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It's not a rebuke of grid-scale batteries, it's a rebuke of Tesla's implementation of it, or perhaps the design of the site if it wasn't planned out by Tesla en
by elihu 5y ago
It's not a rebuke of grid-scale batteries, it's a rebuke of Tesla's implementation of it, or perhaps the design of the site if it wasn't planned out by Tesla engineers. One would expect that the batteries should be better isolated from each other to some degree so you don't get a chain reaction, and there to be automatic fire suppression (plain water, probably) on site and ready to go.
It's not clear from the article what exactly went wrong, but it looks like they probably lost at least one shipping-container-sized battery pack.
Should you have a Powerwall in your house? Maybe, maybe not. I would feel safer with a design based on less volatile cells, like LFP. No reason to use technology that's unnecessarily dangerous when there are reasonable alternatives.
- teslafire124 5y agoThe worst part about it is that that instability is on public display every time we get another battery fire. It shakes American confidence in EVs when it's the country that most desperately needs to adapt non-fossil fuel cars at a higher rate. I wish we knew more about the implementation process...
- manicdee 5y agoSo accompany every battery fire report with reports of all the fossil fuel fires in the same period.
- teslafire124 5y agoThe EV fires look worse from a public perception perspective. I am sure there are plenty more fossil fuel car fires, but seeing a full EV car engulfed in flames multiple times is not a great look. I'm just saying they need to do better if we want people to go more green
- manicdee 5y agoPerfectionism is the worst enemy. You pretend to be an ally but then treat any failure as a total disaster.
- teslafire124 5y agoOkay then. Tell me what you think can be done to increase the adoption of EVs in the United States?
- manicdee 5y agoGive fuel fires the same coverage as EV fires. Every gas station catching on fire or exploding. Every car spontaneously catching fire. Every home burned down because a fuel burning vehicle caught fire in the garage. Just give proportional air time to incidents based on fires per vehicle. This one BEV got half an hour of air time during the week? Why aren’t there a hundred hours of fuel burning vehicles catching fire? This one BEV came off the road at high speed, hit a tree and all the occupants died? Why aren’t there an equal number of minutes for the non-BEV fatal single vehicle accidents?