I thought we weren't meant to do that.
Hey liberal social engineers, I recommend you spend more tax dollars on supplying firehouses with a second line of emergency equipment:
Posted on 01/30/2023 4:00:32 AM PST by dennisw
Tesla caught on fire while the driver was on Highway 50 in Rancho Cordova Fire officials said that nothing was wrong with the car before it combusted
Firefighters used 6,000 gallons of water to extinguish a Tesla Model S that spontaneously burst into flames on a busy highway outside of Sacramento on Saturday.
The driver, who was not injured, was on Highway 50 in Rancho Cordova at around 3pm when smoke started to come out from the front of the car.
Photos of the luxury car showed the vehicle completely totaled with the front end of completely burnt.
Officials responded to the scene with two fire engines and a water tender. The Metro Fire of Sacramento crew said that nothing was previously wrong with car.
The horrific blaze wasn't the first Tesla S fire that Metro Fire of Sacramento officials had to extinguish.
A white Tesla model burst into flames in a Rancho Cordova wrecking yard in June after the car had spent weeks sitting there after a collision.
Firefighters arrived at the wrecking yard to find the Tesla fully engulfed in flames. Each time the firefighters attempted to extinguish the flames, the Tesla's battery would reignite the fire.
The fire department posted an Instagram video of the ordeal, saying that even when firefighters moved the Tesla onto its side to spray the battery directly, the car would burst into flames again 'due to the residual heat.'
Eventually, the firefighters dug a pit near the Tesla and moved the burning car into it and then filled the pit with water, 'effectively submerging the battery compartment.'
The technique worked, and the fire department was able to put out the fire with no injuries and 4,500 gallons of water used - about the same amount of water used for a building fire.
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You raise a great question. I live north of Baltimore. To get south of Baltimore, you have a choice of two tunnels or a bridge. The tunnels do have some limitations for HAZMAT vehicles.
I wonder if they need to consider adding EV’s to the list and making them run 15 miles out of their way.
(One can also bypass the tunnels by driving through downtown Baltimore. It takes about 45 minutes, but at least the Squeegee boys will wash your windshield at every red light.)
One car in Texas took 30,000 gallons of water before the fire went out. Imagine how many gallons a big rig would take.
Well Lithium and water… are spontaneously combustible. So…
I thought we weren't meant to do that.
Hey liberal social engineers, I recommend you spend more tax dollars on supplying firehouses with a second line of emergency equipment:
Electric vehicle fires: Where the waiting game wins
"Firefighting foams work by creating a blanket to smother a fire. Many types of foam have properties that cool the surrounding area by assisting the water in absorbing heat. Unfortunately, getting the foam to the failed cells is difficult, if not impossible, because the thermal runaway event is happening inside a watertight, fire-resistant box. Additionally, even if it was possible to get the foam inside the box and flood the area with foam, the foam's main purpose is typically to starve a fire’s oxygen supply, but a lithium-ion battery cell does not need external oxygen to burn. Consequently, foam is ineffective at stopping a thermal runaway."
Corrected headline:
Fire Crews Waste 6000 gallons of Water with Incorrect EV Fire Suppression
Generally ICE cars that burst into flames without a collision do so because of poor maintenance, poor design, or idiot drivers.
Water is not the solution. They need a combination chiller and oxygen deprivation method.
Elon and his engineers also need to figger this out in their labs.
Witty... That works well... lol
I’ll bet that, even if they could afford to guy one, none of those firemen would EVER buy a Tesla. Or any other electric vehicle.
And it would probably be more difficult to push one of those into a water-filled hole.
Domino’s Pizza is touting their new electric delivery vehicles that keep the pizza hot while it’s being delivered. Now they can just slap the pizza together and cook it on its way to its destination…
EVs are a flaming dead-end
That “Key Performance Indicator” is trending the wrong way. I wonder if “Gallons to Extinguish EV Fire” is on EV maker and FD performance dashboards.
“Do ICE cars burst into flames without a collision? Do you have the pics?”
VW Bugs back in the day were pretty notorious for this. Modern day cars not so much.
That wouldn’t work. Those are chemical fires.
Maybe those will have to be doused with foam. like petroleum fires, instead of water,
Inevitably one of these glorified golf carts will self-combust in a parking garage under some glitzy hotel in a big city. The intense heat will damage the structure and the toxic fumes will contaminate the entire building. Remediation costs will run into the millions. Wonder what the insurance companies think about this?
That’s a sandblasting truck. How about bring in a concrete mix truck, and it dumps half or all its contents onto the flaming fag Tesla? That will put out the lithium fire.
Interesting, about Lithium fires not needing oxygen. Makes it almost seem like there’s not much that CAN be done besides moving it over and letting it burn... or some expensive design to help isolate fires. Curious about using a non-vaporizing fire suppressant, like sand.
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