Current Events > 6000 gallons of water used to put out Tesla car fire

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Monolith1676
01/30/23 7:20:58 PM
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tesla-catches-fire-on-highway-50-near-rancho-cordova/ar-AA16RZsF

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WrestlinFan
01/30/23 7:27:04 PM
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How many gallons would an average car take?

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Monolith1676
01/30/23 7:33:25 PM
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WrestlinFan posted...
How many gallons would an average car take?

Some things I have seen online say 500 to 1000 gallons.

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MorbidFaithless
01/30/23 7:36:10 PM
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but why

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Monolith1676
01/30/23 7:38:55 PM
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MorbidFaithless posted...
but why

Because of the batteries.

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VampireCoyote
01/30/23 7:39:28 PM
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thats about how much water each and every restaurant uses, every single day

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thronedfire2
01/30/23 7:40:50 PM
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does the foam stuff they have not work?

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Questionmarktarius
01/30/23 7:41:05 PM
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MorbidFaithless posted...
but why
You shouldn't use water on flammable metals. It just makes them burn more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRKK6pliejs
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Kalk
01/30/23 7:43:42 PM
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Should have just let that crappy car burn.

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Monolith1676
01/30/23 7:59:31 PM
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thronedfire2 posted...
does the foam stuff they have not work?

No and even Tesla recommends foam not be used to try to put it out

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thronedfire2
01/30/23 8:48:36 PM
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Kalk posted...
Should have just let that crappy car burn.

in the future the ozone layer will be destroyed by burning Teslas when water becomes too scarce to waste

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the_pika
01/30/23 8:55:42 PM
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Teslas are starting to make me nervous.

why not let a grown up company like Ford or VW figure this out first? Elon cant be trusted
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Turtlebread
01/30/23 8:57:24 PM
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Thats a feature not a bug

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Cuticrusader09
01/30/23 9:01:23 PM
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thronedfire2 posted...
does the foam stuff they have not work?

Isnt that the stuff that is super bad for the environment? Like you have to make sure it wont get into waterways?
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Kakapo
01/30/23 9:03:11 PM
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the_pika posted...
Teslas are starting to make me nervous.

why not let a grown up company like Ford or VW figure this out first? Elon cant be trusted
Those companies werent interested before the Tesla made it obvious there was demand for EVs

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noisetank
01/30/23 9:12:56 PM
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you gotta pay extra for it to not catch fire.

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Suolevram
01/30/23 9:14:20 PM
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What if they smothered the fire instead of using water?

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VampireCoyote
01/30/23 9:15:42 PM
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are you saying they should suffocate the fire by adding more fire to burn up all the oxygen

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whitelytning
01/30/23 9:22:58 PM
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I know right. Tesla is so bad. Why cant they be like all these other cars and not use a flammable fuel. Other cars dont catch on fire. Elon is such a head.

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Malcrasternus
01/30/23 9:27:13 PM
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EV fires are much hotter and more violent than ICE cars, and can persist for days as individual cells continue to fail from the lingering heat; potentially reigniting even days after the initial fire was extinguished.

Lithium fires are no joke.

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Suolevram
01/30/23 9:28:18 PM
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VampireCoyote posted...
are you saying they should suffocate the fire by adding more fire to burn up all the oxygen
A fire blanket

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yO8cVWOqZcg&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE

Better than 6000 gallons of water . Even if it not fully effective.

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tripleh213
01/30/23 9:30:38 PM
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whitelytning posted...
I know right. Tesla is so bad. Why cant they be like all these other cars and not use a flammable fuel. Other cars dont catch on fire. Elon is such a head.


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Malcrasternus
01/30/23 9:49:04 PM
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I hope sodium ion catches on. Cheaper and safer. Just not as energetic, for now at least.

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NeonTentacles
01/30/23 9:57:39 PM
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WrestlinFan posted...
How many gallons would an average car take?
Usually like 100-200 gallons >_> It doesn't take much to put out a standard car fire unless it's something crazy

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Krojen
01/30/23 10:07:47 PM
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the_pika posted...
Teslas are starting to make me nervous.

why not let a grown up company like Ford or VW figure this out first? Elon cant be trusted
It's a problem all EVs will have. Except cars with LFP batteries, which only Tesla uses and are exclusive to their cheapest models at the moment. The Chinese government has invested in LFP production for Tesla/Chinese brands made for their market because of their excellent safety. They don't catch on fire.

As for the "grown up" companies, GM's Bolt kept exploding spontaneously enough for them to recall all of them and halt production for over a year while they couldn't figure out why. Turned out to be bad engineering from cheaping out.

The grown up companies aren't any better and we can't pretend they are just because Elon is a clown. There's a reason why they got beat by said clown in the first place.

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the_pika
01/31/23 3:15:01 PM
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Kakapo posted...
Those companies werent interested before the Tesla made it obvious there was demand for EVs

true. But now they are
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