Posted on 11/10/2023 11:57:43 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
Launching your watercraft is always stressful. There’s the challenge of backing up a trailer, the jeopardy of doing that with an expensive piece of equipment behind you, and the added spice of reversing towards a large body of water. However, a couple in Hollywood, Florida, learned that things can get a whole lot more stressful than that when their Tesla Model X slipped into the water.
The incident occurred last month, when the driver of the Model X was attempting to launch a jet ski into the water. According to a video posted to YouTube, the jet ski did get away, but things started going haywire in the EV.
An unidentified individual in the video asserts that the woman driving the Model X became trapped inside the vehicle after purported warning messages began appearing on the dashboard. Subsequently, her husband, who was on a jet ski, came to her aid and assisted her out of the car.
It’s unclear at what point the Model X started sliding into the water, but the Hollywood Professional Firefighters report that the vehicle “lost traction and slid into the inter-coastal.” It says that the salt water then reacted with the electronics, causing them to short, and sparking a fire that burned for an “extended period of time.”
“The fire was allowed to burn underwater until it extinguished itself,” Hollywood Professional Firefighters wrote on Facebook. “And even then, it had to be loaded carefully onto a special carrier, and followed by the Fire Engine to the impound lot, where they’ll keep the vehicle isolated for a few days in the very real possibility of re-ignition.”
As highlighted by Jalopnik, thankfully, despite the unusual combination of dangers, including the risk of fire and a vehicle submerging underwater, everyone managed to evacuate the Model X in time, and there were no reported injuries.
Although this could have happened to any EV, it’s worth remembering what fate befell this Tesla the next time Elon Musk says that his vehicles can be used as a boat.
Smoke on the water!....
A fire that’s inside!.............
You will burn for that!
I hate it when that happens
Except that it never has in all my decades of driving because I was never stupid enough to buy a battery car
Battery = ballast.
I was waiting for THIS to happen. I mean, to someone.
She’s lucky all the electronics didn’t short out and leave her with no way out of the car.
We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile, yeah
We didn’t have much time now
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground
Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky
(Smoke) on the water, you guys are great
They burned down the gambling house
It died with an awful sound
Funky Claude was running in and out
He was pulling kids out the ground now
When it all was over
Find another place
Swiss time was running out
It seemed that we would lose the race
Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
Burn it down
We ended up at the Grand Hotel
It was empty, cold and bare
The Rolling truck Stones thing just outside
Huh, making our music there now
With a few red lights and a few old beds
We made a place to sweat
No matter what we get out of this
I know, I know we’ll never forget
Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
(I can’t hear anything)
one more time
(Smoke on the water) hey!
I feel sorry for the owners but that is really, really funny. Florida man strikes again.
That was the 8 track that was always still playing when daylight came.
Elon needs to have Tesla produce a battery-powered jet ski.
It would be the bomb.
I guess that might not be a good name.
Call it The JohnKerry-AlGore-PeteyButterJuice
Look at all the extra expense in that short description! That doesn't include the huge cost of putting 50,000 gallons of water on an EV fire on ground or the huge dunk-tank to dump the burning car into. Or the special equipment and training needed to fight an EV fire.
When a conventional car burns up on the road, you just send out any old car hauler to take away the remains and dump it at the junk yard. No extra expenses.
These EVs hit you with huge up-front expenses, huge operating expenses, huge wear-and-tear on roads, tires and parking structures, and then enormous disposal expenses when they burn up.
It's incredible that anybody would be pushing this crap onto us.
Then you have the Ram Locomotive insanity.
There is way too much "free" government money sloshing around leading to bad economic decisions everywhere you look.
most likely the problem started with the “safety” equipment. The anti lock brakes (totally useless add on to all mew cars and trucks these days) They cause a vehicle to not stop on boatramps.
If you have ALB on a vehicle, you can do it too, just add on hybrid or total elect powertrain and your vehicle will also burn underwater.
I think you forgot to add “ said Sam I am” to your list. EV seem to needs a Goldie Locks climate to work. 💡 Epiphany! No wonder the woke fanatics are dead set on no change to the climate and want their garden world. Some how I feel though many of them don’t believe in God they want to impress him make the garden world and ask forgiveness to let them back into Eden.
“EV seem to needs a Goldie Locks climate to work”
Which is precisely why I wrote they work fine in Palo Alto, California. The liberals infest all the places with Goldie Locks climates. They don’t have a freakin’ clue about the real world that real people inhabit.
There used to be a drag racing boat called SMOKE ON THE WATER>.
DO NOT remember who owned it.
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