On my way back from lunch today, saw heavy black smoke billowing up and it was within a mile. Drove by the fire and saw the covered entryway of a brick building on fire and it was going great guns with flames going a couple stories up at least. It must have just happened because there were no first responders on site. Later learned that it was an Amazon EV that caught fire and someone at work had gotten hold of some pictures of the vehicle from inside the building and out. It was toast. I haven't found anything in the news about it yet. It's amazing how fast things got out of control.
Amazon EV Fire-SE Texas
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I believe they produce those vehicles just down the highway from where I live. I don't think they are selling or producing very many of them as people are getting laid off at the plant, very low production vehicle.
This is why I’ve never wanted an Amazon Fire TV stick
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From my understanding they only build it for Amazon. I don't think they've offered it to anyone else.
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I think you are correct, they would be far better off making them for other customers if such business exists. That plant used to build GM Equinox SUV's that sold in the six digits of production. I think the production of these EV vehicles is set at 20,000 a year max, they were down for re-tooling for almost a year, a reduced number of employees were called back to work and then they started laying off 6 months after production started. More layoffs are happening now.
Could see the column of smoke from a good ways away this afternoon.
I don't like using this guy as a "reliable source" but here is a tabloid-grade "news" article from one of the local yokels. https://montgomerycountypolicereporter.com/amazon-van-fire-spreads-to-high-rise-in-conroe/
That last pic is the view I had from the NB feeder road just south of 105. This would have been about 1:20 PM.
I've seen a UPS truck with a diesel engine run away before....
Wonderful to have your property turn into a toxic waste area after one of those fires.
Aren’t you mixing up GM brightdrop vans with Rivian vans which are now for sale to anyone not just Amazon?
Rivian seems to have more than their share of fires per their relatively limited production numbers. Not sure what is going on. If it was GM or Ford having all these fires it would be plastered on the news 24/7. Since the original Bolt debacle I have not seen any news about GM fires, and you know every EV fire makes the national news pretty much.
Looking at photos of the burnt out van and the fact they were able to put it out quickly I am inclined to believe this was probably some battery gadget in a package in the back catching on fire. If this was the vans traction battery lighting up I feel like it would have ended up much different if not still re-igniting days later.
If this was in fact the vans battery in thermal runaway I am happy to see fire departments have figured out how to quickly suppress a lithium ion fire.
If this was in fact the vans battery in thermal runaway I am happy to see fire departments have figured out how to quickly suppress a lithium ion fire.
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