Tesla Catches Fire During Helene-Burns House Down

[Wiley Marmot]

Having your ride, what ever it may be, get flooded during a storm sucks! It's always a good idea to move your vehicle to higher ground (if you can) when there is a possibility of flooding from an oncoming storm, storm surge, etc.

Beyond the risk of damaged electrical components, mold & mildew, contaminated fuel supply, etc; EVs face another flooding risk.

Thermal runaway. This occurs when otherwise separated cells in the battery contact each other. The resulting effect is an excessive, uncontrollable temperature increase. Heat will quickly rise, causing destructive explosions and fire.

Check out the home security cam video below.

8 ins of flood water + Tesla = NOT GOOD!

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[POHLHAMMER]

Shocking a person on the "news" , has no idea water + lithium battery = fire.

She probably doesn't know using propaganda to manipulate public opinion "was a thing" , either...

 

[Gregs24]

A Teardown Study of Flood Damaged Electric Vehicles, EV Battery Safety Part 2 (nhtsa.gov)

 

[Gregs24]

Shocking a person on the "news" , has no idea water + lithium battery = fire.

She probably doesn't know using propaganda to manipulate public opinion "was a thing" , either...

Quite why the second sentence is required there I do not know. Some people just can't help themselves with political drivel in any context.

 

[POHLHAMMER]

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Quite why the second sentence is required there I do not know. Some people just can't help themselves with political drivel in any context.

These are the people setting the narrative. Kinda wish they were less ignorant. If you already know it's all propaganda , great !

 

[smurfslayer]

These are the people setting the narrative. Kinda wish they were less ignorant.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Wasn't just one these things were torching off left and right also e bikes and scooters were going all flame on.

 

[roket]

Shocking a person on the "news" , has no idea water + lithium battery = fire.

cut them some slack, it's not like lithum + water = high heat reaction with flammable hydrogen byproduct, right? ....right?

 

[agreywolfe]

To be fair
8 inches of water+ any car = not good

 

[Wiley Marmot]

Wasn't just one these things were torching off left and right also e bikes and scooters were going all flame on.

Pretty sure is wasn't "all", or even "most"...........................but this one did! Skip the first 9:20 of the vid if you like; it's just the owner driving down the street/s. It becomes surreal and darkly humorous at that point.



FYI/PSA: Should "you" ever experience a LiON fire in any device (like the guy on this bike did) DO NOT put your face near it and try to blow it out! BAD **** could easily happen to your face!


Beyond that bit of brilliance; there's the aspect of while his new expensive ebike is burning down to melted slag; he DOES NOT summon Fire Dept assistance [Oh! Who needs THEM around?! They'd just try to extinguish the fire or something! ] Instead; as an alternative mitigation measure; our ebike hero uses his smart phone to to film his new ebike self destructing; while his Go Pro is filming him using his smart phone to film his ebike self destructing! Raising self absorbtion and obliviousness to a new high.

 

[roket]

Pretty sure is wasn't "all", or even "most"...........................but this one did! Skip the first 9:20 of the vid if you like; it's just the owner driving down the street/s. It becomes surreal and darkly humorous at that point.



FYI/PSA: Should "you" ever experience a LiON fire in any device (like the guy on this bike did) DO NOT put your face near it and try to blow it out! BAD **** could easily happen to your face!


Beyond that bit of brilliance; there's the aspect of while his new expensive ebike is burning down to melted slag; he DOES NOT summon Fire Dept assistance [Oh! Who needs THEM around?! They'd just try to extinguish the fire or something! ] Instead; as an alternative mitigation measure; our ebike hero uses his smart phone to to film his new ebike self destructing; while his Go Pro is filming him using his smart phone to film his ebike self destructing! Raising self absorbtion and obliviousness to a new high.

in some degree of fairness, there's not much that can be done to put out a lithium fire, those batteries are borderline impossible to put out once they go alight. not saying the fire department shouldn't have been called, but i dont know if there was much that they could've done aside from stand around and let it fizzle out

 

[Mr Hyde]

Most don't have the suppression foam needed to extinguish one. It's more of a stop it from spreading event.

 

[keithwalton]

You would of thought they'd of sealed the battery pack and from the report tesla attempted to but in some cases it failed / wasn't built properly.
Water isn't that much of an issue but salt water will be as the salt will be an electrolyte and increase electrical conductivity significantly.

It's funny though relatively benine automotive parts have to go through certification that involves salt water spray and jet washing etc.

 

[Gregs24]

Wasn't just one these things were torching off left and right also e bikes and scooters were going all flame on.

Wow that is going to need translation !

 

[Gregs24]

You would of thought they'd of sealed the battery pack and from the report tesla attempted to but in some cases it failed / wasn't built properly.
Water isn't that much of an issue but salt water will be as the salt will be an electrolyte and increase electrical conductivity significantly.

It's funny though relatively benine automotive parts have to go through certification that involves salt water spray and jet washing etc.

Battery pack is IP68 or similar but not a submarine. It can cope with driving through flood water but not prolonged drowning!

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