Fire Destroyed Ford Super Duty - Lithium Battery to Blame?

[TruckElectric]

Probably won't see this spread across the news media......

https://www.dieselworldmag.com/diesel-news/diesel-news-melted-super-duty-cp4-recall-and-more/

Where’s The Super Duty?
A picture of a melted late model Super Duty went semi-viral on social media in the New Year, sending aluminum truck sceptics into a frenzy. To be sure, more than 80-percent of the truck’s body did melt away in the blaze. This has to be one of the gnarliest wrecks we’ve ever seen, but thankfully the owner was unharmed, as was his trailer and presumably the precious cargo inside (if there was any). The trailer was saved by arriving firefighters who immediately set to work extinguishing the flames. The sole surviving piece of contents from the truck’s interior was the owner’s Bible

 

[OneLapper]

Any idiot knows a 3500 (Ford, Ram, Chevy/GMC) is not lithium battery powered.

We don't need to do to Ford what they do to Tesla.

We're above that I hope.

 

[FutureBoy]

Where is the lithium battery angle? But yes, this will be another unreported ICE vehicle fire among the thousands of other ones that don't even raise an eyebrow anymore.

 

[TruckElectric]

Where is the lithium battery angle?

Sarcasm

 

[FutureBoy]

Where is the lithium battery angle?

Sarcasm

Watch it turn out that the fire started in the lithium battery of their toothbrush or cell phone. We'll never hear the end of that. As it is, I keep getting asked if I have any lithium batteries in my luggage when flying commercial. And for a while, there were multiple fires in some Samsung phones. But it's been a long time since I heard of any more such fires. Of course that could just mean that the news cycle has gotten bored with such stories and has stopped reporting them. After all, ICE engine fires are no longer reported.

 

[TruckElectric]

Any idiot knows a 3500 (Ford, Ram, Chevy/GMC) is not lithium battery powered.

It was sarcasm since you missed it.

We don't need to do to Ford what they do to Tesla.

Read above.

 

[Crissa]

Aluminum skeptics? Gnarliest? Have they never seen the results of a fire in a steel bodied vehicle? They usually burn to the ground, only a greasy spot remains, maybe a piece of the body that fell outward or didn't get full exposure to the interior plastics and oil burning.

-Crissa

 

[TruckDaddy]

https://www.crosstimbersgazette.com/2022/01/13/i-35w-shut-down-due-to-vehicle-fire/

An unnamed SUV. If this was a Tesla, it would make national news.

 

[TruckElectric]

Gas Car Fires Far More Common Than Electric Car Fires

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/01/16/gas-car-fires-far-more-common-than-electric-car-fires/

 

[WildhavenMI]

Probably won't see this spread across the news media......

The sole surviving piece of contents from the truck’s interior was the owner’s Bible

What is this, a chain email from my mother?

 

[TruckElectric]

What is this, a chain email from my mother?

Somehow I knew that last sentence would trigger someone.

 

[Rutrow]

Sarcasm

See "Poe's Law"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law