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      01-11-2019, 10:44 PM   #42
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Thinking about these hypercars that have to deliver ever-increasing amounts of fuel into cylinders, it's not very surprising that we are seeing this with various different makes and models. Take a 200hp car and a 1000hp car, that 1000hp has to run massive pressure and fuel lines to deliver all that fuel into the cylinders at the rate necessary. It's similar to how you are not necessarily going to have a "safer" car with electrons, you are still storing energy and if the battery is compromised, a fire, just like a fuel fire, can ensue. With the petrol cars, a fitting coming off or failing is going to mean so much damn fuel coming out due to these crazy high HP engines that it's going to go bad real fast. Again, not very surprising. I wonder what kind of fail-safes they have if any, to shut off fuel flow.
Actually it's worse than that depending on the battery. A long time ago I was working for a company where one of the engineers got a grant to test hydrogen emissions from electric vehicles and to see in a home setting how high hydrogen levels can get during a charge cycle. We had this Ford Econoline van which had at on of batteries. The thing weighed about 4 tons unloaded. I drove the thing around till the batteries were near empty. Took it to the research house (it was an actual house in a real neighborhood). Pulled the van into the garage and then closed the door/sealed up the door. Started the charge cycle and then monitored the hydrogen levels. The van didn't even get to a 1/4 of the way through the charge cycle before we had to terminate the test due to the hydrogen levels approaching the lower explosive limit.
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