I mean, I’m glad Tesla built a fix, but it’s sort of tacky to ship a $75,000+ truck and then sell the fireproofing separately.
I mean, I’m glad Tesla built a fix, but it’s sort of tacky to ship a $75,000+ truck and then sell the fireproofing separately.
A fire extinguisher ain’t gonna touch a battery fire. There really isn’t much you can do besides keep things away from it while it burns itself out.
You can drop the whole thing into a tank of water. Cooling it down is basically the only way to stop an EV fire because it’s an exothermic, often self oxidizing reaction.
Fire departments are starting to deploy mobile water containers for it.
Putting lithium batteries in water doesn’t sound like the move to me…
Damage to the cells can make them ignite. Fires cause damage. They are known to reignite later.
But at least you can tow them somewhere else to burn.