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  2. Plug-in electric vehicle fire - Wikipedia

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    Responding for the first time to a high-voltage battery electric vehicle fire, the firefighters first cooled the vehicle then moved it into a container which they then filled with water. [146] On September 3, 2021, a VW e-Golf caught fire in Dumbrăviţa, Romania. The firefighters used a container to submerge the car in water. [147]

  3. Lithium-ion batteries causing fires, dangers on California ...

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    For the record: 7:04 a.m. Oct. 28, 2024: An earlier version of this article said a lithium-ion battery fire occurred on Interstate 15 near Bakersfield.It was near Baker. For more than two days, a ...

  4. As Fires Burn, Private Firms and Personal Effort Step In ...

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    One private firefighter told Variety that "while his company might charge between $4,000-$5,000 per day for a small fleet for a client, a municipality will run closer to $20,000 for workers ...

  5. Health and environmental effects of battery electric cars

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    Some electric vehicle manufacturers, such as Tesla, claim that a lithium-ion battery that no longer fulfills the requirements of its intended use can be serviced by them directly, thereby lengthening its first-life. [69] Reused electric vehicle batteries can potentially supply 60-100% of the grid-scale lithium-ion energy storage by 2030. [70]

  6. Viral videos of EVs catching fire after Hurricane Helene ...

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    Florida officials said on Tuesday that they had since confirmed 16 lithium-ion-battery fires related to Hurricane Helene's storm surge, six of which were in EVs. Electric golf carts, e-bikes, and ...

  7. Palm (PDA) - Wikipedia

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    The Palm TX from 2005 An early model—the PalmPilot Personal. Palm is a now discontinued line of personal digital assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones developed by California-based Palm, Inc., originally called Palm Computing, Inc. Palm devices are often remembered as "the first wildly popular handheld computers," responsible for ushering in the smartphone era.

  8. Opinion: E-bike and e-scooter battery fires are killing ... - AOL

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    Solving complex fire and life safety problems demands a comprehensive approach that includes regulatory action for using and enforcing codes and standards. Opinion: E-bike and e-scooter battery ...

  9. Environmental impacts of lithium-ion batteries - Wikipedia

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    This type of battery is also referred to as a lithium-ion battery [1] and is most commonly used for electric vehicles and electronics. [1] The first type of lithium battery was created by the British chemist M. Stanley Whittingham in the early 1970s and used titanium and lithium as the electrodes.