Teslas are bursting into flames in Florida after being flooded during Hurricane Idalia | Saltwater and lithium-ion batteries are a bad combination::undefined
Side note - people need to be super careful buying used cars for the next several months because of scammers cleaning up flooded cars and brining them north to sell. Check under the carpets and so on, etc. Avoid Florida cars.
I remember that happened after a huge Mississippi flood in the 90s. Definitely be careful
katrina. was not that long ago and tons of those cars got drug all over.
No, this was before that.
Probably both tbh
Lol. I meant it’s happened before. Katrina cars poped up all over with clean titles. And huge issues. But history like repeating since we never fixed the hole in the damn dam and there’s no little dutch boy around to save everyone.
Every car flooded with salt water is a fire waiting to happen. Either a literal fire, or a fire sale. Salt water does horrible shit to all metals.
Couldn’t have spent the extra ten dollars potting the battery casing with conformal resin Elon?
Tesla CEO is considering lawsuit against saltwater.
I assumed he was going to blame the Jews.
I was under the impression that battery packs are watertight so where is the fire starting?
They are likely IP rated in some form or fashion, that means they are rated for protection for a period of time at a certain depth. Deeper water or longer time in water means you still get water past the seals.
It could also be a control fault or short on the electrical side allowing the other components to catch fire or overloading the batteries causing them to overheat and catch fire.
I doubt their designs are hurricane + flood proofed.
Also the high voltage disconnect/fuse is under the seats. Flood that and you’ve got a problem.
I truly doubt anybody at Tesla thinks that far ahead. A prime example of this was that magnificent cyber truck showcase.
Seems like the NHTSA needs to expedite regulations around protecting batteries from salt water.
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Let’s keep pretending like Teslas and EVs are horribly dangerous compared to ICE cars.
https://www.torquenews.com/14335/tesla-and-other-evs-catch-fire-19x-less-often-gas-cars
> be a burger driving muh Tesla (sniffs farts)
> suddenly drowned in flood
> bursts into flames
Such is life in Burgeristan
Does insurance cover this?
Does this have anything to worry consumers about in cold climates where cars could accumulate snow and road salt on them, and then say - park the car in the garage where it all melts into salt water?
Did any other makes of electric vehicles also burst into flames in Florida?
You’re not going to have frozen salt water on the underside of a car. That’s kind of what the salt is for. You will get salt water eating at the metal.
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B-b-b-b-but we need to save the planet. Just like how we need to switch from plastic straws to chemical paper straws, to save the planet.
Do you know water is a chemical?
