White Tesla Model S bursts into flames after sitting in California wrecking yard for THREE weeks: Firefighters had to submerge vehicle in a pit to extinguish its battery

UK Daily Mail ^ | 06/22/2022 | JOSEPH MICHALITSIANOS

[Spktyr]

Marginally, but if it’s an electrical fire it sucks either way.

[mowowie]

White is the free color..

[mowowie]

54 years old and the world has gone frigging retarded...

[Fresh Wind]

FYI, normal internal combustion cars have been hit, taken to a tow yard and burst into flames some time later too.

Yes, but they don't have to be shoved into water-filled pits to extinguish the fires. And they don't generally re-ignite multiple times.

[catnipman]

“Or maybe we need to discharge them after an accident.”

not generally possible with a damaged tesla battery: liquid cooling system kaput, discharge-control circuitry kaput ... any battery discharge generates waste heat, so any attempt to deliberately discharge a damaged tesla battery that contains a significant charge is likely to overheat it and trigger a run-away discharge/heat event that produces thousands of degrees of heat ...

[Spktyr]

The latter isn’t true in the case of electrical fires, I’ve seen that myself. Especially in the cases of internal combustion cars that have a hard to access battery - such as some BMWs and Chrysler - they’ll continue to arc, burn and reignite until the battery can be disconnected or the fire melts the power cables.

[Fresh Wind]

Yeah, but once you disconnect the battery of a conventional vehicle, the problem should be over.

Even if you somehow manage to disconnect the EV battery (400-900 volts) that won’t stop the fire if it’s the battery itself that is burning. The only way to deal with them is to keep them cool by pouring water on them until they settle down.

https://www.firehouse.com/operations-training/article/21255066/university-of-extrication-electric-vehicle-fire-suppression

[Spktyr]

Once the battery’s involved, yes. I’m pointing out that there are ICE cars that can ignite well after a crash and be a huge pain to extinguish too so it’s not entirely a BEV problem.