The Great Narrative: Highway shutdown – EV battery pack inside a truck trailer bust into flame.
Imagine if the truck trailer was inside a long tunnel. How many people unable to reverse out and would have breathed in the toxic smoke and die? Needless to say, same goes with an electric vehicle. "A tractor trailer hauling a mixed load caught fire on I-70 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania on July 20th, 2026. Inside the rear trailer: pallets of lithium-ion vape batteries, generators, shower surrounds — and the EV battery pack that started it all. There wasn't a single placard on the outside of that trailer. And under current DOT regulations, there didn't have to be." More in the StacheD Training video.