Seems a possible cover up, in that all I have seen is “authorities” saying, “we think it was a diesel car…” But there is footage of the car that started it and finding the original clip that includes the explosion is tricky, they seem to have cut the explosion out in the mainstream media versions of the clip. But from the original footage should be able to make out the number plate and from that a simple lookup of precise vehicle model. And as commentators have said the mode of the fire matched the position of that hybrid EV range rover types battery.
It seems likely at least one EV vehicle did catch fire, just due to probability of N in 100 vehicles on the road, and therefore parked in the car park, being electric. Actually I would say probability of an electric vehicle being parked in an airport car park is greater than that of EV’s on the road due to the socio-economic group of people that leave their frigging cars in airport car parks…
And elsewhere the thrust is saying, well statistically less ev fires than petrol vehicle fires, which is not really an apples and apples comparison as electric vehicles that catch fire are all newish vehicles whereas some petrol cars have been on the road for 50 or more years.
And the main point being how impossible EV fires are to put out, and how nasty they burn, explode, and then continues burning… and explode again etc. Apparently best solution is pick the whole EV car up and dump it, so it is fully submerged, in a 20X sized skip full of water! Going to want one of those israeli assault bulldozers to do that eh!
I guess it’s funny to think that a modern vehicle fire response truck could consist of an armoured-front wheeled-bulldozer towing a big skip of water… maybe I should patent the idea LOL No if it comes down to who thought of it first, if it saves lives and stops that real nasty pollution then have it for free! Do I need to do a sketch because people are so unimaginative? I guess there’s a lot of configurations of the idea, so probably a more specific vehicle lifter vehicle, given EV’s are so heavy, that is rolled off a small tank transporter and fill the skip up onsite from a fire truck. I guess you could use a bulldozer and have a ramp to push the car up into the water filled skip++
Yeah, the bulldozer could push the skip of water off back of low loader, then low-loader moves forward and deploys the bulldozer, thinking of like car-park access to only rear of electric car/van, going to need some spikes on the shovel to hook the car to drag it out into position before shoving it up the ramp into the skip of water. The hybrid introduces another problem, floating fuel on fire, so a lid on the skip to oxygen starve.
I thought large bin vans already kind of ideal as the mobile skip but there is an element of them being fuel propelled and how hot the water going to get and the floating fiery fuel problem of hybrids blowing up the bin van…
I guess fundamentally, sprinklers in the car park might have helped at least delay the thing so some action could be taken. Fire service recommending you stay in place eh! No! GTF out!