Battery-Related Fire At GM Factory Zero Plant

A fire has broken out at the GM Factory Zero plant, formerly known as the GM Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant, tonight, December 19th.

The conflagration at the GM factory seems to have either started with a large cache of EV batteries or has been significantly worsened by the batteries catching fire after the blaze started elsewhere.
The GM Factory Zero fire is described as a “three-alarm fire call,” which is defined as a combustion large enough that three times the normal number of trucks, firefighters, and firefighting devices are dispatched to the scene compared to those sent to an ordinary fire. A two-alarm fire call is the largest that is sent to a normal fire, with three-alarm and higher calls reserved for “large-scale” blazes likely to take hours to extinguish. A 16-alarm fire in New York in 1995 involved over 700 firefighters to halt an inferno in a hotel complex.
https://gmauthority.com/blog/2023/12/breaking-battery-related-fire-at-gm-factory-zero-plant/

Totally safe to park these cars in your attached garage?
Is it ethical to produce these cars?
Use your own due diligence.
Your mileage definitely will vary.

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The GM plant started on fire because of poor safety practices, lack of training, and inability to adapt to new technologies technology.

@6tsp+1qbIBnsF
Follow the bread crumbs:
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GM blew up their EV plant and now all EVs are bad? What ever happened to, "it's on me?"

@5kmw+1qbIBnsF
“ just saw the child's rantings” - reality distortion field engaged!
Thank you for making the three-alarm EV battery fires disappear. We can finally move on.

GM person doesn't like new things. What's new? They say they're an intellectual, though, so you know they're right. No superiority issues there. Scrap all the EVs, basement Einstein has an essay on an anonymous layoff board. I wasn't going to post but just saw the child's rantings and felt compelled.

No One Wants Used EVs, Making New Ones a Tougher Sell Too
(Bloomberg) -- The shift away from cars with dirty combustion engines is running into a new hurdle: Drivers don’t want to buy used electric vehicles, and that’s undermining the market for new ones, too.
In the $1.2 trillion secondhand market, prices for battery-powered cars are falling faster than for their combustion-engine cousins. Buyers are shunning them due to a lack of subsidies, a desire to wait for better technology and continued shortfalls in charging infrastructures. A fierce price war sparked by Tesla Inc. and competitive Chinese models are further depressing values of new and used cars alike, threatening earnings at rivals like Volkswagen AG and Stellantis NV.
read more -> https://finance.yahoo.com/news/no-one-wants-used-evs-050011036.html

I wonder if someone could invalidate this information with a snarky comment. I read that snarky comments from neo-Marxists will actually warp reality, causing a rift in the space/time continuum. For example, see the comment below about the exploding phone. The phone wasn't punctured. It's weight is less than an ounce vs a three-ton EV battery. The person posting it was able to jedi-mind-trick their way into success. The fact that a punctured EV battery caused a 3-alarm fire was completely invalidated.
I come to thelayoff for the intellectual challenge. Witty intellectuals like the "So if you drop your cell phone" person really bring my mental prowess up a notch. Thanks!

So if you drop your cell phone do you lose your legs in the blast?

They need to move away from lithium and use another battery technology

Now they are blaming a forklift puncturing a battery:
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/fire-detroit-area-ev-plant-likely-caused-by-forklift-hitting-batteries-gm-2023-12-20/

What happens when a battery is cracked or punctured during a collision?
Based on this forklift accident, I'm guessing a very serious fire. Try to get information on this. I came up empty. I wonder why.

What happens when an EV is involved in an accident? “zero repairability" - watch those insurance rates go to the moon!
https://jalopnik.com/ev-battery-damage-minor-crash-car-totaled-recycling-1850243294

And what happens when vehicles end up weighing 2x, as EVs do in a collision? You are 40% more likely to die in that collision.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4M-59gVwys

And how is GM covering it's a--?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0r1mWla5wM

GM spokespeople, eager to shift blame said that the fire originated away from the batteries but after the fire was examined...

"All GM employees ‘safe’ after battery fire at Detroit EV plant
Tuesday blaze originates from lithium-ion batteries"
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2023/12/20/all-general-motors-employees-safe-after-fire-at-detroit-ev-plant/

GET THIS: "The Detroit Fire Department said it had been to the plant eight times since August."
Eight times!?!?!?!
Apparently, Zero Zero Zero isn't as safe as promised. I wonder if the second shift was able to work from home.

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