[fuzzylogic]

Or maybe we need to discharge them after an accident.

[Spktyr]

Or, you know, disconnect the battery leads.

[catnipman]

“Or maybe we need to discharge them after an accident.”

not generally possible with a damaged tesla battery: liquid cooling system kaput, discharge-control circuitry kaput ... any battery discharge generates waste heat, so any attempt to deliberately discharge a damaged tesla battery that contains a significant charge is likely to overheat it and trigger a run-away discharge/heat event that produces thousands of degrees of heat ...