CRAZY UK plan to charge 190 ELECTRIC BUSES under 4000 APARTMENTS…! | MGUY Australia

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Good day everyone welcome back to the channel uh in this episode we’re going to look at something I mentioned in uh yesterday’s video link up here about the nine reasons why you shouldn’t buy an EV and one of those was related to the uh fire risk that I mentioned I was saying

That there was a a horrible um situation that you could envisage where uh an EV or multiple EVS caught far in the basement of a an apartment block or something like that and literally the day after I I recorded that I saw um this article um from the telegraph the

UK Telegraph which I’ll link down below um which kind of foreshadows that exact situation um so we’ll have a quick look at this and then I’ll talk a little bit about it here’s the headline electric bus station fire could turn high-rise homes into quotes volcano residents worn calls to scrap 1.7 billion development

In edgear driven by fears of thermal run away under Flats local residents are fighting to block plans to build an electric bus garage under development of thousands of new Flats amid fears battery fires could cause a volcano labor run Barnet council is in talks with Transport for London and developer

Balmore about the joint 1.7 billion pound project to build 25 tower blocks on top of a proposed underground electric bus depot in edgear town center however save our Edge wear a community group has warned that residents would be at severe risk from electric vehicle batteries igniting leading to explosive combustion and multi-vehicle fires

Absolutely right I mean can you imagine that buses will have batteries that are far larger than those in your regular electric car and they’re probably going to be all parked next to each other it’s just a recipe for disaster in May last year six electric buses would were

Destroyed in a bus garage in posa bar and the entire fleet taken out of service after one bus caught fire in the same month paris’s transport operator withdrew 149 electric buses made by bolard group’s blue bus from operation after two ignited on separate occasions damaged EV batteries pose a risk of

Thermal runaway where energy stored in the battery releases rapidly creating temperatures of up to 400° no 400 C no way more than that way more than that six times that 2500° c while electric vehicle fires are statistically rarer than petrol or diesel car fires they are a lot harder

To put out yes so this this thermal runaway thing that it mentions uh is where a battery becomes so hot that it uh self- sustains the combustion uh the combustion products uh cause the fire to continue it then spreads to the next cell and the next cell and the next cell

And it just gets hotter and hotter and hotter and it just ends in a massive fire which is extremely difficult to put out uh it says exactly that here firefighters are still testing the best ways to douse fires involving the lithium ion batteries present in many battery powered vehicles including

Placing the cars into water or covering them with foam or a large fire blanket check out my video here uh about the crazy extremes that the fire Fighters have got to go to to try and put these fires out because they are so hard to douse if you could imagine a whole bunch

Of these buses lined up in the in the underground car park and it says proximity to other electric vehicles risks the fire spreading government guidelines recommend electric cars with damaged batteries should be quarantined from other vehicles due to the risk of battery fires this is absolutely frightening homes for around 7,000

People and a rebuilt shopping center are planned for the 10 hectare site where the edge wear shopping center currently stands the plan also involves replacing an above ground bus garage with a brand new Depot for at least 190 electric buses beneath the 3,828 high-rise homes in coordination with Transport for London the buses

Would plug into the same power supply that serves the buildings above and recharge overnight oh sounds as safe as houses that does a freedom of information request to the London fire brigade revealed that there is no specific fire safety guidance for underground garages that charge electric buses brilliant and new to Zach

Spokesman for Save out Edge wear warned that a battery fire in the bus garage could result in grenfell on steroids and that residents were at severe risk that is a reference obviously to the grenfell tower um which caught fire due to this combustible cladding on the outside um

That was a complete Inferno I mean that’s just total Madness given what we know about lithium battery fires how to deal with them and in an enclosed space with 190 buses underground wow I wonder how many people would um sleep soundly in their beds knowing that that was below them every

Night and while they’re charging of course which increases the risk of uh a spontaneous um combustion of these batteries it’s just terrifying let me know in the comments if you had buy an apartment above a bus garage that was charging overnight 190 electric buses anyway that’s just about it for

This video uh thanks as always for watching uh you can send me tips uh via Instagram down here or via email up here and uh look forward to seeing you next one bye for now