New Tech: Shooting hot EV-batteries on pedestrians

https://gagadget.com/en/675870-chinese-engineers-have-proposed-shooting-off-electric-car-batteries-that-catch-fire/

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AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 27 pts · 348d

It has long been established that anybody not actually in the car is sacrificial

squaresinger@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 348d (1 reply)

Pedestrians, shop fronts, other cars, cyclists.

This is a horrible idea if you think about it for longer than 10 seconds.

betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 348d

And it doesn't protect the driver from the angry mob of friends and family of the person they just battery-bombed.

frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 348d (2 replies)

That will never catch on for many of the same reasons that replaceable EV battery packs haven't caught on. The mechanisms to make a high current load battery be removable have to be chonky. That's extra space and weight that could be used to add more battery, or just not have that weight.

psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 348d (1 reply)

And also, other car driver will not like having a hot explosive shot right under their car and burning them instead.

Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 348d

Yeah, should discard the 18650s individually. Grape shot approach.

veganpizza69@lemmy.vg · 7 pts · 348d

xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 6 pts · 348d

Yeeah. Let's... Let's not do that.

fubarx@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 348d

That thing really launched! All I saw were mangled ankles.

Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 348d

Why so powerful? And to the side?!? At least out the front/back is more likely to be clear road. Still terrible of course.

Why not use the sensors to alert the driver to evacuate instead?

Luffy879@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 348d

Kinda reminds me of the T-850 in Terminator 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPXHT8JDp5U