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Originally Posted by frayedends
Disregarding the argument on eco friendliness of gas vs electric, the fact is Lithium batteries are prone to combust due to heat buildup in the battery. Even my iPhone overheats to the point of shutting down sometimes, for no apparent reason.
Gas explosion would take some sort of catastrophic failure for an explosion. There'd likely need to first be a leak that hits an ignition source, then the gas tank would likely have to melt to the point of spilling out fuel. A closed gas tank is not very conducive to combusting because there is not enough oxygen. The fumes in the tank are more often above the lower explosive limit (basically not enough O2 to combust). Of course these things can happen, but I'd bet when they do it's usually part of a crash and not spontaneous combustion.
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Has your phone combusted yet?
Lithium battery systems have safeguards built in too.
I would like to see a side by side, apples to apples comparison of the two. Are lithium vehicles truly more unstable than gasoline vehicles or is lithium just getting the attention now?
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