Fire Investigators Point Towards Vehicle Charging Station In Fire That Destroyed Home

Preliminary conclusions from the investigation into a Mooresville, North Carolina, house fire that destroyed a Chevrolet Volt indicate the fire did not start in the vehicle, but elsewhere, and progressed to engulf the electric car.

Iredell County chief deputy fire marshal Garland Cloer told GreenCarReports in an exclusive interview that, "the source of ignition seems to be from outside the area of the vehicles."

 

topneuro - 11/14/2011 11:56:15 AM

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There was a prototype 2013 Chevrolet Spark EV next to it.

Joe_Limon - 11/14/2011 3:37:55 PM

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I thought seppuku was a Japanese thing?

F1_Driver - 11/14/2011 6:37:58 PM

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Except the Volt isn't Japanese. Maybe Wapanese but definitely not Japanese.

Joe_Limon - 11/14/2011 7:54:27 PM

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If you read the article you'll notice it says the fire didn't start from the volt, that it started from elsewhere in the Garage, it also says that there was a Nissan parked in the garage :)

1c3am5 - 11/15/2011 11:36:53 AM

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More cities should enact ordinances against burning Leafs.