Posted on 08/03/2021 8:59:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
VIDEO AT LINK................
Fire engulfs Tesla Model S in San Diego
This #tesla @Tesla exploded on my block at 1 AM here in #sandiego . Is this something that has been happening? It was parked and there was a gunshot-like noise that woke me up. By the time I decided to get up and go outside the fire department was hosing it down. pic.twitter.com/9q5VDui1at
— Kojo Douglas (@amankwahlarose) August 2, 2021
Why didn’t it drive itself to the nearest fire department?
Google: Lithium Battery Runaway Thermal Event.
Tesla needs to provide a flame retardant suit with purchase.
A nice thing about gasoline is that it won’t ignite unless there’s oxygen present. Thus it’s not going to explode in the tank, and the air/gasoline mixture above the gasoline in the tank won’t ignite either.
A battery, on the other hand, contains everything it needs to explode if it is shorted or whatever.
Does Boeing and the FAA know about this?...............
> A little Bondo, a buffing wheel, and some paint... <
My first car was more Bondo than metal. And to make things worse, I was the world’s worst Bondo mechanic.
On the bright side, at least it isn’t burning fossil fuels.
I especially like the custom contour seats, and the beverage-gripping dash.
This is the new normal....................
Also, the whole car is potentially a bud vase.
How do you charge it then? Extension cord out of the garage?
What’s to keep the thing from blowing up while people are in it? If it isn’t safe enough to be left in a garage, it isn’t safe to drive. What if these things spontaneously burn in parking garages and catch other cars on fire?
I don’t think electric cars are a good idea until safer, more stable batteries are available.
Engine 13 laying two lines.............to a car?
What’s to keep the thing from blowing up while people are in it? If it isn’t safe enough to be left in a garage, it isn’t safe to drive. What if these things spontaneously burn in parking garages and catch other cars on fire?
I don’t think electric cars are a good idea until safer, more stable batteries are available.
The Newwwwww Allante!
Yep.
> If it isn’t safe enough to be left in a garage, it isn’t safe to drive. <
Please, you’re not supposed to use logic when fighting ‘Climate Change’.
From experience with 2005 Durango, electrical shorts in new cars with computers and sensors will short out, eventually. Picture the teacher in the school parking lot doing 'donuts' in the fresh snow in Vancouver, WA, when the car erupts in flames. Fortunately it was a gas fueled auto and she got out alive. So what happens if the sensor detecting remaining battery life shorts in an EV?
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