With the take-up of electric vehicles across Australia commercial market considered "pretty modest" so far, those supporting an EV garbage truck trial in Shepparton believe its important to start chipping away towards a transition.
An EV fire that isn’t caused by the drive battery usually doesn’t affect it. The drive battery is a very dense insulated block near the bottom of the vehicle, so it takes a surprising amount of external heat to get it to burn.
Attaching a noisemaker to a vehicle is a simple fix and they’d do that if the trucks actually turned out to be silent.
An EV fire that isn’t caused by the drive battery usually doesn’t affect it. The drive battery is a very dense insulated block near the bottom of the vehicle, so it takes a surprising amount of external heat to get it to burn.
Attaching a noisemaker to a vehicle is a simple fix and they’d do that if the trucks actually turned out to be silent.
I vote the noise maker be Jimmy Carr’s laugh on repeat, “ha, ha, ha, harrrr!!”