Can you imagine if Freepers posted every time a gas-powered car burst into flames? You’d have to scroll through page after page to find a story about Trump or Biden! 39,000 deaths in gas-powered cars! (I’m going to infer the guy in the Tesla didn’t even die, since there is no mention of it.)
The lesson here isn’t that people shouldn’t drive Teslas; it’s that highway departments should have a few trucks with foam.
Do ICE cars burst into flames without a collision? Do you have the pics?
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."
That wouldn’t work. Those are chemical fires.