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"Authorities said they used 32,000 gallons of water over four hours to extinguish the flames because the vehicle’s batteries kept reigniting. At one point, Herm
by everdrive 6y ago
"Authorities said they used 32,000 gallons of water over four hours to extinguish the flames because the vehicle’s batteries kept reigniting. At one point, Herman said, deputies had to call Tesla to ask them how to put out the fire in the battery."
Wow. Have there been other electric car fires which are so difficult to put out?
- JKCalhoun 6y agoI was under the impression they are all this difficult to put out. But maybe it depends on how many cells ruptured. Hitting a tree dead center is going to take out a lot of cells I guess.
- camjohnson26 6y agoThere have been many situations like this, including cars reigniting days later. Also a few cases of cars randomly catching fire while parked: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-tesla-cars-catch-on-fire-2019-4?op=1 https://www.businessinsider.com/why-tesla-cars-catch-on-fire...
- o_p 6y agoThis is even worse than the deadly autopilot, EV cars are much more likely to burn and the fire is much hard to extinguish, but no one who tries to sell you an EV will tell you "hey you are more likely to die by being burned alive!"
- matwood 6y ago> Wow. Have there been other electric car fires which are so difficult to put out? (In)famously the electric super car that Richard Hammond crashed. The Rimec One Concept car is all-electric. Hammond's model was left destroyed and took five days to fully extinguish https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/5092851/richard-hammond-crash-footage-shows-grand-tour-presenter-screaming-cp-as-supercar-flips-and-rolls-down-hill/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/5092851/richard-hammond-cras...