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On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:21:12 +0100
"Recliner" wrote:
the heavy batteries. And that's before we ponder the fire risk from a
quarter of a tonne of Li-ion batteries under the floor -- see this
staged reconstruction of what happens when a far smaller laptop
battery explodes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeWq6rWzChw

Mind you , to flip that on its head imagine the howls of fear and
indignation there would be if we all currently drove electric cars
and someone was now proposing to sell a car that ran with up to 50Kg
of a highly flammable and potentially explosive hydrocarbon liquid
sitting in a tank behind the back seat?

At least petrol doesn't spontaneously combust or overheat, and the fuel
tank is a lot smaller, lighter and easier to protect.