California firefighters use 6,000 gallons of water to put out "spontaneous" Tesla car

[serendipity]

Perhaps you might launch an investigation before speaking.

The only effective extinguisher for Class D lithium battery fires is a copper based one. Otherwise you need thousands of gallons of water to cool the battery down followed by a fire blanket to exclude oxygen.

[T. A. Gardner]

Well, let's pile it on...

Teslas are one of the most expensive cars to insure in America.

https://www.valuepenguin.com/tesla-c...0steel%20frame.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/i...esla-insurance

The cost is anywhere between 30 and 60% higher depending on model and company insuring it. This means any savings made in not using gasoline v. charging is likely eaten up by paying more for insurance.

Then there's this

Tesla EVs, Even Mildly Damaged, Are Being Written Off by Insurance Companies
https://flipboard.com/@caranddriver/...randdriver.com

On top of much higher insurance rates, insurers are more likely to write your Tesla off as a total loss than fix it. That in part drives the insurance rates. Why are they writing off Tesla's for what could seem minor damage? Because the cost of parts and the difficulty of repair even with minor damage is such that it often exceeds or comes close to the total cost of the vehicle. Once you hit about 75% of the vehicle's value, an insurer simply writes the vehicle off because it's cheaper to do so.

[Into the Night]

Tesla caught on fire while the driver was on Highway 50 in Rancho Cordova Fire officials said that nothing was wrong with the car before it combusted

Firefighters used 6,000 gallons of water to extinguish a Tesla Model S that spontaneously burst into flames on a busy highway outside of Sacramento on Saturday.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...a-Model-S.html





They are a ticking time bomb

Could be from corrosion from the recent flooding.
There will probably be a rash of these in the SDTC.

[Into the Night]

Looks like car buyers don't give a shit. BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!

Tesla bursts into top 10 best-selling cars in the world with 2 models;
industry should be scared
Tesla has burst into the top 10 best-selling cars in the world with not just one but two models in 2022. It’s something that the industry should be scared of, as manufacturing electric vehicles in volume becomes clearly disruptive.
It’s hard to argue against the fact that electric vehicles are taking over.
Their market shares are rising slowly but steadily in most markets, and while they still account for a small fraction of new car sales, there are a few tidbits of data that point clearly to EVs taking over the industry faster than people think.
A market like Norway is a good example and window into the future of the broader auto industry with now over 80% of new cars sales being electric, and fossil fuel-powered vehicle sales have slowed to a crawl.
Another good example is the fact that all the fastest-growing car models are electric, and they are now even reaching the top 10 best-selling vehicles in the world.
According to data compiled by Focus to Move, electric vehicles, more specifically the Tesla Model Y and Model 3, have entered the top 10 best-selling electric vehicles in the world:
Toyota Corolla: 1.12 million (down 2% vs last year)
Toyota RAV4: 870,000 (down 14% versus last year)
Ford F-Series: 787,000 (down 9% versus last year)
Tesla Model Y: 759,000 (up 88% versus last year)
Toyota Camry: 675,000 (down 3% versus last year)
Honda CR-V: 601,000 (down 18% versus last year)
Tesla Model 3: 596,000 (up 4% versus last year)
As you can see, Toyota remains dominant with three models within the top five best-selling passenger vehicles in the world.
However, every single model in the top 10 is down year-over-year except for Tesla’s two vehicles.

Argument from randU fallacy. Repetition fallacy (chanting).

[Into the Night]

Does it come with a fire extinguisher as standard equipment.

Heh. Any extinguisher might put out the fire, but the car is still totaled.

[Into the Night]

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[Geeko Sportivo]

EVs are a technological dead end. The future is green hydrogen and ammonia.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/gold...er-year-market

The BIG OIL companies are starting to commit to producing Blue Hydrogen, and Detroit has committed to manufacturing Electric Vehicles.

Somewhere there is a middle ground they will all commit too, sooner or later.

But you are right about the Blue Hydrogen being a part of our future.

[Into the Night]

No one said these buyers were smart!

McDonald's sells more hamburgers than anyone else but that doesn't mean it's the smartest choice to make when it comes to buying a hamburger

Define 'smartest choice'. Does that mean one that only YOU agree with??

[Into the Night]

was that area impacted by the recent flooding does anyone happen to know ?

They car may have been. The Sacramento area did sustain a fair bit of flooding.

[Into the Night]

SHIT HAPPENS! And nothing is more dangerous to the public than Trucks Carrying Gasoline!

The truck wasn't just sitting there, like the EV was.
There are also a lot more dangerous things than a gasoline truck fire.

[Into the Night]

The BIG OIL companies are starting to commit to producing Blue Hydrogen, and Detroit has committed to manufacturing Electric Vehicles.

Somewhere there is a middle ground they will all commit too, sooner or later.

But you are right about the Blue Hydrogen being a part of our future.

Won't happen. I have already described why.

* the hydrogen must be manfuctured.
* the hydrogen must be compressed.
* the hydrogen tanks are high pressure, and subject to hydrogen embrittlement.
* pumping hydrogen fuel can easily take to 30 minutes to refuel a car due to pressure drop and the resulting temperature drop.
* batteries are still required to act as electrical ballast. These are again Li-ion battery packs.
* the fuel cell requires the use of iridium and palladium to manufacturer, two very expensive rare elements.
* even at 3000psi, energy density is much lower than gasoline by weight and volume.

[Celticguy]

They car may have been. The Sacramento area did sustain a fair bit of flooding.

ok thx. water has been a problem with EVs in the past and its not usually immediate.

[Geeko Sportivo]

Won't happen. I have already described why.

* the hydrogen must be manfuctured.
* the hydrogen must be compressed.
* the hydrogen tanks are high pressure, and subject to hydrogen embrittlement.
* pumping hydrogen fuel can easily take to 30 minutes to refuel a car due to pressure drop and the resulting temperature drop.
* batteries are still required to act as electrical ballast. These are again Li-ion battery packs.
* the fuel cell requires the use of iridium and palladium to manufacturer, two very expensive rare elements.
* even at 3000psi, energy density is much lower than gasoline by weight and volume.

Try to think outside the Birdcage!

Thanks!

[Gondwanaland]

No one said these buyers were smart!

McDonald's sells more hamburgers than anyone else but that doesn't mean it's the smartest choice to make when it comes to buying a hamburger

"No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people"

[Hawkeye10]

"No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people"

Its those who went through mind warping at the "elite" universities who are the really dumb ones these days.