via Geoff Buys Cars, a short version of very regrettable and painful story.
BTW does anyone here know what to do when a phEV or a BEV ■■■■■ itself? What if it’s not yours and it’s parked it in a multi-storey car park?
Too busy running away from it to give a zb.
But hearing some horror stories that some of the things have electronic door release mechanisms which obviously fails at the same time that it all goes into meltdown down mode.
Similar to the idea of electric anti hijack door locks.Which means no chance of bystanders being able to extricate trapped or disabled occupants from outside.
About as safe as the nuke power station that fuels it.
If you can’t get out or someone outside can’t get in, it’s a death trap.
If a BEV or a phEV goes off, steer well clear - at least 100m upwind.
It’s like any car fire whether it’s battery or ICE vehicle, get out & stay out.
All electronic E-latches have a manual mechanical handle or pull cord, People don’t read the manual & have no idea where they are, Different manufacturers have them in different places & when something happens it’s not a time to be looking how to get out quickly, There was a chap who broke his ankle kicking the window of his Tesla model Y out when the manual pull cord was next to the e-latch button. Then they call them death traps, Stupid isn’t going away any time soon.
It’s the same with manual pulls for retracting the pin on the charging cable when the handshake between EV & public charger doesn’t go right, The amount of people who get stuck at public chargers with this fault is ridiculous, The manual pull to release the charging cable is under the bonnet, People need to read the bloody manual.
how do you get out of your car if it has an electric catch. im betting its not as easy as pulling one lever. so yeah death trap seems about right.