Putting out a fire in an internal-combustion car might take as little as 30 minutes and a few hundred gallons of water, he notes, while an electric car battery fire could take upwards of 4,000 ...

Meanwhile some major car companies, like Toyota and Honda, are investing in hydrogen technology. Experts at Toyota, which has battery electric vehicles, hybrids, plug-in hybrids and its own FCEVs ...

In 2022, of the 18,991 UK road vehicle fires, only 239 were battery-related. Though car fires are usually down ... The idea there is to vent the gases, e.g. hydrogen, that could combust, while ...