Posted on 06/22/2022 10:19:49 AM PDT by DFG
A white Tesla Model S spontaneously burst into flames in a Rancho Cordova, California wrecking yard after the car had spent weeks sitting there after a collision.
The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District said that 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 it's 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.
Fires generated from electric vehicles can be especially hazardous, as they generate over 100 organic chemicals including some potentially fatal toxic gasses like carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide.
Capt. Parker Wilbourn, a spokesperson for the fire department, told the Washington Post that the Tesla fire burned hotter than 3,000 degrees.
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What kind of IDIOT junkyard owner would allow an electric car on his lot.
For the environment!
(Also, that could have been the owner’s home)
One with a new pit in his yard just for such emergencies.
Good thing Cacalifornia has lots of water for stuff like this...
When Lithium batts get to 230°F they go into whats called a “runaway thermal event”. An exothermic reaction that reaches temperatures that melt glass and has a pretty pink flame. There aint no putting em out with conventional means...gotta just let em burn. Tesla batts are water cooled. Guess after sitting in hot temps for weeks the water cooling just isnt really much effective. Oh...theres like 7000 individual cells in a T-batt. Only takes one cell to go off and then you can only stand back and watch...hopefully at night time.
Thank goodness I don’t have a white Tesla.
I remember when millions of dollars worth of electric cars caught fire during Hurricane Sandy. They determined that it was the salt water getting into the batteries.
That made me wonder under what other conditions these cars could catch fire/explode.
Or maybe we need to discharge them after an accident.
Probably wouldn’t have made the news had it been a black tesla. #btm
I am extremely impressed with Lithium fires. Science in action. Wow. If only there was a constructive use for them...
Why does the color of the Tesla matter?
Doesn’t AOC have a white Tesla? Wouldn’t it be gr....never mind.
Is it ethical to purchase a lithium battery powered EV?
https://www.cfact.org/2022/06/07/is-it-ethical-to-purchase-a-lithium-battery-powered-ev/
Not much to do about a metal fire - once it gets going it’ll burn the oxygen out of the water.
That’s why on a carrier one of the SOPs was to push a flaming bird off the deck into the ocean. The old salts said you could watch’em burning in the ocean as they sank.
Taofledermous shooting lithium battery slugs from a shotgun in 2012:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuOxqE5mY6c
Not that accurate at longer range.
If they had let it burn, how many BTU’s would it have created?
As expensive as lithium is, is it economical to recycle? If so, why not do it right away?
The Chernobyl Model........................
Imagine this happening in your garage in the middle of the night.
A lot of people still don’t know about these new fangled cars...................
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Just seems like lots of Toxic Waste to the unwashed.
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