Teslas are bursting into flames in Florida after being flooded during Hurricane Idalia | Saltwater and lithium-ion batteries are a bad combination::undefined
Teslas are bursting into flames in Florida after being flooded during Hurricane Idalia | Saltwater and lithium-ion batteries are a bad combination::undefined
I’m all for bashing Tesla. It’s good fun. But this applies to all EVs and lithium ion batteries that came into contact with salt water.
Bad TechSpot! Bad!
I wonder if a laptop would blow up, too. Probably, right?
Classic click baiting. If it was about laptops the title would contain ‘Apple’. Popular brands work well in titles.
Depends how well the battery is packaged. Here’s a cheap disposable AA lithium battery dropped in a bowl of water - it bursts into flames almost instantly:
https://youtu.be/cTJh_bzI0QQ?si=dgkKYSqo-zXulNt_&t=345
However they had to disassemble that battery. If you just dropped the undamaged battery in the water nothing would’ve happened.
So - this really is Tesla’s fault. They should be wrapping a water tight barrier around the batteries. It’s one thing for a battery to catch fire after a serious crash. Fair enough. But it shouldn’t happen in floodwater.
One of the YouTubers I watch, Tavarish, is rebuilding a flooded McClaren. McClaren went to great lengths to water proof the car (IIRC almost all the connectors for the electrical harness and many of the other cables/wires in the car were all fine). The car is an engineering marvel and it still had damage done to the battery and almost every inch of the car had water intrusion.
Not disagreeing with you but salt water tends to fuck shit up. Maybe a better solution is some kind of system with a series of sensors and other inputs that could disable the battery until it’s checked out? Or maybe better education on how dangerous lithium batteries can be.
There’s not much to disable unfortunately. Provde a short circuit path between the anonde and cathode and you’re going to get thermal runaway. You could try inside the cell protection, but that’s going to be pretty expensive given a Tesla containing thousands of smaller capacity cells. Other OEMs use larger “large format” pouches, but they still a have hundreds.
He does find some other worrisome things when going through that car.
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It’s in the article.
The title is still clickbait.
Sort of…two Teslas caught on fire…I haven’t heard of any other EVs spontaneously combusting.
Teslas are by far some of the most popular EVs. When someone thinks EV they think Tesla.
At least near me I see 10 teslas for every ID.4, taycan or ev6. Until someone else steps up their game tesla has quite the lead on sales thanks to their head start. Volkswagen is the only company making a fairly affordable EV that people actually want and that only states recently. EV6 could catch up but Kia dealers are almost universally shit here in the US.
Where I’m from. I see 50 ID4 for every Tesla, and that’s being generous. The world is a bigger market than just the US.
Blame the author https://www.techspot.com/community/staff/dragonslayer101.498521/
Titles often get set by the editor. Writers often only suggest them.
Seems like editors are a problem
They are a big problem ya.
yes they’ve been lol. always @ tesla with this shit
Yeah definitely, I remember sailing in the ocean when I was in Sea Scouts and one of our leaders had his battery let out the magic smoke on his phone, no lithium fire luckily