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This Is what becomes of your belongings after the house fire because you bought a Tesla and parked it in the garage to charge overnight. True story and actual picture at waste transfer station.
There's a little plastic toy fire truck in there. I sure hope the kids made it out okay. Everything smells heavily of smoke and a few things are scorched pretty good.
I wonder what the rate of spontaneous (non-accident-related) thermal excursions is for all mass-produced electric vehicles, and how it compares to the rate for non-electric vehicles.
Normally, this is not the sort of question I would even think to ask, except that earlier this year, one of my employees' cars (a non-hybrid diesel BMW 5) caught fire in the parking lot a few hours after having been parked. The fire seems to have originated from within the dashboard on the passenger side.
I suspect the vast majority of electric vehicle fires are the result of poor wiring infrastructure in the residence, not the car. No other appliance in the home will draw as much current for as long as a BEV will. Continuous loads can be a real bitch at flushing out deficiencies.
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Screw in fuses! Those things are a hoot. I've ran my Miller 211 welder on screw in fuses for hours on end before. FunFfact, once you blow one you may as well drink a beer or two because they will just keep blowing until the wiring / holder cool down.
A wheel I think we got our money worth out of. Stupid thing was shaking the whole building and I couldn't take it anymore.
Does not really matter where it starts from, but battery fires are a bitch. Essentially they keep burning/self-fueling till all the energy stored in the cells is converted. Even in small-ish battery packs that's a huge concern; example from 2 years ago in FSAE.
If I saw that car operating on the street and then parked in a public place, I don't know if I'd be able to resist the temptation to pour something down that pipe which ought not to be there.
If I saw that car operating on the street and then parked in a public place, I don't know if I'd be able to resist the temptation to pour something down that pipe which ought not to be there.
What you poured in there would be a true measure of your creativity.
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