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Despite the alarm being raised about this - and outright lies being perpetrated by a few - there are no actual electrocution deaths attributed to hybrids or electric cars.

To be clear, the voltages present in such cars can be dangerous. But the safety design of such cars, including fuses or circuit breakers designed to trip in the event of a crash, makes such accidents unlikely.

There is also a difference between the type of DC electricity found in a car, and the AC type we are more familiar with. AC flows across capacitances, or gaps, and is agressively ground-seeking, unlike DC. This means that even if a rescue worker cut through a live wire, the current, in most cases, would not flow through him.

Indeed, unlike electricity, gasoline cannot be 'turned off', so the danger reprresented by spilled gasoline in a crash is far greater.

2006-08-23 05:43:30 · answer #1 · answered by apeweek 6 · 1 0

i am shure there is my sister is a nurse and she gets things like that sometimes

2006-08-23 07:35:26 · answer #2 · answered by lulu 1 · 0 2

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