Teslas are bursting into flames in Florida after being flooded during Hurricane Idalia | Saltwater and lithium-ion batteries are a bad combination::undefined

  • Schwim Dandy
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    421 year ago

    Wouldn’t this be applicable to any EV and not just a particular brand that it’s popular to throw into titles for maximum views right now?

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Maybe all brands, but can’t be sure.

      Tesla is “known” or at lest publicised in multiple places that they have pretty bad quality control, and I guess also bad design on some parts.

      So bad protection on the battery at tesla design? Maybe? Is there a “review” on car internals somewhere? I have no idea.

      Could another vehicle survive the same thing? Who knows, maybe? Maybe not?

      Tho there are some who said they went with a tesla directly into water slashing over the hood. So maybe some are waterproof?

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        I looked at this awhile ago. There is a google doc maintained by some anti-Tesla investors who track every fire that can find. It is still much lower than the US average fires per car.

        I think it gets more attention because:

        1. some people are financially incentivized and;
        2. battery fires really are a much worse deal than a normal car fire

        The advice I’ve been given (on train/bus batteries) is to shove the vehicle if safe when it starts; then do whatever possible to fully submerge in fresh water. Obviously that isn’t really feasible.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        You asked a lot of questions that you didn’t know the answer to. A good journalist would have attempted to answer most of those questions in the article. Seeing how these questions weren’t answered, it’s safe to say this was a clickbait article written by a trash journalist.

    • Ocelot
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      11 year ago

      Tesla doesn’t advertise so any clickbait involving them is fair game.

      You know who does adverise? Other competing manufacturers and boy do they have a hard-on for advertising on news sites and broadcasts. Coincidence?