In today's environment a burned Tesla is presumed political until proven otherwise. A year ago it would have been a presumed battery fire.
Battery fires are a real problem, but the spate of NYC E-bike fires was traced to improperly rebuilt batteries sold to e-bike couriers, who quite literally got burned on dangerous junk.
When rebuilding a multi-cell lithium battery, every cell must be the same make, model, capacity, and chemistry. If just one cell charges and discharges significantly faster than the others it can be both overcharged and overdischarged. This is where those NYC bike battery fires came from. Mixing random cells in a battery is just beggin to burn.
Electric cars do get some vicious battery fires, but a gas tank fire is no joke either. Both are usually only a problem if the car is in a pre-existing fire or is majorly smashed up. I don't know of anyone selling improperly rebuilt batteries for electric cars.
While this is one of the most complete incinerations of a car I've ever seen, note that most of the fire damage is above the floor level with very little paint damage below the bottom of the doors.
A battery fire would be underneath, and I would expect that to burn the paint off the door sills as well as heating the floor until the interior burned. I see mostly the latter damage here, so this looks more like arson unless the battery can be accessed from above without removing a steel cover.
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not that i'd ever advocate arson :3
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Battery fires are a real problem, but the spate of NYC E-bike fires was traced to improperly rebuilt batteries sold to e-bike couriers, who quite literally got burned on dangerous junk.
When rebuilding a multi-cell lithium battery, every cell must be the same make, model, capacity, and chemistry. If just one cell charges and discharges significantly faster than the others it can be both overcharged and overdischarged. This is where those NYC bike battery fires came from. Mixing random cells in a battery is just beggin to burn.
Electric cars do get some vicious battery fires, but a gas tank fire is no joke either. Both are usually only a problem if the car is in a pre-existing fire or is majorly smashed up. I don't know of anyone selling improperly rebuilt batteries for electric cars.
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A battery fire would be underneath, and I would expect that to burn the paint off the door sills as well as heating the floor until the interior burned. I see mostly the latter damage here, so this looks more like arson unless the battery can be accessed from above without removing a steel cover.