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Rescuers and electric car: how to intervene safely? And how can the fire brigade know if the engine (zero noise) is off before taking action?
Rescuers: There is HV, created by the Dutch Fire Brigade
EV security is still partly virgin terrain. Experts reassure that the risks associated with an accident are no higher than the collisions sustained with a thermal vehicle. And i official crash-tests from EURO NCAP regularly endorse this thesis, assigning the highest marks to the EVs examined, 5 stars. But the firefighters in every country continue to study the precautions to act in maximum safety, given the presence of high voltage batteries. One of the questions that has been asked is: how to be sure that the system is off and the car does not advance suddenly? An answer comes from Dutch fire brigade, which operate in a country where electric cars are much more widespread than here. With a tool marketed by a German company of emergency equipment, the Dönges & Co. It is a plug which, connected to the car socket in the appropriate door, “Simulates a charging process”.
It’s called HT and costs € 750: here’s how it works
With this move the parking brake is automatically activated and put the selector in the “parking”. Thus, the Fire Brigade intervenes without the risk of a surprise movement triggered, for example, by the driver. That, lifeless, accidentally move the accelerator pedal. There is no longer the need to enter the passenger compartment, often a complicated and dangerous maneuver, to manually press the button start-stop of the vehicle. The pin, named HT, is for sale online at 750 euro, with socket is universal equipped with connectors “Type 2” e “Type 1“. The tips ofHT they are designed to also bypass any anti-theft locking system of the charging door. In Italy, the fire brigade refers to a handbook entitled Guidelines in case of intervention on electric vehicles, published in 2019.
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