Tesla car fire....Electric car...Not for me

[ioweddie]

Are electric cars a deathtrap in waiting? Terrifying video shows how hard it is to extinguish a blaze

A BLAZING Tesla has sparked electric car safety fears after firefighters battled to extinguish the inferno. The Model S was engulfed in flames after its 19-year-old driver crashed into a concrete b…

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[Blobcat]

With plenty of tax applied they’ll be perfectly safe...

 

[Donald McPherson]

Should the safety equipment not have stopped the Tesla before it hit the concrete barrier?

 

[LostKiwi]

Are electric cars a deathtrap in waiting? Terrifying video shows how hard it is to extinguish a blaze

A BLAZING Tesla has sparked electric car safety fears after firefighters battled to extinguish the inferno. The Model S was engulfed in flames after its 19-year-old driver crashed into a concrete b…

www.thesun.co.uk

And no one has ever seen a petrol or diesel powered car catch fire ...

Typical sensationalist red top rag reporting.

 

[Craiglxviii]

.... wtf is a 19yo doing driving a model S tezzer?

 

[sl500amgsport]

.... wtf is a 19yo doing driving a model S tezzer?

Judging by the current times my guess is either a social influencer or a low ranking footballer...

Mercedes SL500 R231

 

[flying haggis]

"daddy's car" ?

 

[Srdl]

And no one has ever seen a petrol or diesel powered car catch fire ...

That was exactly my first thought. “Car with gallons of highly inflammable liquid on board crashes and busts into a ball of flames!”

 

[Craiglxviii]

That was exactly my first thought. “Car with gallons of highly inflammable liquid on board crashes and busts into a ball of flames!”

Is problematic in that it’s quite a lot easier to make a petrol tank crashproof than stop a solid state battery from catching fire or exploding. It’s a matter of rate of energy release. To give some idea, a 15 gallon petrol tank holds 10x the potential energy of a 50kW.hr. However....

A petrol tank may spill and its spilt contents may ignite. This is combustion, and it is almost certain to occur outside of the fuel tank due to modern design trends. But a solid state battery may go high order and release its energy in a very short time period, equivalent to an explosion of upto 430kg of TNT.

 

[bembo449]

.... wtf is a 19yo doing driving a model S tezzer?

tezzer ?? gulp , didn't realise they had a following , thought only people who bought them were keeping up with the jones's ?

 

[Taffy7hfa]

Latest Arc Flash PPE being issued to RAC rescue technicians (maybe )

 

[Rotorhead500]

Should the safety equipment not have stopped the Tesla before it hit the concrete barrier?

They admitted a couple of weeks ago, that their self-driving capability is... erm... heavily dependent on human intervention!

 

[Flyinspanner]

Zafiras had a tendency to self immolate...
Scimitars too, suffered petrol pipe fractures by the carb, would mist the engine bay, and bingo your fibreglass car was suddenly a rolling chassis

 

[Craiglxviii]

Zafiras had a tendency to self immolate...
Scimitars too, suffered petrol pipe fractures by the carb, would mist the engine bay, and bingo your fibreglass car was suddenly a rolling chassis

Wasn’t aware of Zafiras. But the Scimitar took planned obsolescence one stage too far!!!

 

[Blobcat]

Wasn’t aware of Zafiras. But the Scimitar took planned obsolescence one stage too far!!!

Whenever anyone mentions a Scimitar, Princess Anne had one has to be mentioned...

 

[A.J.]

Whenever anyone mentions a Scimitar, Princess Anne had one has to be mentioned...

She had eight in all

 

[Craiglxviii]

She had eight in all

What about Scimitars?

 

[DSK]

Interesting...… It says it was on flames AFTER crashing so that could happen to any car. What I do find truly staggering and unbelievable is the effort reported to control the fire.

Austrian fire service reported it took five fire engines, 35 crew members and two hours to finally get the fire under control.

 

[Taffy7hfa]

Interesting...… It says it was on flames AFTER crashing so that could happen to any car. What I do find truly staggering and unbelievable is the effort reported to control the fire.

I can already hear insurance companies calculating the increased risk and putting up their premiums

 

[Rotorhead500]

Interesting...… It says it was on flames AFTER crashing so that could happen to any car. What I do find truly staggering and unbelievable is the effort reported to control the fire.

If you recall when Hamster pranged that Rimac, the (Swiss?) fire service reported it took them 5 days to fully extinguish the car as battery packs kept reigniting.