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.
I expect the battery didn't burn because those things should have something of a firewall to protect the battery to make accidental fires not absolutely catastrophic every time.
idk 🤷🏼♀️ you could see straight through to the ground in most places. Is the battery just in the space directly below the trunk? That looked like a mass of black goo.
Not sure where it is in a Tesla but the batrery weight should not be too far to one end of the car if it weighs more than a few hundred pounds. Big mass of goo could be the batrery indeed. These cars have handed firefighters some nasty surprise when caught in wildfires or house fires.
The batteries don't burn that often by themselves but they sure as hell add to any fire that cooks them long enough. They CAN ignite by themselves, abusive charging can do it but the computet probably prevents that. A manufacturing defecr sure as hell can do it.
Both gas and electric cars are entirely caoable of burning down your house garage first...
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not that i'd ever advocate arson :3
LukefromDC •
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.
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Preferable for that not to happen, the resulting cloud of fluoride gas isn't healthy for people living nearby.
LukefromDC •
The batteries don't burn that often by themselves but they sure as hell add to any fire that cooks them long enough. They CAN ignite by themselves, abusive charging can do it but the computet probably prevents that. A manufacturing defecr sure as hell can do it.
Both gas and electric cars are entirely caoable of burning down your house garage first...