White Tesla Model S bursts into flames after sitting in California wrecking yard for THREE weeks: Firefighters had to submerge vehicle in a pit to extinguish its battery

UK Daily Mail ^ | 06/22/2022 | JOSEPH MICHALITSIANOS

[BobL]

What kind of IDIOT junkyard owner would allow an electric car on his lot.

[Rurudyne]

For the environment!

(Also, that could have been the owner’s home)

[decal]

One with a new pit in his yard just for such emergencies.

Good thing Cacalifornia has lots of water for stuff like this...

[know.your.why]

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.

[enumerated]

Thank goodness I don’t have a white Tesla.

[Jamestown1630]

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.

[fuzzylogic]

Or maybe we need to discharge them after an accident.

[rktman]

Probably wouldn’t have made the news had it been a black tesla. #btm

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I am extremely impressed with Lithium fires. Science in action. Wow. If only there was a constructive use for them...

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Why does the color of the Tesla matter?

[JudyinCanada]

Doesn’t AOC have a white Tesla? Wouldn’t it be gr....never mind.

[proust]

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/

[reed13k]

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.

[T.B. Yoits]

I am extremely impressed with Lithium fires. Science in action. Wow. If only there was a constructive use for them...

Taofledermous shooting lithium battery slugs from a shotgun in 2012:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuOxqE5mY6c

Not that accurate at longer range.

[alternatives?]

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?

[Red Badger]

The Chernobyl Model........................

[SamAdams76]

Imagine this happening in your garage in the middle of the night.

[Red Badger]

A lot of people still don’t know about these new fangled cars...................

[AnthonySoprano]

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Just seems like lots of Toxic Waste to the unwashed.

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