Wednesday, April 26, 2023

basement and multi-story parking structures, where regular fire trucks cannot enter, is where a lot of electric cars are going to cause incredible fires that burn for hours and can't be easily extinguished.... but someone in the Czech Republic has figured out that they needed to make a fire truck small enough to access parking garages


battery fires requiring up to 8000 gallons of water, in instances when first responders actually decided to put the fire out, in multi-level garage structures or basement garages is something that has to be figured out. 

it looks like this truck is up to the challenge.

The truck offers a payload of 6613 pounds, which is about triple that of a standard Hilux, and features a 12,346-pound gross vehicle weight rating. What's more, the truck is far more nimble off-road than most others and can travel easily over unpaved surfaces, while being light enough to not get bogged down on farmland due to its weight. With a height of 72.8 inches, it's also short enough to enter most garage structures. And it's just as effective for fighting internal-combustion vehicle fires, the company says, even though it is intended primarily for EV fires. 

The truck features the Coldcut Cobra system for fighting EV battery fires, which uses an abrasive suspended in water that can cut through the floor pan of an EV and inject water at a pressure of 300 bar (that's over 100 times the pressure of air in a car tire) into the battery module in case of a thermal runaway. This has the effect of cooling the battery inside the module and preventing the spread of a battery fire.

 The truck is currently undergoing testing in the Czech Republic, 

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