Electric Cars are not ready to replace gas-powered cars.
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Yep. Crack those batteries open and guess what its mostly acid. My mind spins in circle at all the shit that can go wrong smashing up that many batteries in a high speed wreck.
Makes me smile remembering the good old days when my dad was a volunteer fire fighter and the biggest thing they worried about when a car was on fire was the 5 mph bumper pistons causing the bumper to fly off and take out your knees. Now it might literally explode and throw acid on you. I think I'd rather have gas thrown on me. At least that goes out when you stop drop and roll. Your gear would save you. Battery acid... you're just fucked.
lithium.
acid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q2w1eTu9s4
Base acid... same diff. I'm not a chemistry major, although I know a little. When I think of battery acid I admit I think of old school lead acid batteries not the weird ass lithium kind. So I will change the wording to this.
Caustic chemicals. I'd rather have gasoline... hell BURNING gasoline thrown on me than caustic chemicals. Fire can be put out a dozen different ways and protective clothing like firemen wear helps. Chemicals just dissolve you into goop and very little you do/wear would help.
The point is those cars are designed in a way that they are just a chemical bath waiting to happen. Then again gasoline had a pretty rough start. Now we just take for granted how dangerous it really is.