Tag Archives: High Voltage Battery

UPS operates alternative fuel vehicles (AFV) in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Brazil, the UK and Hong Kong. UPS operates eight different alternative fuel options, do you want they are.

Looking at the pictures, what is the first thing that comes to your mind?

Aftermarket hybrid conversions? That’s exactly what the Quantum PHEV F-150 Hybrid is.

The NFPA just released a Emergency Field Guide for sale.  The price is modest at $45 for a print copy.  I like to see extrication field guides hitting the market.  There’s a pocket electric/ hybrid guide getting ready to be released ...

I’m sure everyone has seen FedEx’s where the Navistar eStar is driven through the Enchanted Forest commercial. So lets take a look at the eStar and what rescuers need to known about this vehicle.

The 2013 Ford Towing Guide is available online and has some good information that we can use while we await the release of the 2013 Emergency Response Guide (ERG).

So what’s under the hood? The engine right? Yes and a little more.

The headline that started making the rounds thru the news networks was "Chevrolet Volt catches fire after crash". What you have to read into the story is the Chevrolet Volt caught fire in storage more than three weeks after a government crash test. That's right three weeks after the test. The first news report I heard completely left out that it happened three weeks after the test.

Hopefully by now, no one is intimidated by electric or hybrid vehicles. Once the High Voltage (HV) battery is disconnected all you have is a vehicle that has a really big battery in it. However, learning how to safely disconnect the HV battery by pulling out the service disconnect plug requires one key of information, where is it? The service disconnect plug can be located inside a console, the trunk, or even hidden under the carpet. The Nissan Leaf’s service disconnect is located under the carpet behind the center console.

So all the hype about electric cars is meant to scare us during an extrication? What do you know about the Chevrolet Volt and Opel/Vauxhall Ampera? General Motors and a group spun off the NFPA, behind the Electric Vehicle Safety Training project have spent a good amount of money educating and making training materials available to anyone with a computer and internet access.