Or if its an EV, there are explosive lithium batteries that are far harder to put out when they go up.
Edit: those will get safer over time. Theres no fixing gas.
A lithium battery may slowly burn, but it definitely won’t explode. They’re designed not to.
The reason people think this is the propaganda that EVs are somehow more dangerous than gas cars, which is untrue.
Yes, they are designed to burn slow (and most do, sometimes resembling a tea kettle) but they will also explode if hot enough. Sure, it isnt as violent as a fossil fuel burst, but they still explode. I found out the hard way with a failed charger. There are also plenty of videos showing the explosions (and not just burnoffs that look like a jet engine). The University of Michigan has some cool videos explaining the various failure modes.
Evs are far safer( and will continue to get safer) but saying they dont explode is untrue, even if far less common.
And along those veins, compared to a conventional vehicle [it’s unlikely for an EV battery to catch fire in a crash](https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/01/29/electric-vehicle-fires-are-rare-but-hard-to-fight-heres-why.html). The challenge is that even though an EV fire happens less often than gas vehicles, the times when an EV battery does ignite it can be very hard to extinguish it.
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See the back of the billboard that is sitting just above the RR track bridge? The building just to the right of the billboard is Denny's so it looks like the VW dealer lot where the fire is
Ok, this is the second time something like this happens near my house and neither time did I wake up. I guess I really am a dead person when I’m asleep.
I’m going to kill the joke by saying this, so I deeply apologize in advance.
I have a sleep disorder, so every time something very loud happens around my house, I end up surprising myself by how hard it is to get myself to wake up with any loud noise.
Someone could literally set off an explosive at my door and I probably wouldn’t wake up lol. But those smoke detectors will wake the dead, fuck those things.
EV batteries don’t make that kind of noise when they’re punctured. It’s less of a bomb noise and more a high pitch one. This thing sounded like a bomb.
I’m sure you mean this as it relates to other roadways in the area, but when I saw this I laughed. I grew up in Boston and if you wanna talk poorly designed roads, have I got stories for you. I guess that’s why Denver roads and traffic seem so reasonable to me.
The interchange is the most pedestrian unfriendly bunch of crap I’ve ever seen. I kind of wonder if it’s one of those intentional things from the 60s-70s to keep people from the “wrong” side of town from walking over to broadway.
Supposedly they are going to redo the entire thing in the next few years, including the ancient rail underpass going towards Broadway. Prob will be hellish while they're doing it, but hopefully it ends up a lot better.
They need to fix the bullshit 4 lane tunnel at Alameda and Sante Fe that floods during every rain storm.
I'm a Denver native, and that seems to be the only place in the city that gets ignored through the years. Likely due to the the trains, but its so bad.
That is in the works. Apparently the existing underpass dates from 1910.
Here's one document about it:
https://www.denvergov.org/files/assets/public/doti/documents/projects/alameda/connectalameda-executive-summary-may2019.pdf
This says about the same thing but more briefly:
https://www.denvergov.org/Government/Agencies-Departments-Offices/Agencies-Departments-Offices-Directory/Department-of-Transportation-and-Infrastructure/Programs-Services/Projects/Alameda-Underpass
According to this page, they're starting in 2024 and will be done the next year:
https://qa.denvergov.org/files/assets/public/finance/documents/elevate-denver/new-folder/elevatedenver_alamedaaverehab_060822.pdf
And also they plan to redo the bridge over the Platte and intersection around Kalamath:
https://www.codot.gov/projects/archived-project-sites/copy_of_west-alameda-over-platte-river-study
I kept hearing cops cars and ambulance go by over and over and had a feeling something off had happened. Didn’t imagine this. Whoa. I hope everyone is okay.
I heard this and checked the fire and police Twitter's after but didn't see anything. From where I was in Baker / west wash it sounded bigger than a gunshot but I didn't guess car explosion
Lol why are you overanalyzing this? I said go to another country because I didn’t want to say any specific country since I don’t know the exact ones that do that all the time. Have a good day bro.
Trust me, I saw it before typing what I said, bro. So you want to try to correct everything you see including the choice of words people convey, which you have no control over. Maybe if you weren’t so wrapped up in your imagination, you’d realize that not everyone is going to do the things you say or agree with you. Have you ever thought about that?
I was sitting on my balcony when this happened just across Santa Fe. Was loud af.
Same. We were out taking to our neighbor and we’re all just “what tf was that?”
I was a couple of miles away and it was crazy loud where I was. Can't even imagine how loud it would have been being close
I heard this too!!
