Posted on 01/30/2024 8:45:39 AM PST by devane617
Officials say a low-voltage, lithium-ion battery from a Tesla exploded, sending heavy smoke through a North Carolina home.
Cary Police say the owners of the Tesla removed one of the batteries from the car and took it in their house to charge it Saturday. While it was being charged, the battery short-circuited, and heavy smoke was released.
Four people suffering from smoke inhalation were evacuated from the home.
The battery involved in the accident was not a large, high-voltage battery that serves as a motor for an electric vehicle, according to firefighters. It was a 12-voltage battery similar to what is used to start a gas-powered car.
Firefighters say the car’s owners were having trouble with the battery and couldn’t get a replacement, so they removed it and brought it inside to try to charge it. The owners did not follow manufacturers’ instructions, and the lithium-ion battery exploded.
Firefighters reiterated the explosion was caused by user error, and the correct chargers must be used for lithium-ion batteries.
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Stored energy is very dangerous.
Next door has a Tesla. Haven’t seen it since our last cold snap.
Oh my, is this about an electric car battery blowing up? Surely UIL would require certification of any electric device that was intended to be used in a home!
Which is why I refuse to buy an electric vehicle.
Tesla buyers should all be given a kite, a “skeleton key” and a book about Ben Franklin so they can study up on electricity before they start using a lot of it.
Coworker lived next door to a tesla driver. One day the tesla stopped out of power 300’ from home. Her husband grabbed a gas can and went in the yard.
Waved the can at her and said: Ive got some….Oh never mind! 🤣
What does an EV battery weigh?
They removed a battery from a tesla and took it inside the house to charge it. This is more a Darwin Award thing than an electric vehicle thing. They make chargers to plug into a car. Did they try to hook it to a 12 volt battery charger?
So, did you help them push it?
> Firefighters reiterated the explosion was caused by user error… <
You’ve got to be really stupid to accidentally start an ICE car fire. But it sure looks like pretty much anyone is capable of accidentally starting an EV fire.
Yet another reason I’ll be passing on EVs.
Firefighters reiterated the explosion was caused by user error, and the correct chargers must be used for lithium-ion batteries.
Important to use the correct charger with these batteries.
I learned this myself the hard way. But not with such dramatic consequences.
I tried to charge a camera battery with a larger watt charger than the manufacture’s charger.
The batter swelled up and could no longer fit in the camera.
I suspect that I came close to having the battery explode.
Stick with the manufacturer’s charger is the lesson to learn.
A slow charge is better than a fire and paying $40 for a new battery.
The guy next to me in my office has a Tesla model Y.
I told him a while back that I appreciate when he parks it far away from the rest of our cars in the parking lot. That way I don’t have too look for it in the morning to make sure I do not park near.
He thought I was kidding. I was not. I will not park next to it.
The total weight for all the batteries on a Tesla is 1000-1100 pounds.
It wasn’t even an electric car battery. It was a regular car battery. Most car batteries are AGM or lead acid. This one was a lithium battery. It actually should have been fine but most lithium batteries have some sort of circuitry between them and the charging system.
Yes. That’s “hold my beer” type stuff. I don’t put this under EV’s are dangerous at all.
another story designed to make you not like Tesla’s in particular because the deep state now hate Musk for daring to question their narratives. Reading the story these morons who did this were doing something they never should have and that caused the battery to explode.
People need to look on YouTube or whatever and see what these batteries do when they go into thermal runaway.
I crashed a R/C airplane with a battery about the size of a small match box and it damaged the battery. The resulting fire was impressive. It was like a several second sustained welding arc.
Not sure why ‘firefighters’ would feel compelled to ‘reiterate’ this. Of course it was the user’s fault. Too bad it only applies to Magic Climate Change Eraser batteries and not guns.
EVs have a high voltage battery pack that runs the motor, air conditioning compressor, and other high drain accessories. It also runs a DC-DC converter that creates 12V from the 400V-800V main battery pack to run accessories such as the computer electronics, windshield wipers, lights, power windows, etc.
EVs also have a small 12V battery to provide power to these low voltage circuits, especially the computers, so you can get the EV 'turned on' and activate the high voltage battery pack.
In most EVs this 12V battery is a traditional lead-acid battery, and if it goes dead then the entire vehicle is dead, even if the main battery pack is 100% charged. Once the main high voltage battery pack is energized (car turned on,) then the DC-DC converter recharges this accessory battery.
Tesla has been replacing this 12V lead-acid accessory battery with a 12V Lithium battery to save weight and space.
This dufus EV owner removed this accessory 12V lithium battery from his car and tried to recharge it using a standard 12V car battery charger, which would fry ANY lithium battery.
We now return you to your regular EV bashing...
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