This thing really turned into an inferno!
https://www.reuters.com/business/au...ile-owner-was-driving-lawyer-says-2021-07-02/
https://www.reuters.com/business/au...ile-owner-was-driving-lawyer-says-2021-07-02/
Model S Plaid catches fire while being driven
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From Plaid to Orange in three days flat!
Here we go again.
Wait... Lemme guess... the driver was in the back seat 100 yards from his home going 120 mph on AP on a private road?
Wait... Lemme guess... the driver was in the back seat 100 yards from his home going 120 mph on AP on a private road?
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Worst part of EV car fires is they can be nearly impossible to put out.
It would be interesting to see if the burn rate is higher with Tesla or it gets reported more often.
I'll give ya one guess...
I saw a regular motor car burning to the deck off the bridge right after the Monitor Merrimack tunnel on interstate 664 north bound. . . I think that car was possibly modified and suffered a massive failure.
Fires happen in anything involving moving anything. Whether it be powered by batteries, gasoline and or diesel.
Fires happen in anything involving moving anything. Whether it be powered by batteries, gasoline and or diesel.
Yeah but we remember the ones that water can't put out. Those are quite remarkable. These rides need their own risk pool.
The worst part is their silly electric door system failed so the owner had to force his way out of the inferno’s that Tesla’s become on fire unlike gasoline vehicles.
They do however electric vehicles burn significantly more intense and more drama as infernos. Fire department can control the fire rapidly on ICE however EV it’s a hot mess. Every technology has shortcomings and EV is you have a potential for a raging inferno under you.
Good luck pushing a locked door open, either in a tesla or another car. Those double locked doors only unlock electrically, so a battery failure means breaking a window.
He's not just trying to get a replacement tesla, he's trying to get early retirement...
Try again before making up stuff
Bart Smith, head of the digital asset group at Susquehanna International, owned the Tesla Model S Plaid that burst into flames on Tuesday in Pennsylvania, the New York Post reported.
His firm holds $1.1 BILLON in Tesla shares.
Note to self, roll down window at the first hint of trouble.
It would be interesting to see if the burn rate is higher with Tesla or it gets reported more often.
Tesla has repeatedly stated that their cars are 10x less likely to burn than the average car..... 5 fires per billion miles. With 10B Tesla miles driven, that means 50 fires. But most Tesla cars were produced in the last few years, and the comparison is to vehicles that have been on the road and average of 12 years.
Unfortunately, that does not tell the entire story. (discounting one low end brand that tends to burn frequently due to low quality) As VERY FEW new gasoline cars burn spontaneously. A new Taycan burned in FL, while in the garage and plugged in. At the time, Porsche had produced just a handful of the things. Same with the Bolt, Volt, Kona, Jag, and others. Some seem to randomly combust while parked, or days after an accident, and a few while being driven, even without damage, and the web is chock a block full of burning EV pictures.
Maybe the bigger news is that they can't be easily extinguished and will continue to burn despite firefighters attempts. That is very unlike conventional vehicles, which can be extinguished.
Quite frankly, EV's do this while other new cars do not.
Tesla has repeatedly stated that their cars are 10x less likely to burn than the average car..... 5 fires per billion miles. With 10B Tesla miles driven, that means 50 fires. But most Tesla cars were produced in the last few years, and the comparison is to vehicles that have been on the road and average of 12 years.
Unfortunately, that does not tell the entire story. (discounting one low end brand that tends to burn frequently due to low quality) As VERY FEW new gasoline cars burn spontaneously. A new Taycan burned in FL, while in the garage and plugged in. At the time, Porsche had produced just a handful of the things. Same with the Bolt, Volt, Kona, Jag, and others. Some seem to randomly combust while parked, or days after an accident, and a few while being driven, even without damage, and the web is chock a block full of burning EV pictures.
Maybe the bigger news is that they can't be easily extinguished and will continue to burn despite firefighters attempts. That is very unlike conventional vehicles, which can be extinguished.
Quite frankly, EV's do this while other new cars do not.
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But is the fire 10x worse?It would be interesting to see if the burn rate is higher with Tesla or it gets reported more often.
Tesla has repeatedly stated that their cars are 10x less likely to burn than the average car.....
BMW has had this for 25 years or so
There is a mechanical manual latch to open the doors in the case of a battery failure.
Maybe the owner didn't know? They showed us when we got our car.
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I think this guy had the proverbial “fire lit under his $$$” on a three day old new car to him so not sure the manual backup was intended for last seconds escape.
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