Stored energy is very dangerous.
Next door has a Tesla. Haven’t seen it since our last cold snap.
Oh my, is this about an electric car battery blowing up? Surely UIL would require certification of any electric device that was intended to be used in a home!
Tesla buyers should all be given a kite, a “skeleton key” and a book about Ben Franklin so they can study up on electricity before they start using a lot of it.
What does an EV battery weigh?
> Firefighters reiterated the explosion was caused by user error… <
You’ve got to be really stupid to accidentally start an ICE car fire. But it sure looks like pretty much anyone is capable of accidentally starting an EV fire.
Yet another reason I’ll be passing on EVs.
Firefighters reiterated the explosion was caused by user error, and the correct chargers must be used for lithium-ion batteries.
Important to use the correct charger with these batteries.
I learned this myself the hard way. But not with such dramatic consequences.
I tried to charge a camera battery with a larger watt charger than the manufacture’s charger.
The batter swelled up and could no longer fit in the camera.
I suspect that I came close to having the battery explode.
Stick with the manufacturer’s charger is the lesson to learn.
A slow charge is better than a fire and paying $40 for a new battery.
another story designed to make you not like Tesla’s in particular because the deep state now hate Musk for daring to question their narratives. Reading the story these morons who did this were doing something they never should have and that caused the battery to explode.
People need to look on YouTube or whatever and see what these batteries do when they go into thermal runaway.
I crashed a R/C airplane with a battery about the size of a small match box and it damaged the battery. The resulting fire was impressive. It was like a several second sustained welding arc.
EVs have a high voltage battery pack that runs the motor, air conditioning compressor, and other high drain accessories. It also runs a DC-DC converter that creates 12V from the 400V-800V main battery pack to run accessories such as the computer electronics, windshield wipers, lights, power windows, etc.
EVs also have a small 12V battery to provide power to these low voltage circuits, especially the computers, so you can get the EV 'turned on' and activate the high voltage battery pack.
In most EVs this 12V battery is a traditional lead-acid battery, and if it goes dead then the entire vehicle is dead, even if the main battery pack is 100% charged. Once the main high voltage battery pack is energized (car turned on,) then the DC-DC converter recharges this accessory battery.
Tesla has been replacing this 12V lead-acid accessory battery with a 12V Lithium battery to save weight and space.
This dufus EV owner removed this accessory 12V lithium battery from his car and tried to recharge it using a standard 12V car battery charger, which would fry ANY lithium battery.
We now return you to your regular EV bashing...
Aren’t you glad you subsidized these boondoggles.
Safe and effective.
Sounds like a dumb ass move. I bet the owners manual says not to do this Probably violates the warranty and neither the car insurance or homewoners insurannce will pay for damages.
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Google search tells me....
An electric vehicle battery is the most expensive, typically costing $4,760 to $19,200. Next is solar batteries, which usually cost $6,800 to $10,700.Nov 29, 2023
It would be funny if it wasn’t so laughable. Huh? scratches head
Was the power source too strong for the battery? I’ve seen someone blow up a battery that was in their car because they tried to pour too much power into it, too fast.
yankees know everything.
Runing 30 amps for 10 to 15 hours is not in the scope of any household electrical system.