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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Lithium protection circuits only work when paired with chargers designed for lithium batteries. You can't use a standard lead-acid charger because the charge profiles are different.
Lithium chargers will charge the first 90% at high rates. The remaining 10% of the charge needs to be done at low rates. Lead-acid battery chargers are constant-rate chargers. They don't monitor battery charge state as do lithium chargers.
Salt and rust-rot ruined it by 1982.
yankees know everything.
Runing 30 amps for 10 to 15 hours is not in the scope of any household electrical system.
Bad move. Such a thing can surely not be covered under any Tesla warranty...expressed or inplied.
None of my ten or so battery chargers have a setting for a lithium iron battery,
A critical fact completely obscured by the headline.
Elon Bad. Boeing Bad.
And then there is the whole subculture of Tesla drivers which puts me off.
IMHO the vast majority of Tesla drivers are either former Prius or BMW/Audi/Mercedes management types who think their Model S is an acceptable indulgence to the religion of global warming, and enables them to smugly pontificate about saving the planet without having to sacrifice the comforts of a luxury sedan.
Or at least that is what they think until they have to charge the vehicle in an emergency, or rush out of the vehicle when it catches fire due to a minor accident that damaged the battery pack.
A friend back in Detroit would look for cars for sale in the south with blown motors. He’d ship them north to receive engines from cars with rusted and ratted out bodies.
He said look for the motors in the north where the road salt and environment will eat the bodies and the bodies in the south where the engines are ran into the ground.
It was about 40 years ago and he made good money doing it.
My Motorcycle Mechanic, who also works on luxury cars, will not allow an electric vehicle in his garage.
Removing the battery from the car and bringing it into your house to charge doesn’t seem like an especially bright idea. In fact, attempted Darwin Award level stupid.
It’s nice you shared how to decode that.
So is Hickory NC “Hicks or Relocated/Retired Yankees? Can you figure out Cosby TN… Contains Southerners, Bears and Yankees?
The battery was the same kind of battery used in regular cars. It is what runs the dashboard functions and is totally separate from the big lithium batteries under the car.
A quiet, gentle, sewing machine of a car, that took 90 degree turns like a brick on a velcro highway.
Making stuff idiot-proof requires several years of trial and error. Maybe the EV people are hiring the wrong idiots to design their safety features.
This is not a Tesla issue.
This is operator error.
Very clear analysis.
Too bad the reporter didn’t bother to do your research
🤣 ROFLMAO !!! Perfect
Most battery chargers have alligator clips.
My NOCO charger has lead acid, AGM, and lithium setting.
When I was researching lithium for my truck camper, I was told that AGM charging profile was very close to lithium.
Most LiPO batteries have a BMS to protect from over charging, and a low and high temp cut off.
I think they are great. Would not want an electric car.
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