60,000lb Lithium-ion Battery EXPLODES on Freeway!

60,000lb Lithium-ion Battery EXPLODES on Freeway!​

Oct 3, 2024
60,000lb Lithium-ion Battery EXPLODES on Freeway! As always with my channel, this is NOT clickbait. I literally captured this massive 60,000lb lithium-ion battery as it explodes on the freeway. Call it luck, but man are we grateful we were not close when it happened. The drone footage is shot in 24fps so it is very difficult to capture how crazy this was up close. The sound was like a huge bomb. I wear a lavalier mic with a windscreen on, and even at 500' away it was LOUD.

I'll let the video do all the explaining, but all in all this was a 3 day job. Day 1 was 11 hours of just standing by, waiting to get to the action. Due to the toxic fumes from the fire, they ended up making the call to let it burn until it dies down. Then the next day, even more standby time as the Fire Department decided to tackle the container for safety reasons. We still got to upright the tractor and tow that along with the chassis.Then day 3 we were called back to actually upright the container, so it can be dismantled and scrapped. Was an insane weekend, with lots of big jobs in between. This technology is still new when it comes to fires, so I'm very curious to see what is going to change in regards to regulating this. Such as, do you need a special license to transport these? How should these fires be handled? With special equipment or just let burn?

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Yes, which is why we think these people are fucking retarded.

I'm rooting for the technology to work through its birth pains.

Lithium mining is "net zero" as well. Fun fact - The bulldozers and excavators used to mine the lithium actually run on unicorn farts.