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The most important method to fundamentally block fire is to prevent it from occurring.
The anxiety over an electric vehicle fire that broke out in the underground parking lot of an apartment in Incheon's Cheongna district continues.
Electric vehicle fires continue to break out in apartment complexes across the country, and while they are still being successfully contained, everyone is worried, feeling like they are always walking on thin ice.
Electric vehicle fires will increase in the future, and the possibility of them escalating into large fires cannot be ruled out.
Since there is no perfect way to overcome the limitations of underground parking and charging due to the characteristics of urban complex housing, the utilization of underground space is an inevitable fate.
Concerns about this have been raised in related advisory meetings for several years now, and it is a task that must be addressed by us, who have the worst conditions.
Electric vehicle fires are still fewer than those of internal combustion engine vehicles, but as the use of the latest electric vehicles continues and they age, the number of fires will increase. In addition, the fire characteristics per case are worse than those of internal combustion engine vehicles, with a high fire spread rate and high temperature, and there are concerns about safe escape due to a short golden time. Therefore, it is said to be an important task to be solved in the future.
ChoiRecently, there was another terrifying situation when an electric vehicle fire broke out in the underground parking lot of a multi-use apartment complex in Jeonju.
In last week's column, I mentioned that it is necessary to secure subsidies to encourage scrapping of old electric vehicles with weak BMS and other features, and at the same time, it is necessary to secure a budget to enable immediate replacement by activating the distribution of smart control chargers that can add charging control functions to slow chargers installed in all underground parking lots nationwide.
It is said that this issue was also discussed in the recent National Assembly audit.
The most important issue among these is that the government's comprehensive measures have limitations in providing immediate effects as the fear caused by the previous large electric vehicle fires is still spreading nationwide in apartments and other places, so it is a time when solid supplementary measures are needed.
Although everyone is reluctant to bring it up above water, the anxiety on the front lines is great.
Among these, the existing slow chargers that do not have the charging control mentioned above must be replaced with smart control slow chargers that can be controlled as soon as possible, but the Ministry of Environment, which is the competent department, has not yet provided subsidies for this.
Therefore, it can be said that active efforts to replace the issues pointed out in the audit are required.
In other words, the replacement of existing slow chargers, which are causing anxiety in apartments nationwide, with smart chargers that can control charging should be done quickly through budget allocation.
What is more certain here is that although they have already declared that they will distribute smart control chargers starting this year, it is still ineffective as not a single penny has been put into practice.
A smart control charger has already been defined as a charger that can control charging by utilizing communication functions, and in particular, it must be a charger that has been confirmed to have functions such as charging control for all existing electric vehicles.
/> As the number of charger companies that have already been developed and registered is increasing, I would like to mention that the already secured budget should be utilized in order to immediately relieve the anxiety of apartment residents.
I am worried that the rest of the year will just pass by as the ridiculous situation of talking ahead but not executing a single penny continues.
This could be said to be the least the government can do for apartment residents who live in the most anxiety.
When it comes to electric vehicle fires in underground parking lots, the key task is to extinguish them after they occur, but it is even more essential to secure a method to fundamentally block the fire and prevent it from occurring in the first place.
However, in reality, the comprehensive measures announced by the government have many abstract aspects and are mostly measures that will be implemented in the mid- to long-term.
In other words, there are very few stable measures that apartment residents can feel right now.
Moving the chargers above ground is impossible due to a lack of land, and even if they are moved, electric vehicle owners will face serious inconveniences such as difficulty in charging in the winter and having to move them to a parking lot after charging.
There is a lot of mutual dissatisfaction at present.
There is also concern over the fact that many electric vehicle fires occur after parking, even in the case of electric vehicle fires.
Therefore, it is necessary to immediately execute a budget to replace the unsafe slow chargers in the current underground parking lot with the smart control slow chargers that the Ministry of Environment always mentions.
It is a time when we need to overcome the limitations of only talking and not putting it into practice and make efforts to quickly implement and relieve anxiety. We urge the Ministry of Environment to make a decision quickly.