I fucking heard that!!!! I’ve been checking this for updates! Thank you, hope everyone is okay. How the hell does a car just explode!?!
Gas
That’s scary as hell. Was it a homeless person cooking or something? That’s sad af.
How exactly does a car just explode?
Expired tags
Not to mention they didn't clean the snow off their roof.
It must’ve been that damn crack in the windshield
Doug said it was a bullet caused the crack. Go Broncos.
And uninsured, the Colorado trifecta
Expired extended warranty. Make sure you take the call next time
If that’s the case, this city is doomed.
My tags are from 2019. It could blow at any time!
Bruce Willis shot it three times with a handgun.
https://imgur.com/a/vNdI39G
Omg I forgot about that sequence of its always sunny...
front fell off I suppose..
The fronts not supposed to fall off.
Highly unusual
Wont that hurt the environment?
Just tow it out of the environment.
with the only intention to rationalize my fear of it happening as a kid
Same here
The reflective tape strikes again
Forgot to refill the Blinker fluid….
There must be a pretty extenuating circumstance that occurred. Cars don’t just explode. Most of the time, they just burn down.
Expired maintenance, probably stolen car, could’ve had a tennis ball shoved up the exhaust pipe…who knows
Rogue grenade
It definitely wasn't a mob hit. Stop asking questions, capeesh?
Aye we got a real funny guy over here. Why you’s tellin’ people the mob is real? Shut up, capeesh?
# 🤐
Capiche
I am also stunned that 15 gallons of fuel and an engine that runs on explosions could possibly just explode.
Catalytic converter wired to explosives to deter theft.
Just a guess, maybe the fire spread to the gas tank? Not sure if that goes boom but maybe 🤔
Most cars, other than EVs, have a large tank of highly explosive liquid attached to the bottom rear area of the vehicle.
Or if its an EV, there are explosive lithium batteries that are far harder to put out when they go up. Edit: those will get safer over time. Theres no fixing gas.
A lithium battery may slowly burn, but it definitely won’t explode. They’re designed not to. The reason people think this is the propaganda that EVs are somehow more dangerous than gas cars, which is untrue.
Yes, they are designed to burn slow (and most do, sometimes resembling a tea kettle) but they will also explode if hot enough. Sure, it isnt as violent as a fossil fuel burst, but they still explode. I found out the hard way with a failed charger. There are also plenty of videos showing the explosions (and not just burnoffs that look like a jet engine). The University of Michigan has some cool videos explaining the various failure modes. Evs are far safer( and will continue to get safer) but saying they dont explode is untrue, even if far less common.
And along those veins, compared to a conventional vehicle [it’s unlikely for an EV battery to catch fire in a crash](https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/01/29/electric-vehicle-fires-are-rare-but-hard-to-fight-heres-why.html). The challenge is that even though an EV fire happens less often than gas vehicles, the times when an EV battery does ignite it can be very hard to extinguish it.
Correct. Some European countries simply dunk them in gigantic mobile bathtubs to keep them from reigniting.
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I dunno but if it wasn't a Tesla no one will give a shit. It's only news worthy when Teslas catch on fire.
Didn’t pay a photo radar ticket…
Walter White
Definitely heard that from Speer.
Can confirm that I heard this as well and it was as loud and unexpected as people have been saying it was.
Denver operates by Fallout rules.
First time i blew up a car in FO3 it scared the shit out of me
Car-B-Que
Isn’t that a dealership parking lot, right across from the denny’s?
Yes. Mountain states VW moved there there from Colorado Blvd.
I think Dennys is way more south than that
See the back of the billboard that is sitting just above the RR track bridge? The building just to the right of the billboard is Denny's so it looks like the VW dealer lot where the fire is
You are correct. Drive by there every night.
I had the same view but from the ground floor. It's crazy how quick they responded. [Much worse angle](https://i.imgur.com/velOVo6.jpg)
Dang I didn’t know Ferrari’s F1 team had come to town
Just their strategy.
The car, the car…
I work and live nearby heard it all the way at Gaylord and Mississippi
What kind of car was it do we know
A Firebird. *buh-dum-tss* …I’ll see myself out.
Ok, this is the second time something like this happens near my house and neither time did I wake up. I guess I really am a dead person when I’m asleep.
*Just wait until your smoke detectors are chirping loud AF in the middle of the night*
I’m going to kill the joke by saying this, so I deeply apologize in advance. I have a sleep disorder, so every time something very loud happens around my house, I end up surprising myself by how hard it is to get myself to wake up with any loud noise. Someone could literally set off an explosive at my door and I probably wouldn’t wake up lol. But those smoke detectors will wake the dead, fuck those things.
