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

volsrock said:
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/ar...s-water-extinguish-burning-Tesla-Model-S.html





They are a ticking time bomb
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This sort of thing has happened many times. Fire experts still dont seem to be able to come up with a good way to put out EV fires. Not just that, I think I know that they burn very hot and put out lots of toxic fumes....exactly of the sort that might cause cancer.

This EV thing has not been thought through.
 
ExpressLane said:
And how many more ICE vehicles than EV do you think there are? I think you get the message. BTW:The answer is there are about 279.7 million more ICE vehicles than EVs in the US.
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Well naturally there are more Internally Combustion Engine driven automobiles than EV's in the USA currently.

It'll be that way for years on years, as not many people can even think of buying a new car in this high inflationary period of high interest rates, and while Detroit only started ramping up their engineering to produce them just a few years back.

But they are trending, as their sales are doubling and tripling every year now moving forward.

It's a progression sort of thang!

EV's were invented even before ICE vehicles. But back before the turn of the century before last, batteries were basically huge tanks full of water, and the vehicles they were in were impractical and dangerously top-heavy having to haul around all that weight and water sloshing around in them. EV's of that era were self-defeating and people like Henry Ford had another idea that matched the times.

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Geeko Sportivo said:
Well naturally there are more Internally Combustion Engine driven automobiles than EV's in the USA currently.

It'll be that way for years on years, as not many people can even think of buying a new car in this high inflationary period of high interest rates, and while Detroit only started ramping up their engineering to produce them just a few years back.

But they are trending, as there sales are doubling and tripling every year now moving forward.

It's a progression sort of thang!
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They are typically called Internal Combustion Engines.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
This sort of thing has happened many times. Fire experts still dont seem to be able to come up with a good way to put out EV fires. Not just that, I think I know that they burn very hot and put out lots of toxic fumes....exactly of the sort that might cause cancer.

This EV thing has not been thought through.
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Not strictly true as there are class D extinguishers, not sure how effective they are on EV lithium fires though.
 
Are people rooting for electric cars to fail?

Are we in the 21st century that enamored with late 19th century technology like the internal combustion engine?

OK, I love the sound of a well tuned gasoline engine as much as anybody, but if the time has come to move on,
I wouldn't root against the successor.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
Are people rooting for electric cars to fail?

Are we in the 21st century that enamored with late 19th century technology like the internal combustion engine?

OK, I love the sound of a well tuned gasoline engine as much as anybody, but if the time has come to move on,
I wouldn't root against the successor.
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EVs are a technological dead end. The future is green hydrogen and ammonia.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/gol...n-could-grow-into-$1-trillion-per-year-market
 
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Hawkeye10 said:
Perhaps you might launch an investigation before speaking.
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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.
 
Well, let's pile it on...

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

https://www.valuepenguin.com/tesla-... 1,and difficult to repair than a steel frame.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/insurance/tesla-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...jdbH8IA:a:3199498-14f7d4c9a0/caranddriver.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.
 
volsrock said:
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/ar...s-water-extinguish-burning-Tesla-Model-S.html





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Could be from corrosion from the recent flooding.
There will probably be a rash of these in the SDTC.
 
Joe Capitalist said:
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.
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Argument from randU fallacy. Repetition fallacy (chanting).
 
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