This is supposedly a EV battery ejection system to make battery fires easier to control. Pedestrians and cyclists had best say goodbye to their lower legs.
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Just wait till the car gets hacked and some one starts remotely erecting batteries.
Erecting?
I sat here for a good two minutes trying to find something witty and funny to say Finally all I really want to do is tell you that you used the wrong word.
Could be worse.
In my job they send a copy of all the health and safety stuff to each employee once a year. Part of that is something about fire safety.
For some reason they didn’t send me the German original version but the English translation instead.
In there it says that the fire safety officer alone is responsible for all erections.
We had a good laugh.
If you dig far enough Into Osha saftey documentation, you’ll find a page where they advocate the use of a saftey wench.
Yeah stupid auto correct. I’m just leaving it
Ok but what was it meant to be? Ejecting?
Fuck it if the car can erect its own batteries I think it’s overengineered
Yea! Shoot the burning battery right under the fuel tanker in the lane next to you!
If this becomes common, eventually there will be a chain reaction on a crowded grid-locked freeway.
It will work something like this:
Oh the huge manatee!
Oh, I thought you were referring to the Ford Nucleon…
That might have been safer than the OP concept.
My immediate thought was, why not use this to enable standardized quick-swappable batteries? Maybe not with quite as much ejection force though.
My first thought when it popped out the side of the car was “I wonder if I could surf that battery across the road…”
I thought this was antitheft at first lmao.
Imagine trying to steal a car and it just sweeps your legs.
I’m picturing a crew of emergency responders approaching. They all get taken out “in the name of safety”, and the rest decide to vote with the legs they still have and refuse to approach
RIP first responders.
Why not just make nonincendiary batteries…?
The fact that it’s a battery means that it’s incindiary
Are all batteries incendiary?
More or less. Batteries store electricity with a reversible chemical reaction, and one of those reactions is oxidation. It isn’t exactly true to say a battery generates electricity by burning its cathode, but because it requires elements that can readily oxidize with a lot of energy, it’s not tough for that oxidation to turn into fire if something goes wrong.
An incendiary is something designed to cause a fire and if that big ass battery catches fire enough that it needs a fucking ejection port then they clearly aren’t designing it enough to not cause a fire so close enough so far as I’m concerned. My phone’s lithium battery has never caught fire for example.
Just because your phone hasn’t caught fire doesn’t mean it can’t cause fire. If it’s a lithium battery then, by design, it is more of an incendiary than other types of batteries. Lithium batteries provide their own fuel, oxygen (it makes it) and energy. That’s why all lithium batteries (not just cars) are hard to put out.
I imagine you have criteria for what constitutes when it can become one, but I don’t think your phone battery will survive a car accident and then the subsequent burning of hundreds of other batteries burning right beside it. AFAIK, there are no protections for lithium batteries that make them fail safe, which is why there are restrictions on where they can be used or transported.
Oh I just got an idea how to be a billionaire!
How’s that
Another point: When those batteries get bad, don’t they blow up? And wouldn’t this make the battery jam in place?
If anything, the force will probably make it worse. Why not just kick the unstable, explosive battery that’s now stuck in place.
Dumb idea.
Yep. There is a lot of dumb in this design. I’d say some manager pissed his pants about his ass in an EV and demanded a solution… any solution.
this can’t go wrong.
a scared person hurting someone innocent? inconceivable with this device
That’s a total non starter. There is zero chance this ever gets implemented.
This totally won’t be abused in case of road rage, absolutely not.
Yarg ye sons of scallywags, fire the starboard cannons!
Im assuming this would only be an option for first responders.
Terrified 1%ers knowing they’ve got targets pasted on them.
Imagine driving in a tunnel or stopping next to s wall…
