2006-08-23 00:36:00 · 6 answers · asked by robin 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
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. The topic is similar to wondering whether people are burned alive in gasoline cars - these things happen in accidents - but it's less likely with an electric/hybrid car. There's simply no reason to run high-voltage wires into the passenger cabin. Gasoline, on the other hand, can splash anywhere.
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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.
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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.
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Mind you, that same worker would not want to cut through a gasoline line either! The high voltage lines, just like the gas lines, run underneath the car. Rescue workers know not to cut there.
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Indeed, unlike electricity, gasoline cannot be 'turned off', so the danger represented by spilled gasoline in a crash is far greater.
2006-08-23 05:45:01 · answer #1 · answered by apeweek 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes this has occoured. But it was not the driver or its passengers. After a collision is when the vehicle is the most dangerous. When using the jaws of life the operator can easily be exposed to deadly current stored in the cars batteries. This is due to Emergency Personell not being trained properly in extracation procedures and it does occour. Hope this helped. Some people are very nieve when it comes to dangers of things we deal with every day.
2006-08-23 00:56:20 · answer #2 · answered by wzzrd 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
None I have ever heard of but I know of no one that purchased one that knew how to work on them enough to get near the components that will kill you.
As far as Lulu.
WTF if even 1/10 of that many people died From some technology that new it would be deemed unsafe by now.
why do you just throw out crap answers.
2006-08-23 00:45:54 · answer #3 · answered by Steve 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
k lulu doesnt know what shes talking about, ignore her stupid reply.
No it is not possible at all. If it was, these car companies making the hybrids would be sued over and over and over again...would be way to costly given they dont sell many hybrids.
2006-08-23 00:42:12 · answer #4 · answered by David G 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
doubtful, unless you have a hybrid that's still connected to an AC charger...
...that'd have to be one LONG extension cord.
2006-08-23 00:42:37 · answer #5 · answered by R J 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
yes more then about 20000 a year
2006-08-23 00:38:20 · answer #6 · answered by lulu 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