 18, United States Code, makes it illegal for any person to knowingly produce, distribute, receive, or possess with intent to transfer or distribute visual representations, such as drawings, cartoons, or paintings that appear to depict minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and are deemed obscene.

Specifically: distribute, receive, or possess with intent to transfer or distribute visual representations

By the statute’s own terms, the law does not make all fictional child pornography illegal, only that found to be obscene or lacking in serious value. The mere possession of said images is not a violation of the law unless it can be proven that they were transmitted through a common carrier, such as the mail or the Internet, transported across state lines, or of an amount that showed intent to distribute.[135]

Edit: So it has to be 100% locally generated and never transmitted. You still wouldn’t want to try and fight this in court though, I’m sure they’d do their best to throw you in jail, or fabricate an intent to distribute if you’d made a lot, even with all the images you generated to try and get the images you actually wanted.

Edit: Also this is federal, there may be other state laws.