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Tesla battery explodes in home while owners try to charge it
WALB ^
| 01/30/2024
Posted on 01/30/2024 8:45:39 AM PST by devane617
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:30:05 AM PST
by
BipolarBob
(My investment choice for 2024 is pre-ban menthol cigarettes. )
To: webheart
It wasn’t even an electric car battery. It was a regular car battery. Most car batteries are AGM or lead acid. This one was a lithium battery. It actually should have been fine but most lithium batteries have some sort of circuitry between them and the charging system.Lithium protection circuits only work when paired with chargers designed for lithium batteries. You can't use a standard lead-acid charger because the charge profiles are different.
Lithium chargers will charge the first 90% at high rates. The remaining 10% of the charge needs to be done at low rates. Lead-acid battery chargers are constant-rate chargers. They don't monitor battery charge state as do lithium chargers.
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:33:48 AM PST
by
Ol' Dan Tucker
(For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
To: Cold_Red_Steel
In 1976 we had a Plymouth Volare thing with the factory slant six, fueled by four LP tanks in the trunk. It was a GREAT CAR!. It was bought at an auction of federal fleet vehicles. My dad got it for about $400.
Salt and rust-rot ruined it by 1982.
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:39:42 AM PST
by
blackdog
((Z28.310) Be careful what you say about our leaders. Your refrigerator )
To: devane617
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:45:32 AM PST
by
HIDEK6
(God bless Donald Trump. )
To: devane617
Runing 30 amps for 10 to 15 hours is not in the scope of any household electrical system.
To: devane617
Cary Police say the owners of the Tesla removed one of the batteries from the car and took it in their house to charge it Saturday. Bad move. Such a thing can surely not be covered under any Tesla warranty...expressed or inplied.
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posted on
01/30/2024 9:49:10 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.)
To: webheart
None of my ten or so battery chargers have a setting for a lithium iron battery,
47
posted on
01/30/2024 10:04:24 AM PST
by
meatloaf
To: webheart
A critical fact completely obscured by the headline.
Elon Bad. Boeing Bad.
48
posted on
01/30/2024 10:11:19 AM PST
by
xoxox
To: devane617
I am torn about this since I like technology and we need companies like Tesla to keep pushing the envelope, but I don't like it when the Government tries to force something down my throat, especially when its done in bad faith.
And then there is the whole subculture of Tesla drivers which puts me off.
IMHO the vast majority of Tesla drivers are either former Prius or BMW/Audi/Mercedes management types who think their Model S is an acceptable indulgence to the religion of global warming, and enables them to smugly pontificate about saving the planet without having to sacrifice the comforts of a luxury sedan.
Or at least that is what they think until they have to charge the vehicle in an emergency, or rush out of the vehicle when it catches fire due to a minor accident that damaged the battery pack.
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posted on
01/30/2024 10:18:47 AM PST
by
SecondAmendment
(The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
To: blackdog
A friend back in Detroit would look for cars for sale in the south with blown motors. He’d ship them north to receive engines from cars with rusted and ratted out bodies.
He said look for the motors in the north where the road salt and environment will eat the bodies and the bodies in the south where the engines are ran into the ground.
It was about 40 years ago and he made good money doing it.
To: devane617
My Motorcycle Mechanic, who also works on luxury cars, will not allow an electric vehicle in his garage.
To: devane617
Removing the battery from the car and bringing it into your house to charge doesn’t seem like an especially bright idea. In fact, attempted Darwin Award level stupid.
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posted on
01/30/2024 10:24:11 AM PST
by
katana
To: nesnah
Cary - Containment Area for Relocated Yankees It’s nice you shared how to decode that.
So is Hickory NC “Hicks or Relocated/Retired Yankees? Can you figure out Cosby TN… Contains Southerners, Bears and Yankees?
To: devane617
The battery was the same kind of battery used in regular cars. It is what runs the dashboard functions and is totally separate from the big lithium batteries under the car.
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posted on
01/30/2024 10:28:58 AM PST
by
Drawsing
(Fools show their annoyance at once, the prudent man overlooks an insult. Proverbs 12:16)
To: Cold_Red_Steel
Yep. I bought a donor car in 2008. An MGB GT with 655 miles on it, totalled and sitting in a New Mexico desert junkyard. I transfered my northeast Atlantic rusted out bucket of iron oxide with that sunscorched perfection of a body. I had the shell dipped and then plated in zinc chromate. I then acid etch primed it as the finished VIN, and painted her MGB Moss Green.
A quiet, gentle, sewing machine of a car, that took 90 degree turns like a brick on a velcro highway.
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posted on
01/30/2024 10:32:37 AM PST
by
blackdog
((Z28.310) Be careful what you say about our leaders. Your refrigerator )
To: devane617
Can't the manufacturers solve this problem by making the connections on a lithium battery incompatible with standard battery chargers? Similar to the fuel nozzle for diesel not being able to fit in a gas-powered ICE.
Making stuff idiot-proof requires several years of trial and error. Maybe the EV people are hiring the wrong idiots to design their safety features.
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posted on
01/30/2024 10:54:31 AM PST
by
Bernard
(We honor veterans who fought to keep this country from turning into what it now is. --Argus Hamilton)
To: devane617
This is not a Tesla issue.
This is operator error.
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posted on
01/30/2024 11:11:59 AM PST
by
Zathras
To: Yo-Yo
Very clear analysis.
Too bad the reporter didn’t bother to do your research
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posted on
01/30/2024 11:14:01 AM PST
by
Zathras
To: nesnah
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posted on
01/30/2024 11:24:49 AM PST
by
mabarker1
( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
To: Bernard
Most battery chargers have alligator clips.
My NOCO charger has lead acid, AGM, and lithium setting.
When I was researching lithium for my truck camper, I was told that AGM charging profile was very close to lithium.
Most LiPO batteries have a BMS to protect from over charging, and a low and high temp cut off.
I think they are great. Would not want an electric car.
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