< Seoul Metropolitan Government Raises Electric Vehicle Phobia>

< Seoul Metropolitan Government Raises Electric Vehicle Phobia>

The Seoul Metropolitan Government recently announced that it will provide a 90% certification system for electric vehicle charging, saying that it is a countermeasure against the fire in the Incheon underground parking lot. It is a rebuttal from an automobile expert to come up with such a ridiculous policy. To sum up the video,

The fire accident in the Incheon parking lot was 1) caused by a fire in the Mercedes Benz EQE 350, and 2) caused a large fire due to the voluntary suspension of the sprinklers. Here

The first cause of fire is that Mercedes-Benz used a pouch-type battery from a near-missing company called Parasys, which thought it was the world’s No. 1 CATL battery cell in China,

It turned out that the second sprinkler failed to work, which was arbitrarily stopped by officials. Therefore, we need to educate emergency room managers about the sprinklers that are legally inaccessible and check the operation of the sprinklers.

Over the past decade, there have been 611 fires in underground parking lots, most of which have been ignited by gasoline cars (only 1.5 percent of registered electric cars out of 25.5 million) and most of them have been sprinklers.

In addition, contrary to general misunderstanding, electric vehicles are not particularly difficult to extinguish than internal combustion engine cars, according to the head of the Gyeonggi Fire and Disaster Headquarters. Initial extinguishment is not difficult, and it is only difficult for the remaining fire to remain for a long time afterward.

However, there is a certification system that only 90% of electric vehicles are charged without any effectiveness and scientific evidence. Then, should we inspect them when entering the parking lot? It is absurd where the evidence comes from that there is a fire risk if an electric vehicle is fully charged. Even if it is, it is necessary to force automakers to increase margins, does it make sense to leave it to users?

The EV battery itself already has a battery margin (88.8 kWh for Benz EQE when it’s actually 96 kWh battery). This unscientific, administrative expedient policy that stokes EV fears, it’s pathetic.