It’s not a laptop in first class or a cheap Chinese scooter smoking ominously in the plane’s cargo hold. Nor is it a massive commercial ship packed to the gills with cars being transported across an ocean that has had one of the EVs parked onboard light off, and now the whole vessel is hopelessly ablaze. It’s not another fiery EV in a driveway or garage or the solar panels on a rooftop, even though I have covered all of those.
Comments regular Global Traveler turned me on to an ongoing drama in, of all places, San Diego County that should be ringing alarm bells all over the country. His heads-up was the first I’d heard of it, and it’s immediately obvious why.
Last Wednesday, the 15th of May, the Gateway Energy Storage Facility in Otay Mesa erupted into flames. It took firefighters an exhausting 24 hours to “extinguish” the blaze.
…The fire broke out inside the Gateway Energy…
