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'It doesn’t catch fire': Why China’s "fireproof" sodium battery could be the breakthrough that makes EVs safer than ICE cars (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

First time I ever heard about guardrails having issues with EVs. Do you have a source for that?

Also the comment was about the fire risk, which the article was about.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    It affects more than the guardrail situation as well. Any collision with a car laden with extremely heavy batteries as low to the ground as possible has inertia and force that was not calculated into road safety systems originally.

    This can be corrected, but the first step is recognizing and accounting for it. Which seems to upset people for reasons I cant comprehend.

    But as the other guy said, the safest systems are the ones with the fewest cars on the road in general.

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