Posted on 08/08/2023 12:17:16 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A Tesla vehicle spontaneously burst into flames in a high-end auto yard in Rancho Cordova, California, prompting local firefighters to criticize Tesla CEO Elon Musk on his own social media platform.
FOX KTVU reports that a Tesla vehicle spontaneously combusted in a high-end auto yard in Rancho Cordova, Sacramento County. The vehicle, which had been salvaged from flooding in Florida, had been sitting idle in the yard for several months when it caught fire last week. Breitbart News has reported extensively on how Florida’s massive floods turned Elon Musk’s electric vehicles into ticking time bombs.
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But the gummit will pay you $15K to buy one.
spon·ta·ne·ous·ly
[spänˈtānēəslē]
ADVERB
as a result of a sudden impulse and without premeditation:
“the crowd spontaneously burst into song”
SIMILAR:
of one’s own accord
without apparent external cause or stimulus:
Who would accept a flooded ev into their facility?
I wonder if the fire spread to other “high end” autos in the salvage yard.
As people say, “Yeah, but... those EVs are gonna be a bitch to dispose of”. The answer to the dilemma has been inherent in the vehicle itself, just like those taped messages to “Mr. Phelps” on “Mission Impossible”.
Maybe junkyards should insure their wrecked EV’s just in case they burn… 🧐
I’m sure TexasGator will comment shortly and spew his talking points about how lovely EVs are and we need to sing Kumbaya.
They did not think to remove the battery?...............
Thanks. A junkyard. I was wondering what “a high-end auto yard” meant.
“The vehicle, which had been salvaged from flooding in Florida”
After hurricane Ian last year this was going on quite a bit.
EVs that got flooded were spontaneously combusting all over. The media did a terrific job of keeping it as quiet as possible.
Seems the batteries and salt water don’t play nice together......I guess the EV engineers (of all makes) let that little bug slip through R&D and into production.
There are 7104 batteries in a Tesla Model S as a example.
Unfortunately some Teslas are made with the battery somewhat built into the frame. Musk touted it as engineering excellence. It's turned out to be a bad strategy analogous to Pinto gas tanks.
I have a garage which is part of the house and I wouldn’t sleep peaceful knowing that I have a potential time bomb sitting there. I have nothing against electric cars and no doubt the time will come that this problem will be eliminated along with better batteries which will quicker charge and last longer or perhaps a different power source like hydrogen along with a fuel cell etc. But I think at the moment we are not quite there yet. In the meantime I believe fossil fuel powered cars are hard to beat.
> The vehicle, which had been salvaged from flooding in Florida… <
So it’s a Climate Change problem.
Look hard enough, and you’ll see that every problem is due to Climate Change.
(Al Gore promised me a ride in his private jet if I posted this.)
form.
“insure their wrecked EV’s...”
You know that’s been my question for a while......insurance companies pay big bucks for people to do risk assessment and analysis to figure out new ways to NOT have to pay out insurance claims, and you know they are fully aware these ticking time bombs are all over and yet you don’t hear a peep about them dropping people or jacking up premiums on people that own ‘em........weird that. 🤔
Any vehicle submerge under water must be scrapped. Submerged EV’s need isolated like toxic waste.
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