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Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Helene and Milton reveal an emerging challenge for first responders: EV batteries catching fire (grist.org)
submitted 1 week ago by solo to c/electricvehicles
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In a rare but growing threat, hurricane-related flooding can case electric vehicle batteries to short-circuit and catch fire.

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[–] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So we need to figure out how we can capitalize off of these inevitable fires, that's what I'm hearing

[–] houseofleft 4 points 1 week ago

What about a cap and trade market for battery fires?

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago

Marketing: Emergency warmth after a disaster!