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Maybe it’s just me but that sounds like a fire/problem waiting to happen if the temperature sensors fail?
by katbyte 3y ago
Maybe it’s just me but that sounds like a fire/problem waiting to happen if the temperature sensors fail?
- rootusrootus 3y agoAssuming it's true, then probably the sensors are fail-safe. But I'm not totally convinced Tesla is going over the cable rating. A lot goes into the rating of a particular cable -- everything from conductor material and size to the insulation around the conductors, proximity of conductors, etc. Not to mention the liquid cooling. It's plausible that supercharger cables are rated for more than 600A.
- SEJeff 3y agoSupercharger v1 and v2 cool passively. The v3 and v4 cables are actively liquid cooled. They’re designed to just stop if the sensors fail.
- jandrese 3y agoMaybe, but over billions of charging hours I have not heard of any stories about chargers catching on fire yet. I have to assume that if one of them did catch on fire it would be all over the news, the media is starving for anti-EV stories.
- katbyte 3y agoYour just not looking. 2 min google https://electrek.co/2019/11/18/tesla-supercharger-station-fire/ https://electrek.co/2019/11/18/tesla-supercharger-station-fi... Not to say they are unsafe or anything but it’s not unheard of