Tesla fire
- Thread starter Gilligan
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glhs837
Power with Control
I agree it does belong here. I'll put the odds at under 10%, honestly. Barring a loading error that punctured one of the cases, which isn't easy, its simply not common for EVs to catch on fire without an outside force like a crash, charging a bad battery, or running over something.
But now that they are burning, I dont see how they get it out. Possibly controlled flooding? Not sure what, if anything, they could save of the cargo then though.
black dog
Free America
Im betting it gets towed where an environmental mess is not an environmental mess.
Kinnakeet
Well-Known Member
To hell with electric vehicles they are worthless
See the video and scroll down to a second video for more burning cars. 
x2!
abc11.com
x2!CA man says screen on his new Tesla froze, causing vehicle to be stuck at 83 mph on freeway
The driver from Irvine said all of the buttons and switches - including turn signals and hazard lights - were not working.
Calif. man says screen on his new Tesla froze, causing vehicle to be stuck at 83 mph on freeway
The owner of a new Tesla Model 3 was left in shock after the car's main features allegedly froze while he was driving on the freeway.
abc11.com
OccamsRazor
Well-Known Member
5 more MPH and he could have gone back in time to NOT buy his Tesla!See the video and scroll down to a second video for more burning cars.
CA man says screen on his new Tesla froze, causing vehicle to be stuck at 83 mph on freeway
The driver from Irvine said all of the buttons and switches - including turn signals and hazard lights - were not working.
Calif. man says screen on his new Tesla froze, causing vehicle to be stuck at 83 mph on freeway
The owner of a new Tesla Model 3 was left in shock after the car's main features allegedly froze while he was driving on the freeway.
glhs837
Power with Control
See the video and scroll down to a second video for more burning cars.
CA man says screen on his new Tesla froze, causing vehicle to be stuck at 83 mph on freeway
The driver from Irvine said all of the buttons and switches - including turn signals and hazard lights - were not working.
Calif. man says screen on his new Tesla froze, causing vehicle to be stuck at 83 mph on freeway
The owner of a new Tesla Model 3 was left in shock after the car's main features allegedly froze while he was driving on the freeway.
So he was able to safely pull over. Good. Wifes 2015 Jeep did something similar a couple years back. Pulling out of the Best Buy to get onto 235, the whole damn thing shut down. Infotainment, main cluster, everything went dark, engine died.
Anything made by man can fail.
glhs837
Power with Control
Nothing to see here. Perfectly fine. "SAVE THE PLANET!"No battery fire problems here.
"DOWN WITH GASOLINE!rotest-protest-protest: :buyelectric: "SAVE THE PLANET!"
Considering the rate of fires between gas cars and electric ones, there isnt really a problem.
Clem72
Well-Known Member
See the video and scroll down to a second video for more burning cars.
CA man says screen on his new Tesla froze, causing vehicle to be stuck at 83 mph on freeway
The driver from Irvine said all of the buttons and switches - including turn signals and hazard lights - were not working.
Calif. man says screen on his new Tesla froze, causing vehicle to be stuck at 83 mph on freeway
The owner of a new Tesla Model 3 was left in shock after the car's main features allegedly froze while he was driving on the freeway.
So I saw this story three different places, everyone seems to agree the dude is a moron and shouldn't be driving any car. He had his car in cruise control and apparently his center console froze. He then decided to forget how a car works and didn't hit the brake or use the switch to disengage cruise control, just sat there staring at the gauge.
Let me ask you, in any car you ever drove, if the speedometer got stuck would you suddenly be unable to figure out how to stop the vehicle?
Clem72
Well-Known Member
Seriously its like 30 to 1 when adjusted for number of cars on the road. The only reason anyone thinks it's a problem is that every damn EV fire gets a national news story where regular cars catching fire doesn't even make the local paper.
Well I guess we’ll have to take your word for it but in 40+ years of driving, friends with cars coworkers with cars, personal vehicles, company vehicles, cars along the highway and roads that I was driving on I have only ever seen one car catch fire.
One.
Now if it were really as common as you guys seem to think it is I should’ve seen dozens to hundreds over the course of 40 years.
No… Just one.
One.
Now if it were really as common as you guys seem to think it is I should’ve seen dozens to hundreds over the course of 40 years.
No… Just one.
Grumpy
Well-Known Member
One more than I have.
Clem72
Well-Known Member
You have the entire internet at your fingertips. You don't need to take my word for it, use google. Try typing NHTSA and car fires.
Clem72
Well-Known Member
I used to drive ~115 miles round trip every day for 10+ years. In that time I saw two big rigs hit head on, I saw a big rig plow through the emergency ramp and keep going, I saw a driver cut across 3 lanes and disappear into a ravine, I saw Arnold in his Hummer at least a dozen times, I saw a horse get hit by an f-150 at about 70mph, and I saw many many cars either on fire or their burned out husks.
Back in 1977, I was with my friend and her parents and we came upon a recently doused car-b-que. Mom told us to not look, then you know happened, we looked! The body that was pulled out of the car and placed on the gurney, still in the sitting position. The sheet wasn't big enough to cover the arms and legs.