A top Florida state official warned Thursday that firefighters have battled quite a few fires brought on by electrical car (EV) batteries waterlogged from Hurricane Ian.
EV batteries which have been waterlogged within the wake of the hurricane are susceptible to corrosion, which may result in surprising fires, in line with Jimmy Patronis, the state’s top monetary officer and fireplace marshal.
“There’s a ton of EVs disabled from Ian. As those batteries corrode, fires start,” Patronis tweeted Thursday. “That’s a new challenge that our firefighters haven’t faced before. At least on this kind of scale.”
“It takes special training and understanding of EVs to ensure these fires are put out quickly and safely,” he continued in a follow-up tweet. “Thanks to [North Collier Fire Rescue] for their hard work.”
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Patronis printed a video of firefighters in Naples, Florida, battling a fireplace began from a Tesla EV’s battery. A bystander is overheard within the video saying that the crew had used lots of of gallons of water making an attempt to place the hearth out.
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Last week, Hurricane Ian pummeled cities alongside Florida’s west coast together with Naples and Fort Myers, making landfall as a Category 4 storm. The hurricane precipitated greater than 100 deaths and over one million residents to lose energy.
It is unclear what number of EVs have been impacted or destroyed by the storm.
Firefighters try and put out a fireplace began from a waterlogged electrical car after Hurricane Ian slammed Florida’s west coast.
(Jimmy Patronis/Twitter)
Meanwhile, shoppers are more and more turning to EVs because the Biden administration continues to push a inexperienced transition involving zero-emission automobiles. Between April and June, EVs accounted for five.6% of latest automotive purchases within the U.S., up barely from the primary three months of 2022, in line with Kelley Blue Book.
Shortly after taking workplace, President Biden introduced a aim of guaranteeing that fifty% of latest automotive gross sales can be EVs by 2030.
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The Biden administration has additionally taken quite a few steps to incentivize Americans to shift to EVs. The president signed the Inflation Reduction Act, a invoice that included a provision that awards Americans a tax credit score value $7,500 per EV buy, into regulation in August, and the Department of Transportation has labored to create a federal EV freeway charging community.
However, critics have blasted the administration for giving a “false impression” about EVs, noting that they are costly and infrequently unreliable.
“[The EV push] is really kind of a con job,” Myron Ebell, the director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment, informed FOX Business in July. “It may be a good deal for some people in some places under some circumstances. But by-and-large right now, it’s not a good deal.”
