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Another major issue involves the challenges first responders face when dealing with an EV battery fire. Extinguishing these fires requires specialized fire suppression equipment and massive amounts of water. In addition, EV battery fires can burn hot enough to cause extensive damage to paved surfaces due to prolonged heat exposure.<\/p>\n
Orlando Speedworld Dragway also cited additional concerns behind the ban, including the possibility that doors may not unlock from the outside after a crash, the danger of removing an unconscious driver from a vehicle where the chassis could still be electrically live, and the risk posed to first responders during extraction. Furthermore, EVs may become immobile once power is disconnected, making it difficult to safely tow a disabled vehicle from the racing surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like it or not, electric vehicles (EVs) have become a viable transportation option, and that means people want…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[57352,47883,50124,57353,13546,57354,57355,855,57356,57357,139,141,140,57358,57359,57360],"class_list":["post-112705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-battery-fire","tag-car-fire","tag-drag-racing","tag-electric-vehicle-racing","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-ev","tag-evs","tag-fire","tag-nhra","tag-nhra-racing","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-speedworld-dragway","tag-race-car","tag-voltage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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