Chinese buildings ban electric vehicles, citing safety concerns. (www.rfa.org)

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[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 months ago

its moreso that EV firefighting is a bit different than gas vehicles. if an EV fire pops up in an heavily enclosed area (e.g underground parking lot), its be significantly harder to put it out. basically EV parking will likely be banned in these areas until Liion batteries get replaced by salt ion, solid state or alternative battery that is not flammable.

[-] Klause@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

It's literally in the article

China generally has high product safety standards on paper, but repeated failure to enforce such controls on the ground has sparked widespread mistrust of homegrown products, and a lack of official information often leads to panicked reactions among the public.

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

also in the article:

According to reports from China’s Huashang Daily and National Business Daily newspapers at the weekend, one five-star hotel in Hangzhou had banned electric vehicles from the basement parking lot, citing recent cases in which they have started fires.

“Based on the characteristics of electric vehicle fires and our hotel’s firefighting capabilities, we think it safer not to allow them into the underground garage,” the papers quoted the hotel’s security manager as saying.

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