An electric vehicle maker, General Motors, wants to make sure local first responders are prepared to deal with the crashes.As more and more people are making the switch to electric cars, naturally crashes involving EVs are increasing as well. One EV manufacturer, General Motors, wants to make sure local first responders are prepared to deal with them.
"We want them to understand that we have taken the approach to informing them on what we know about lithium-ion battery fires and lithium-ion battery systems and electric vehicle system in general," said McLaine. "Probably one of the biggest things to learn is its all a contained system. And really by cutting a simple 12-volt wire that’s marked in electric vehicles we can actually stop the system from being activated," said Davis.