A search on Google using the term "electric school bus" yielded among other things, the following:
The prospect of a lithium ion battery fire immolating a busload of youngsters is truly horrifying. I think about my three grandsons aboard such a vehicle and it feels like my body temperature drops.
The variety of lithium ion battery that has been so widely reported in connection with fires is lithium ion cobalt. The danger presented by this particular composition is well known. There are other lithium ion chemistries however which reportedly do not present the same combustion hazard.
Although fire hazards are not mentioned (liability issues, I imagine), we read (reformatted to fit this screen) from the following URL:
https://electrek.co/2022/04/22/tesla-using-cobalt-free-lfp-batteries-in-half-new-cars-produced/
In drag car racing on racetracks, one reads of using nitroglycerin as an automotive fuel in internal combustion engines, but not on the streets. The so-called "nitro funny cars" get extreme acceleration from using a fuel which would not be street legal. You cannot go to your local Gulf station and fill up your tank with nitroglycerin. As much more power as "nitro" might offer, having explosions going off all over the place is not an acceptable price.
By the same token, lithium ion cobalt batteries should not be legal for street use vehicles either. Tesla has already begun moving away from that usage. If the transition away from lithium ion cobalt can be achieved, we need not have fires going off all over the place either.
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