California firefighters had to douse a flaming battery in a Tesla Semi with about 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish flames after a crash, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.
In addition to the huge amount of water, firefighters used an aircraft to drop fire retardant on the "immediate area" of the electric truck as a precautionary measure, the agency said in a preliminary report.
First thing that popped into my head. Hopefully, it's not possible to hack these EV's and somehow set them all ablaze. Hard to imagine these things popping off all over the country and burning down towns.
ReplyDeleteRegarding this: News coming out of Beiruit that Hezbollah pagers are being remotely detonated by Mossad today. Not out of the realm of possibilities...
Deleteaccording to WIRED they are still as hackable as ever: https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-ultra-wideband-radio-relay-attacks/#:~:text=Since%20the%20Tesla%203's%20keyless,to%20enter%20a%20four%2Ddigit it's even worse, imo, now that these cars are self driving they can be made into drones and do the bidders wish. imagine a fleet of them crashing down a bank wall, a school, or whatever else they have in mind.
DeleteAND the insurance companies for all sides are chomping at the bits again -
ReplyDeletethe cargo, the truck, fire damage, the driver, landowners, firefighters holy hell what a mess
everyone in the story is fucked again & they get paid.
Chemist: You can't put out a lithium battery fire with water.
ReplyDeleteFirefighter: MORE WATER!
The water isn't to put out the fire but to keep it from spreading to adjacent cars/homes/grass/etc. until it finally burns out. In most cases not much of the water, if any, will reach the battery compartment unless the fire department can breach the compartment housing the battery pack. Even then all the water does is cool some things off to keep them from burning. But it won't extinguish the burning batteries.
DeleteEVs are nothing more the rolling incendiary bombs waiting for the right conditions to ignite.
ReplyDeleteI work with Lithium-Ion batteries as part of my job and I constantly remind my colleagues that they are almost like thermite grenades with a loose pin. Once they start burning you can't put them out.
If I see a Tesla in the parking lot, I park as far as possible from it. Before I retired we bought a new piece of safety gear for each plane, a fire containment kit something like this.
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50,000 gallons weighs 400,000lbs. How much diesel was burnt hauling the water to the flaming Tesla?
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yall remember when that chevy bolt, dolt, spark ? ignited in the parking garage, on the 3rd level - It cooked the shit out of everything & and the " media" buried the story
ReplyDeleteNow, now, now ... can't have a news story piss on The Narrative
Delete"Zero emission vehicle"
ReplyDeleteI had an in-ground pool in my back yard growing up. 50,000 gallons of water would have been enough to fill it four times.