Water doesn’t put out these fires. You need tons of sand or dirt. I guess fire departments need to start equipping dump trucks of sand now
The solution for cleaner trucking is something like the Siemens eHighWay, not driving around with 10,000 lbs of extra batteries.
Water on an electric fire?
I’d hate to see how many gallons they’d need to put out a full fire.
How many gallons of water are required to operate a diesel truck?
> It takes about 13 gallons of water to produce a gallon of fuel.
> Semi trucks average 45,000 miles per year
> Semi-trucks get an average of 6.5 miles/gallon
So a diesel truck’s yearly fuel consumption is 6,923 gallons of diesel which will use 90,000 gallons of water to produce.
How many gallons of water does it take to put out a regular semi fire? Without knowing this, this stat means nothing.
To put this in perspective, it can take 40000 gallons of water to put out a diesel semi truck fire. In other words not that different than a Tesla Semi fire.
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Water doesn’t put out these fires. You need tons of sand or dirt. I guess fire departments need to start equipping dump trucks of sand now
The solution for cleaner trucking is something like the Siemens eHighWay, not driving around with 10,000 lbs of extra batteries.
Water on an electric fire?
I’d hate to see how many gallons they’d need to put out a full fire.
How many gallons of water are required to operate a diesel truck?
> It takes about 13 gallons of water to produce a gallon of fuel.
> Semi trucks average 45,000 miles per year
> Semi-trucks get an average of 6.5 miles/gallon
So a diesel truck’s yearly fuel consumption is 6,923 gallons of diesel which will use 90,000 gallons of water to produce.
How many gallons of water does it take to put out a regular semi fire? Without knowing this, this stat means nothing.
To put this in perspective, it can take 40000 gallons of water to put out a diesel semi truck fire. In other words not that different than a Tesla Semi fire.