Posted on 06/24/2022 7:35:14 AM PDT by FarCenter
A totaled Tesla Model S burst into flames in a Sacramento junkyard earlier this month, causing a fire that took "a significant amount of time, water, and thinking outside the box to extinguish," firefighters said.
The vehicle was involved in a comparably unexplosive accident that sent it to the junkyard three weeks ago – it's unclear what caused the Tesla to explode nearly a month after being taken off the road. Like other electric vehicle fires, it was very difficult to extinguish.
"Crews knocked the fire down, but the car kept re-igniting and off-gassing in the battery compartment," the department said on Instagram.
The crew at the wrecking yard helped firefighters gain access to the battery by flipping the car onto its side, but even that wasn't enough to stop the fire. "Even with direct penetration, the vehicle would still re-ignite due to the residual heat," the department said.
The eventual solution was to dig a pit big enough to hold the burning Tesla and submerge it in 4,500 gallons (c 17,000 liters) of water, which the department said had the added benefit of limiting contaminated runoff.
Metro Fire of Sacramento said the call was their first Tesla fire, and reported no injuries as a result of the conflagration.
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Maybe that’s what they were trying to do when the fire started.
The gift that keeps on burning 🔥
Zombie car!
Christine is still around.
I've been making that point since they first started selling Tesla cars but was challenged by rabid futurephiles, obsessed with the notion that anything new automatically is da Schiz, who insisted that gasoline ICEs were every bit as dangerous.
But the truth of the matter is you can have small gasoline leaks that pose little or no danger. And even a YUGE gas leak can come to no harm. But when you're talking a 500-Amp storage battery (750-A peak), EVERY leak, no matter how small, is potentially fatal.
Even Ol' Sparky, according to my research, delivers just 20 Amps at most.
No, they don’t.
Thomas Massie was able to convert a salvage Tesla battery into a system to power his house, but few have a brain his size.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpPYkqpe-Ms
Lithium has a chemical reaction with water. The reason it needed so much water was all that Lithium had to react with the water to eventually neutralize it. Don’t get your phone wet!
“4,500 gallons (c 17,000 liters) of water”
That California doesn’t have to spare
I have a 38 hp diesel Kubota FR3680 that I cut acres with each week. It has 1600 hours on it now and fires right up and will smooth cut to 2 1/2” in 5” grass as fast as I can stand to ride it burning less than a gallon an hour.
Think I’ll hold on to it for a bit longer.
True. They charge faster and are more energy dense. Big advantages over older lithium tech.
I just have a medium size suburban style house and lawn.
I looked into Ryobi riding mowers. But instead of taking up so much room in garage, I bought a robot lawn mower Sileno City model, for the backyard. After it has done 3 re-charges of battery, all that remains is edge trimming with a weed whacker and a few spots the robot missed. The robot finds its way back to the charging station automatically when battery gets low, using the guide wire buried 1” below ground, Charges it self and starts mowing again all by itself. What a time saver!
This congressmen paid 15K for one, and drove 900 miles to pick it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpPYkqpe-Ms
Electric cars are really freaking dangerous.
If I had one of those it would get lost but at least it would hit the fence somewhere.
I can see it lost and alone looking for the charger just before expiring having ventured too far from the mother ship.
It never gets lost lol
Because it requires user to install boundary wire around area to be mowed. And also the guide wire.
Both wires are connected to the charging station and have small electric current flowing through them. The robot can detect this current and never crosses over. I am using this robot mower for 3+ months and it never got lost. It starts looking for guide wire when it’s battery power drops below 30%. So it never has died on me. The wires are installed a few inches away from obstacles such fence or tree. So robot does not bump into anything.
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