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I'd say that the Tesla model S is a bit fragile, but still quite safe What's fragile about 6mm armour plate? And what's safe about 100% of the fires having a s

by 001sky 13y ago

I'd say that the Tesla model S is a bit fragile, but still quite safe What's fragile about 6mm armour plate? And what's safe about 100% of the fires having a single source? It sounds like TSLA needs to put the battery somewhere more protected. They have it exposed right now (presumably for lower CoG and better handling). That might just be a design flaw. I think we can still keep an open mind on LiIon untill the designs are iterated upon more.

stcredzero 13y ago
What's fragile about 6mm armour plate? Urgh. Nice context switch. To be fair, the system as a whole seems to be a bit fragile, which is what I was actually saying. But in this specific strawman context: Lots of things are "fragile" when a piece of steel has a significant fraction of the momentum of a car behind it. To me, still very dependable and robust for something with sportscar performance.