China is Throwing Away Fields of Electric Cars - Letting them Rot!

holy fire from hell.

also near impossible to put out because it's a chemical fire.

it's almost like that scene in Idiocracy where they show the garbage avalanche in America's future, but this is in modern day china.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evMBPlBlUrs

@KEEPER: Yeah it's a good video that.... Clever too.

@KEEPER: Actually - the battery fires are a break down of the internal structure separating the electron rich plates, from the electron deficient plates, causing a neutralising of the charge in a very short time period, that burns like a big arc in an arc welder and than that burns out all the flammable elecrolyte, which blows out very hot flammable gas like a rocket engine - it's the electrical fire inside the battery - the arc welder going nuclear that cannot be extinguished.... AND it all happens very quickly, but the batteries - because there are hundreds of them, one ges nuclear and then 4 and then 4 and then 8 and then 16 and then 32 and then 64 and then 128, then 256 and then 512, and then 1024 and then 2048 - "sort of" that is why the fires start off with a "pop and a fizz and apuff of smoke" and then the batteries overheating cascase through the bank and then the fire flares up REALLY quickly.... There is also the issue of the cars - how much were they charged up and how long do the batteries hold their charge for? Flat batteries don't fire up... The first rule of dealing with puffing up batteries is to discharge them - turn your lap top on full and run the battery flat.... then pull it out.

@KEEPER: I have also noticed that regular AA / AAA battery chargers, are a little bit sloppy in regards to charging voltages and charging times... BUT the lithium ion battery chargers have VERY VERY tight tolerances in terms of voltage that is applied to the battery - numbers out of my arse - say the battery is a 5V maximum voltage output battery, then the chargers will only put in 5.05V as a charging voltage... so the battery cannot slowly overheat and then burst into flames... and battery chargers marked as lithium battery chargers have precision kinds of controls and circuitry for charging the lithium batteries. This is why I decided to not make one of my regular transformer type battery chargers, to charge up the lithium - the manufacturers would not be going to such great lengths to make them with all the extra protections and controls, because of the inherent dangers, if the batteries are improperly charged...