Rosenbauer offered to extinguish electric cars with a directed jet of water This is reported by the publication ArsTechnica.
The authors of the material noted that when extinguishing the battery of an electric vehicle, a large amount of water has to be consumed. So, when Tesla caught fire in April in Texas, firefighters extinguished the fire for four hours, spending about 30 thousand gallons of water (about 113 thousand liters) on this. According to experts, the local fire department spends so much water in a month, and an ordinary American homeowner – in two years. Low efficiency is due to the fact that firefighters usually extinguish cars from the top, while in electric cars the battery is at the bottom.
According to engineers at Rosenbauer, they have found a new safe way to extinguish electric cars. Their invention is a flat container with a fastening mechanism that must be placed under the bottom of a burning car. Then the device pierces the ignited battery with a special pin and begins to pump water through the nozzles directly into the battery.
As the company representatives noted, in order to cool the battery to a safe temperature, it takes up to a thousand gallons of water, or about 3.8 thousand liters.
At the end of April, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed the details of the death of two people in Tesla. According to him, during the accident that caused the fire, the autopilot on the car was turned off.