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There may be a problem. We can consider the Tesla as a car body bolted on top of a huge battery. Collisions with road debris seem to be sufficient to pierce the
by Pitarou 13y ago
There may be a problem. We can consider the Tesla as a car body bolted on top of a huge battery. Collisions with road debris seem to be sufficient to pierce the battery's armour and start a fire.
This isn't disastrous. Problems like this routinely emerge with new designs. And at least the flammable materials stay in one place (unlike a gasoline engine). But still, a fire's a fire, and I'm sure Tesla's engineers are working overtime trying to figure out a solution.
- bsdetector 13y ago> and I'm sure Tesla's engineers are working overtime trying to figure out a solution. What could the solution possibly be? Puncture the battery and it catches fire, and the battery covers almost the entire bottom of the car. Practically speaking there's only so much steel you can put on the bottom of the car. It seems that Model S spreading the battery across the bottom of the car may simply be a defective design.
- alexeisadeski3 13y agoMore armor.
- Pitarou 13y agoUse your imagination! The conditions that cause the fires seem to be narrow and well-defined enough that a clever workaround is possible. Maybe add an extra layer of sacrificial armour? Or move some cells away from the vulnerable region.