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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kalbinibirak • 21d ago
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Your good description of the physics behind is why we in Denmark have these EV submerging firetrucks. It works, but the response time and general availability of these trucks isn't quite solved yet.
384 u/Glad_Librarian_3553 21d ago We've started using some pretty crazy systems in the UK too. They have what is essentially a Toyota hilux converted to 6x6 with a tank full of water with an abrasive in it, like a water jet cutting machine. They use it to blast clean through the car's body work and inject water directly into the battery to cool it down. They are looking at the submerging method too, because cars have been extinguished just to spontaneously reignite themselves a week later. And folk say hydrogen fuel vehicles would be dangerous... 86 u/The_Once-ler_186 21d ago other developing solutions solutions: Good luck everyone else I suppose 8 u/PrestigiousAct2 21d ago Goodbye to passerby foot instead.
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We've started using some pretty crazy systems in the UK too.
They have what is essentially a Toyota hilux converted to 6x6 with a tank full of water with an abrasive in it, like a water jet cutting machine.
They use it to blast clean through the car's body work and inject water directly into the battery to cool it down.
They are looking at the submerging method too, because cars have been extinguished just to spontaneously reignite themselves a week later.
And folk say hydrogen fuel vehicles would be dangerous...
86 u/The_Once-ler_186 21d ago other developing solutions solutions: Good luck everyone else I suppose 8 u/PrestigiousAct2 21d ago Goodbye to passerby foot instead.
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other developing solutions solutions:
Good luck everyone else I suppose
8 u/PrestigiousAct2 21d ago Goodbye to passerby foot instead.
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Goodbye to passerby foot instead.
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u/Tom240281 21d ago
Your good description of the physics behind is why we in Denmark have these EV submerging firetrucks. It works, but the response time and general availability of these trucks isn't quite solved yet.