Believe it or not, I have no position on that. I never even considered a ban but after seeing your post, maybe so?
It is true that’s a lot of lithium battery in a semi.
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Tesla EV SEMI Crash and Fire, Closes I-80
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It is true that’s a lot of lithium battery in a semi.
I'm not being serious on the banning, but I don't think a semi is a very good application of the tech. It makes for a good runabout in my experience. Doing work, not so much due to how much bigger the battery has to be.
My garage isn't attached, but I don't think that would change my opinion of battery power. I think it's an interesting statistic though of how large a battery gets just to have useable range in something like a semi or even the Hummer EV I saw yesterday. A 205kWh battery is nuts considering that's a 9,200lb vehicle.
The semi being 900kWh really is a good question of what we're actually accomplishing here.
I can see another Siri text to speech error in my post. That I corrected, but does not correct on a reply.
All kidding aside, after seeing how bad a fire can be from one of this battery powered Semis it makes me wonder. Why allow a battery that big, knowing the dangers associated with it, and how long it can take to extinguish, along with the manpower and resources to do so. I'm talking about the Semi, not the payload. Clearly at the moment there are better safer choices. Flame suit on. Yes ICE trucks pose a danger too, but we seem to do better with putting out those fires.
I've been unable to find out just how serious the crash was. Being as the battery is not in the nose of the truck but under and behind the driver, and it went off the side of the road at 3AM, I suspect the skidplate was inadequate.
Thousands of pounds of batterys in a truck makes as much sense as using a CVT in one.
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Someone needs to come out with an Electrical Vehicle Containment Unit that can hold a semi. Fast.
https://www.seda-international.com/us/portfolio/seda-elektric-vehicle-safety-container/
Someone needs to start holding Elon accountable for using the public roads and people at large as his guinea pigs.
My issue is with lithium as a whole -- he isn't the only one putting them on the road.
Has Freightliner caught fire? Volvo? Paccar? I don’t know. They all have electric trucks. I think Elon is pushing the envelope a little too far. I think Freightliner has way more electric trucks on the road than Tesla.
By default, lithium-ion of any variety carries this exposure, regardless of brand.
What exposure? Tesla? How many Taycans or Mach Es have caught fire? Bias seems to be showing here.
I don't think that's fair to say. There's a lot more Teslas on the road and they rarely spontaniously combust. It's usually very bad accident damage that is the catalyst for a fire. Even that's not common. A Tesla fire is national news regardless. That said many attribute the ship of Porsches sinking to a VW/Porsche EV product going up in flame which destroyed and sunk the ship.
It is absolutely fair. And nobody will ever figure out what sunk the ship. Stop with your bias.
“Many attribute” lol. Show DATA not conjecture.
They do. Remember when the Musketeer told everyone how quickly Tesla would ramp up and how they had "hundreds of orders." I've yet to see a Tesla semi but have seen four or five Volvo and a few Freightliner semis owned by Pepsi. The odd thing is PepsiCo was the first in line along with Fritolay for deliveries.
It's not bias, you're the one who is obviously biased here. You make it sound like Tesla is some massive random fire risk, yet Porsche can do no wrong somehow. The issue as mentioned is lithium ion and it doesn't like being crushed which is what it seems happened here. Maybe the battery needs encased better, that's something worth approaching. Rarely do EVs no matter the make randomly catch fire without severe damage.
Just show facts. All I’m saying is Teslas are in the the news for catching fires. Porsche, Ford, Kia not so much. Show me numbers to prove Tesla’s catch fire at the same rate per car the previously mentioned manufacturers do.
You're the one who needs to get familiar with the inherent hazards associated with lithium-ion technology, regardless of brand. Here is some 3rd party information to start with:
https://www.assp.org/news-and-artic...n batteries can produce,best way to do that.”
This shows nothing by brand.
