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>Sigh, another article focusing on Tesla battery fires when it is a common failure mode to most of not all EVs. The article uses Tesla as a way to catch the re

by jdhn 4y ago

>Sigh, another article focusing on Tesla battery fires when it is a common failure mode to most of not all EVs. The article uses Tesla as a way to catch the readers eye. The actual article shows that Senator Scott asked not only Tesla, but other manufacturers such as Ford, GM, and Stellantis about what they were doing to mitigate this.

judge2020 4y ago
> a way to catch the readers eye. I guess the term "clickbait" is too harsh these days.
lesuorac 4y ago
I suspect its even worse than that. The body of the article doesn't make any claims about a tesla catching fire. It only uses EV: "a series of electric vehicle (EV) fires tied to Hurricane Ian." So there may be 0 tesla fires. I really feel like the article buried the lede though. I really think the bigger story is that the EV can catch fire for weeks after the water damage with (I assume) no warning/diagnostic errors. "“Lithium-ion vehicle battery fires have been observed both rapidly igniting and igniting several weeks after battery damage occurred,” Jack Danielson, executive director at NHTSA, wrote in the letter to Patronis."
- rad88 4y ago
  https://twitter.com/JimmyPatronis/status/1578050503279316992 https://twitter.com/JimmyPatronis/status/1578050503279316992
  - lupire 4y ago
    Please don't link blindly to Twitter. It's 280 characters or an image link, copy it to here, or link to an accessible site like nitter.net.
    - robocat 4y ago
      I think that if someone only wishes to post a link, then good on them. You can use nitter if that works for you. I agree it would be nice if people took the time to write a more thoughtful post, but I also think that trying to convince the internet to improve its behaviour is antisensible.. Perhaps instead of trying to ask others to do something, you could have added a link to nitter, and a 240 character summary (although in this case the relevant thread is wayyy longer than that and contains relevant images, so good luck!) As always: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Disclaimer: I sometimes find guidelines aggravating.
    - rad88 4y ago
      [Video clip of a Tesla EV, on fire from battery damage after Hurricane Ian. A fire crew is dousing it with water. Someone observes that they've put 1,500 gallons on it already.]
      - lesuorac 4y ago
        So why didn't the article's author include that in their article title "Tesla fires after hurricane raises alarm for Florida officials"? Perhaps a (more) Tesla(s) did catch fire after Ian but that claim is not supported by the article.

by jdhn 4y ago

judge2020 4y ago

> a way to catch the readers eye. I guess the term "clickbait" is too harsh these days.

lesuorac 4y ago

I suspect its even worse than that. The body of the article doesn't make any claims about a tesla catching fire. It only uses EV: "a series of electric vehicle (EV) fires tied to Hurricane Ian." So there may be 0 tesla fires. I really feel like the article buried the lede though. I really think the bigger story is that the EV can catch fire for weeks after the water damage with (I assume) no warning/diagnostic errors. "“Lithium-ion vehicle battery fires have been observed both rapidly igniting and igniting several weeks after battery damage occurred,” Jack Danielson, executive director at NHTSA, wrote in the letter to Patronis."

rad88 4y ago
https://twitter.com/JimmyPatronis/status/1578050503279316992 https://twitter.com/JimmyPatronis/status/1578050503279316992
- lupire 4y ago
  Please don't link blindly to Twitter. It's 280 characters or an image link, copy it to here, or link to an accessible site like nitter.net.
  - robocat 4y ago
    I think that if someone only wishes to post a link, then good on them. You can use nitter if that works for you. I agree it would be nice if people took the time to write a more thoughtful post, but I also think that trying to convince the internet to improve its behaviour is antisensible.. Perhaps instead of trying to ask others to do something, you could have added a link to nitter, and a 240 character summary (although in this case the relevant thread is wayyy longer than that and contains relevant images, so good luck!) As always: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Disclaimer: I sometimes find guidelines aggravating.
  - rad88 4y ago
    [Video clip of a Tesla EV, on fire from battery damage after Hurricane Ian. A fire crew is dousing it with water. Someone observes that they've put 1,500 gallons on it already.]
    - lesuorac 4y ago
      So why didn't the article's author include that in their article title "Tesla fires after hurricane raises alarm for Florida officials"? Perhaps a (more) Tesla(s) did catch fire after Ian but that claim is not supported by the article.