Watch the Ford F-150 Lightning fire that stalled production for five weeks.
Footage of the blaze was previously unreleased until it was obtained by CNBC by way of a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the Dearborn Police Department. The publication managed to obtain two hours of overlapping footage from 17 police officer body cams, as well as additional footage captured by responding vehicle dashcams. A short clip has been shared to the publication’s YouTube page, which gives us a taste of just how intense a battery fire can be.
This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Ford paused production and sales of the F-150 Lightning for five weeks following the incident in Dearborn. According to Ford in itsrelated to the incident, the fire was the result of a manufacturing fault that allowed for a short circuit to take place inside the battery pack. Ford maintains that there is no evidence of a larger charging fault with the Lightning model.
Electric vehicles aren’t inherently more likely to catch fire than an internal combustion vehicle, with most incidents coming as the result of battery damage sustained in a crash. That said, the resulting fires can be significantly more difficult to put out than what emergency services are used to handling. For example, a
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