[jerf]

Ask your local fire department about putting fires out in battery-powered cars versus gasoline cars. Yes, there is a qualitative difference and it's not in favor of the battery-powered cars.

That's not to say that it's a stopper for them; it's just part of the cost/benefits analysis. The idea of technologies that are better on all parts of the cost/benefit analysis at once is a science fiction or video game concept. In the real world there's always a mixture of positives and negatives between two different technologies.

[red75prime]

If I'm not mistaken, a lithium battery grid-level energy storage firefighting protocol is "evacuate people and let it burn."

[ajross]

Same protocol for a burning pile of tires at your favorite bumrocks exurban service station, amusingly. Yet no one loses their shit on HN about that horrifyingly dangerous technology.

I give up. This is a proxy war for something else. No one seriously is scared of batteries in the way people here keep trying to justify.

[red75prime]

Why so sensitive? There are other battery chemistries (say, VRFB) that are less dangerous and that are less like tire fire.