Posted on 09/13/2024 9:35:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
The battery hit temperatures of 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit while it was on fire.
California firefighters used about 50,000 gallons of water to put out a Tesla Semi fire after a collision, the National Transportation Safety Board said on Thursday.
According to the Associated Press, an aircraft also dropped fire retardant on the “immediate area” to bring the fire under control, the agency reported.
The battery hit temperatures of 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit while it was on fire.
The truck hit a tree while going around a curve on Aug. 19. Tesla's autopilot feature was not engaged, according to the agency report.
The NTSB said it would examine the battery for potential issues that pose fire risks.
Run the buses on alcohol and you would would be just as clean.
I work sports events at the local colleges. The schools motor pools have electric vehicles, basically glorified golf carts , some utility type vehicles and it probably works well in the application, short trips and light loads
Battery powered freight haulers ? Not ready for prime time.
I watch a guy on YT, he works heavy duty tow trucks out of LA. Way too many trucks crash to risk having these battery trucks out there. A truck burning for hours on a LA freeway what be a disaster.
“You would have had about half a heart beat to exit that bus safely.”
Imagine the pile-up of dead bodies at those small exit doors. Shudder!
A large swimming pool might hold around 40,000 gallons
The mere existence of these batteries pose fire risks. Every single one is a potential high temperature, difficult to extinguish fire. But hey, at least we're not burning as much of that eeeeeevil petroleum.
They didnt put the fire out.
The fire ran out of fuel.
Busses usually have windows that you can pop off.
Not sure that would have helped . That bus was raining molten metal .
The number of fires in proportion to the number of trucks of EV and Diesel types is massively out of proportion. Likewise for IC vs EV automobiles. If all Diesel trucks were converted to EV, statistically there would be a major fire every day. Just imagine one in some warehouse or an underground city like in Kansas City. How about a tunnel?
What about explosive cargo?..................
Ping!.............
Yet another business stream created by Tesla. Technical experts will be posted at various locations all across the fruited plain, just in case. Elon, what a guy.
"water conservation" - in California
Stupid firefighters then. Let it burn...which is what it did all the same.
Oh that. Well, just another one of those things. Will there really be a need to carry hazardous cargo in the utopian future when everything is electric? There will be no need to carry those nasty fossil fuels around will there?
Yea, and what did they do with the contaminated water and when are disposal regulations going to be issued for disposal of the damaged lithium battery? You can go to jail for dropping a lead acid battery in a landfill. What about lithium?
“We don’t need no water....”
“Busses usually have windows that you can pop off.”
True, but would people unfamiliar with how to do that even have enough time to figure it out and climb through the window?
And every expert will have a personal helicopter at his or her disposal to get them to the crash scene in time.
In essence you can’t put out a lithium fire. The materials the battery is made from don’t need oxygen to burn. Everything required for fire is right there. The most water will do is keep the toxic fumes from being airborne. Instead, the toxic chemicals will flow away with the water into the ground.
Gasoline ignites at ~575 degrees, but burns at ~1800 degrees F.
Gasoline is a very hot fire.
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