And you thought that laptop fire sucked...
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posted January 16th 2008 4:13PM
posted January 16th 2008 4:13PM
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Instead of giving out parking tickets UCR Police now just burn vehicles.
Had many a parking tickets there...
Well its highly unlikely to be the battery since they do NOT use Lithium Ion Batteries at all. They use Lead Acid ie the same battery thats under the hood of your car In fact there sealed GEL CELLS so they are even safer than the battery in your car right now. So whatever caused this fire its almost certainly not the battery back going nuclear.
I was on campus all day and didn't see that.. WTF?!?!?!?!!
Thats in front of the art's building... Crazy. How'd it happen?
"Just thinking about those little pieces of heaven, makes me wanna burn this mothaf@$#er down."
"C'mon Pookie, let's burn this mothaf#@#er down."
Battery made by Sony? :)
they're like, just let the mofo burn!
There are occasional battery fires, mostly from bad wiring -- that's probably what this was, since the GEM uses lead-acid batteries.
We don't hear much about the 250,000 vehicle fires a year in the U.S. resulting from the explosive material found in most vehicle fuel tanks. I'd say if gasoline cars weren't already approved, they'd never get the regulatory OK from state or federal motor vehicle safety agencies!
-- Felix Kramer, Founder, The California Cars Initiative (CalCars.org)
Where do you get your numbers? Annual average of 377,000 vehicle fires in 1996-98. In 1998, 29% of those had gasoline as the primary ignition source while electrical wiring was in 30%. Gasoline vehicle fires are usually caused by owner negligence as opposed to spontaneous combustion.
And yes, I am in the fuel business but am also an environmentalist. I dislike people that toss out numbers randomly or out of context in an attempt to make a point when the point can be made without deception or exaggeration.
Its a sony battery
Who killed the electric car?
Does it still retain it's Zero Emissions Vehicle status?
UCR REPRESENT!
hahahaa.
-_-
-ANDREW KIM!
Dude, you've obviously never over-charged a LiPo battery. Over-charging causes them to heat up quite quickly, boil, then burst into flames. Adversely, rapid discharge also has the same effects. For an explosion, cut one open and toss into water. Lithium being the "Li" in the name "LiPo" is highly reactive with water just as Potassium is. Just search for "Lipo fire" on YouTube, 'tard.
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Ignatius @ Jan 17th 2008 12:20AM
It was using outdated NiMH or Lithium Ion batteries.
Lithium ion polymer batteries that we currently use will not burst into flame if they are overheated.
Global Electric Motorcars (GEM) learned of this incident when a staff member visited this site for MAC news. GEM has contacted UC Riverside and will be sending an engineer to work with the University to investigate the incident.
Dave Gannon
Director of Service
Global Electric Motorcars
ohhhhh shit
(franticly runs outside)
damn that was mine
whats sad is I go to UCR and never even noticed...
oh well, most the people driving those are just lazy.
lmao, oh wait I have a gem nev in the garage. I'm going to go check my batteries real quick. Oh anyone in the market for a used nev?
Nice try joe...
"The fire caused relatively little damage, but the smoke it generated and the water used to extinguish it made a mess of the building and its inventory, Weideman said."
good factual comments once again.