People kind of got a lot of stuff twisted in their heads about electric motors always being safer than internal combustion engines -- which, sure, there's good reasons for But there's no 100% safe way to store the same amount of potential energy in the same spacehttps://twitter.com/iridienne/status/1384023067286917121 …
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Like whether the energy is there as an electric battery or a tank full of gasoline, it's a large amount of energy that will make everything very hot if it escapes in an uncontrolled manner
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Well, yes, definitely. The thing about gasoline-powered cars is that the standards are such -- after DECADES of improvement, obviously -- that it is *virtually impossible* to make one actually catch fire under any kind of reasonable conditions (including in a crash).
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A huge amount of effort has gone into safety standards to make it virtually impossible for lithium-ion batteries at the scale used to power laptops and cell phones from catching fire (though some still slip through the cracks)
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But when a bunch of people started ordering hoverboards from overseas during that particular craze, with giant power packs put together by questionable small Chinese suppliers, you got spontaneous combustion all over the place
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I remember the local news trying to "find the pattern" in the outbreak of hoverboard fires and there wasn't one Sometimes they catch fire when you plug them in, sometimes when you unplug them, sometimes when you're using them, sometimes when they're just sitting there turned off
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