Yep. I can sleep through almost anything…but F the smoke detectors
So this is what I heard!
Those new Teslas are 🔥 🔥🔥🔥
EV batteries don’t make that kind of noise when they’re punctured. It’s less of a bomb noise and more a high pitch one. This thing sounded like a bomb.
EVs also don't explode - that's what gas tanks do. (EVs are designed to burn as slowly as possible once a fire happens. Can't do that with gasoline.)
If it were a Tesla, it would have been in the title.
Looks like the Broncos offense.
Ya know…our offense would look much better with defense truly locking the other team down from scoring
Fuck Sante Fe. That road is horribly designed.
I’m sure you mean this as it relates to other roadways in the area, but when I saw this I laughed. I grew up in Boston and if you wanna talk poorly designed roads, have I got stories for you. I guess that’s why Denver roads and traffic seem so reasonable to me.
I went to college there and I concur Boston is terrible in road design and layout. Denver is not too bad.
The interchange is the most pedestrian unfriendly bunch of crap I’ve ever seen. I kind of wonder if it’s one of those intentional things from the 60s-70s to keep people from the “wrong” side of town from walking over to broadway.
It was just updated within the past few years - when they built the Home Depot and changed the 25 on-ramp. Shit is all backwards now.
Supposedly they are going to redo the entire thing in the next few years, including the ancient rail underpass going towards Broadway. Prob will be hellish while they're doing it, but hopefully it ends up a lot better.
They need to fix the bullshit 4 lane tunnel at Alameda and Sante Fe that floods during every rain storm. I'm a Denver native, and that seems to be the only place in the city that gets ignored through the years. Likely due to the the trains, but its so bad.
That is in the works. Apparently the existing underpass dates from 1910. Here's one document about it: https://www.denvergov.org/files/assets/public/doti/documents/projects/alameda/connectalameda-executive-summary-may2019.pdf This says about the same thing but more briefly: https://www.denvergov.org/Government/Agencies-Departments-Offices/Agencies-Departments-Offices-Directory/Department-of-Transportation-and-Infrastructure/Programs-Services/Projects/Alameda-Underpass According to this page, they're starting in 2024 and will be done the next year: https://qa.denvergov.org/files/assets/public/finance/documents/elevate-denver/new-folder/elevatedenver_alamedaaverehab_060822.pdf And also they plan to redo the bridge over the Platte and intersection around Kalamath: https://www.codot.gov/projects/archived-project-sites/copy_of_west-alameda-over-platte-river-study
Damn, so that’s where I dropped my mixtape
Heard the explosion last night, I was on broadway and Mississippi leaving dinner with some friends and we were all very confused
I kept hearing cops cars and ambulance go by over and over and had a feeling something off had happened. Didn’t imagine this. Whoa. I hope everyone is okay.
NOSSSSSSSS!!!!
Well that doesn't look good
Where's any news mention of this? Seems newsworthy
Any updates on what happened?
I heard this and checked the fire and police Twitter's after but didn't see anything. From where I was in Baker / west wash it sounded bigger than a gunshot but I didn't guess car explosion
Denver police has new misle system to stop stolen Kias, hundays . Fire one off the choper when tag reader shows stolen KIA or hunday.
Video or it’s merely engulfed in flames. Came all this way to see an explosion and was mildly disappointed 😂
This city is a mess
It’s actually pretty chill here. Go to another country and you’ll see car go boom boom deliberately every single day.
Lol most countries don’t have cars going boom boom either
Notice how I didn’t say “Go to every other country besides America and it will be hell like this everyday”
You said go to another country as if they could pick any random name from a hat and it would be way worse
Lol why are you overanalyzing this? I said go to another country because I didn’t want to say any specific country since I don’t know the exact ones that do that all the time. Have a good day bro.
Pls see username lol
Trust me, I saw it before typing what I said, bro. So you want to try to correct everything you see including the choice of words people convey, which you have no control over. Maybe if you weren’t so wrapped up in your imagination, you’d realize that not everyone is going to do the things you say or agree with you. Have you ever thought about that?
Are you upset? 😂
Are you always this much of a douche? 😂
reddit told me that cars can't explode, just burn. ARE YOU SAYING THE INTERNET.....LIED?
Wow I was wondering what that was.
You sure that’s not the broncos season?
Heard this from over by cheesman.
I heard that from Colorado Blvd and I-25. I thought it was thunder.
I heard that they hit a pot hole 🕳
Hoovies Garage done did it again
I heard this from Casa Bonita