Heathrow - diesel, not electric car explodes

[RumbleOfThunder]

Anyone remember the Luton fire fiasco?

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Outlets reporting an EV fire causing chaos at Heathrow today, with zero evidence from what I can tell.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/complete-chaos-heath...

I wonder if this will turn out to be a diesel Rangie like last time.

[LivLL]

RumbleOfThunder said:

Anyone remember the Luton fire fiasco?

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Outlets reporting an EV fire causing chaos at Heathrow today, with zero evidence from what I can tell.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/complete-chaos-heath...

I wonder if this will turn out to be a diesel Rangie like last time.

Seems unlikely the was an exploding car, EV or other, all the roads are clear and there is no congestion at all looking on Google maps.

[Gareth79]

RumbleOfThunder said:

I wonder if this will turn out to be a diesel Rangie like last time.

LFB are saying it's diesel at least:
https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/he...

[LivLL]

Gareth79 said:

RumbleOfThunder said:

I wonder if this will turn out to be a diesel Rangie like last time.

LFB are saying it's diesel at least:
https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/he...

There we go, diesel. All done and dusted in 45 minutes, tunnel re-opened. If it was an EV it'd be closed still with the car being doused in water no doubt.

[RumbleOfThunder]

Yep they've tweeted the same now.

[RumbleOfThunder]

LivLL said:

Gareth79 said:

RumbleOfThunder said:

I wonder if this will turn out to be a diesel Rangie like last time.

LFB are saying it's diesel at least:
https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/he...

There we go, diesel. All done and dusted in 45 minutes, tunnel re-opened. If it was an EV it'd be closed still with the car being doused in water no doubt.

But it wasn't an EV though mate.

Edited by RumbleOfThunder on Monday 10th March 14:00

[Gareth79]

LivLL said:

Gareth79 said:

RumbleOfThunder said:

I wonder if this will turn out to be a diesel Rangie like last time.

LFB are saying it's diesel at least:
https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/he...

There we go, diesel. All done and dusted in 45 minutes, tunnel re-opened. If it was an EV it'd be closed still with the car being doused in water no doubt.

EV fires are far rarer though, something like a rate of 100x less?

[JimbobVFR]

RumbleOfThunder said:

But it wasn't a diesel though mate.

The fire brigade disagree.

[RumbleOfThunder]

I'm an idiot. Meant EV, not diesel.

[anonymous-user]

Gareth79 said:

LivLL said:

Gareth79 said:

RumbleOfThunder said:

I wonder if this will turn out to be a diesel Rangie like last time.

LFB are saying it's diesel at least:
https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/he...

There we go, diesel. All done and dusted in 45 minutes, tunnel re-opened. If it was an EV it'd be closed still with the car being doused in water no doubt.

EV fires are far rarer though, something like a rate of 100x less?

But don't you know...no car ever caught fire before EVs came along. Petrol is famously incombustible

[Zero Fuchs]

LivLL said:

Gareth79 said:

RumbleOfThunder said:

I wonder if this will turn out to be a diesel Rangie like last time.

LFB are saying it's diesel at least:
https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/he...

There we go, diesel. All done and dusted in 45 minutes, tunnel re-opened. If it was an EV it'd be closed still with the car being doused in water no doubt.

I've no idea why this is mentioned every time there's an ICE fire. You've got a greater chance of sharting in public or literally stting yourself than being inconvenienced by an EV fire.

Arguably a much greater inconvenience

[oyster]

Why does the thread title say electric car, even in quote marks?

[aeropilot]

JimbobVFR said:

RumbleOfThunder said:

But it wasn't a diesel though mate.

The fire brigade disagree.

So which tunnel is this which is near to Heathrow airport?

There is a single public access vehicle tunnel that is actually under Heathrow airport (plus several more that are not public access) but I can't think of a tunnel that is 'near' to Heathrow airport, unless this is LFB employing a 5 year old to do their SM posts of course?

[RumbleOfThunder]

oyster said:

Why does the thread title say electric car, even in quote marks?

That's the LBC headline I linked.

[vikingaero]

Rather than ban diesels or EV's, we should be banning Range Rovers!

[CraigyMc]

aeropilot said:

JimbobVFR said:

RumbleOfThunder said:

But it wasn't a diesel though mate.

The fire brigade disagree.

So which tunnel is this which is near to Heathrow airport?

There is a single public access vehicle tunnel that is actually under Heathrow airport (plus several more that are not public access) but I can't think of a tunnel that is 'near' to Heathrow airport, unless this is LFB employing a 5 year old to do their SM posts of course?

It looks like the tunnel road to T2 and T3 from this photo.

[4.7AMV8]

Makes me laugh when every vehicle fire is "EV car again"!
If it was that dangerous we would not be putting 20,000 liters of aviation fuel tank over a full electric driven truck chassis and parking it under a aircraft.

[CraigyMc]

4.7AMV8 said:

Makes me laugh when every vehicle fire is "EV car again"!
If it was that dangerous we would not be putting 20,000 liters of aviation fuel tank over a full electric driven truck chassis and parking it under a aircraft.

It's hard to put out an EV battery fire compared to petrol/diesel ones.
Combine that with a space like a tunnel or underground car park and it's a difficult mess to sort out even compared to deal;ing with 100l of petrol fire.

[4.7AMV8]

CraigyMc said:

4.7AMV8 said:

Makes me laugh when every vehicle fire is "EV car again"!
If it was that dangerous we would not be putting 20,000 liters of aviation fuel tank over a full electric driven truck chassis and parking it under a aircraft.

It's hard to put out an EV battery fire compared to petrol/diesel ones.
Combine that with a space like a tunnel or underground car park and it's a difficult mess to sort out even compared to deal;ing with 100l of petrol fire.

I dont disagree about being hard to put out when its on fire. But they dont litter our motoways or car parks with smouldering wrecks. Everyone as soon as they see a burning car, assumes its a EV one.