The real cost of EVs

[Andy Bennett]

I understand that, to equip a workshop to repair EVs commercially, one needs to install a water filled pit large enough to completely submerge one in the event of fire.

Hi David
I do hope you had your tongue firmly in your cheek.
But, I'll play anyway...surely the pit would need to be large enough to take the largest vehicle likely to be serviced, which is already of course 17 tonne lorry sized and I guess soon will include 38 tonners. Your average garage is going to need an olympic sized swimming pool, along with equipment big enough to push/pull/carry a burning vehicle to it. From my H&S days we had it drilled into us that the last thing you put near an electrical fire is water, it was CO2 only.  So if you had said they needed a CO2 system to 'flood' an area then I might have believed you