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Garage fire. Caused by Volt? Maybe, maybe not.

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Murloc said:
there's a garage fire.
How to spark interest in such a common event?
Of course, let's cite something that generates hype!
The title is so misleading that it sounds almost like some dailytech artciles, or like if they have a hidden agenda.
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The OP is a troll? Maybe, maybe not.
 
Could have just been something smoldering in the car that reignited. Isn't that uncommon for the fire department to have to come back to a house a second time days later.
 
thedarkwolf said:
Could have just been something smoldering in the car that reignited. Isn't that uncommon for the fire department to have to come back to a house a second time days later.
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I agree. Fires reigniting aren't anything strange. Also, that thing is full of batteries with a decent amount of power. The original fire may have damaged the battery pack, causing it to eventually short and start the fire. Then again, maybe somebody is trying to get money just like that "out of control" prius a while ago.

Personally, I'm surprised they left the cars in the garage after the first fire. I would have thought they would have dragged them out into the driveway at least.
 
Bignate603 said:
I agree. Fires reigniting aren't anything strange. Also, that thing is full of batteries with a decent amount of power. The original fire may have damaged the battery pack, causing it to eventually short and start the fire. Then again, maybe somebody is trying to get money just like that "out of control" prius a while ago.

Personally, I'm surprised they left the cars in the garage after the first fire. I would have thought they would have dragged them out into the driveway at least.
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Normally the fire department on car fires will snip the battery cables to avoid a further electrical fire or a short that might cause the air bags to go off. If they were to drag the vehicle outside the garage, it could easily disturb the evidence. In investigating a car fire you must know the location of all the vehicles components.

Keep in mind that garage car fires will be investigated much harder due to the fact that the insurance company is looking for a scape goat to pay not for the $25K car, but for the $450K house it destroyed. I have spent literally 5 or 6 days on garage car fires trying to find the cause of the fire. As opposed to a driveway fire, the insurance company might only allocate 2 or 3 hours.
 
Thought I'd bump. I don't know what, if anything came from the event in my original post, but at least a couple of items have popped up recently with Gm going so far as to saying it may be redesigning the volt battery and also is offering owners a loaner car. Really some bad PR for it.

Sales have been tremendously bad all year. Through end of November they're just over 6000 cars. I think GM is going to be seriously thinking about cancelling the car unless by some miracle the economics of it change. There's no way they can consider it a successful program so far.
 
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