https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/13/24243982/50000-gallons
50,000 gallons.That’s how much water it took to extinguish the Tesla Semi that caught fire on a California highway last month, according to investigators. That’s the equivalent of one of those carbon-bolted steel tanks used in irrigation or wastewater. And its certainly a lot more than the 500 gallons that was needed to put out a Model S fire in 2018.
EV battery fires are such a concern that the Department of Transportation convened a whole-ass panel about it last month.
Probably true, although as a future-loving science nerd since childhood (along with many others), I can affirm that "building a prison for ourselves" was never part of OUR agenda. But the electronic-communication-everywhere, microchip-in-every-box, GMO, nano-pharma, etc reality of modern society DOES lend itself to a new kind of prison.