[CoconutPilot]

I'm scared to think it, but I suspect we'll see battery powered buses and trucks banned from high security (ie airports) and valuable infrastructure (ie bridges, tunnels) over worries about the explosive potential of their lithium batteries.

The Proterra buses (company quoted in the original link) look to have 1000s of pounds of battery in a bus. Judging by the ferocity of a laptop/phone battery burning if the bus' batteries could be maliciously burned it would be an absolute inferno.

[upofadown]

Gasoline powered vehicles are allowed in those places and they do indeed turn into an absolute inferno when they combust. Heck, they even allow compressed natural gas vehicles in those sorts of places and they can actually explode.

If we are talking malicious, releasing any combustible gas in an enclosed area can cause a building levelling explosion.

As a culture, we have gotten used to life with super combustible stuff. Batteries might actually be a significant improvement.