Firefighters used 11,000 gallons of water placing out the blaze and mentioned it was lucky the automobile was parked outdoors and never in a storage
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by Chris Chilton
August 8, 2023 at 06:22
Information tales about electrical automobile fires have gotten all too frequent, and whereas this newest story of a Chevy Bolt spontaneously combusting in Massachusetts gained’t seize as many headlines because the ship hearth in Europe considered attributable to a burning EV, it might have ended much more tragically due to its proximity to the proprietor’s home.
However the blaze may not have occurred in any respect if the Bolt had been repaired as a part of a recall introduced by GM in 2021 when it found that some EVs had been catching hearth as a consequence of defective batteries. The proprietor of the Bolt on this case advised reporters that the automobile had not been up to date. “That they had no batteries to offer us, so we had been ready,” she mentioned in an interview with WCVB Channel 5 Boston. GM initially introduced it might exchange the complete battery pack of each Bolt EV constructed between 2017 and 2022, however modified its stance this 12 months, saying sellers would now solely set up software program to observe the battery’s situation.
The truth that the automobile was parked outdoors gave emergency companies good entry to it once they had been known as out round 04.15 am to the home in Nice Hill Estates, Wareham. However extinguishing the blaze nonetheless become a mammoth job. Hearth crews managed to place out the preliminary hearth and continued to moist the automobile down, however the automobile’s lithium ion battery ignited once more half-hour later.
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In whole, the Wareham Hearth Division spent three hours on the scene and used 11,000 gallons (41,600 liters) of water to make sure the Bolt was now not a fireplace danger. The staff used a particular hose attachment that slides alongside the bottom beneath an EV’s flooring and cools the battery from under. The automobile had apparently already been charged and the proprietor confirmed that the 2021 Bolt was not plugged in on the time, so the hearth appears to have began spontaneously.
Happily, there have been no accidents, although that’s partly due to the Chevy being parked out on the driveway. “If this car had been parked in a storage the outcomes might have been disastrous,” Incident Commander Chief John Kelley mentioned.
