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Title: Tesla Model S Burns To A Crisp During Supercharging In Norway: Reports
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jalopnik.com
URL Source: http://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-s-b ... ng-supercharging-in-1750581400
Published: Jan 1, 2016
Author: Jalopnik
Post Date: 2016-01-03 08:18:00 by Operation 40
Keywords: Tesla, battery, electric
Views: 817
Comments: 4
01.01.2016: The Tesla Model S has acceleration like a supercar, and sometimes it can burn like one too. According to news reports, a Model S caught fire at a Supercharger station in Norway this afternoon. State news agency NRK reports (via Google translate) that no one was injured in the blaze. The owner of the car set it to charge and then left, and then at some point it began to burn, NRK reported. Users on Reddit’s r/teslamotors claim the Supercharger station was a “temporary” one. More photos of the blaze can be seen at the newspaper Fædrelandsvennen. The exact cause of the fire is unknown, but firefighters had to use special chemical foam to extinguish the burning lithium batteries. Few other details about the blaze were immediately available, but Tesla will likely investigate the fire along with local authorities, as the automaker has done before...sniped read more: News article with a lot of images:Tesla tok fyr på Brokelandsheia Poster Comment: Maybe there's a reason for all the rules and regs re: Lithium batteries This covers spare lithium metal and spare rechargeable lithium ion batteries for personal electronics such as cameras, cell phones, laptop computers, tablets, watches, calculators, etc. This also includes external battery chargers (portable rechargers) containing a lithium ion battery. For lithium batteries that are installed in a device (laptop, cell phone, camera, etc.), see the entry for "portable electronic devices, containing batteries" in this chart. https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/hazmat_safety/more_info/?hazmat=7
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http://www.igjerstad.no/tesla-tok-fyr-pa-brokelandsheia Spare (uninstalled) lithium ion and lithium metal batteries must be carried in carry-on baggage only. When a carry-on bag is checked at the gate or at planeside, all spare lithium batteries must be removed from the bag and kept with the passenger in the aircraft cabin. The battery terminals must be protected from short circuit.
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#1. To: Operation 40 (#0)
A dubious excuse. Barring gross mismanufacture of the charge station, the car should have stopped the charge cycle itself. This is why all high-end lithium batteries use smart controllers to control the charge cycle. Tesla likely will have more data on the dead car. You also can't rule out that one or more cells may have been damaged physically or even that the car had been modified by the owner.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestState news agency NRK reports (via Google translate) that no one was injured in the blaze. The owner of the car set it to charge and then left, and then at some point it began to burn, NRK reported. Users on Reddit’s r/teslamotors claim the Supercharger station was a “temporary” one. More photos of the blaze can be seen at the newspaper Fædrelandsvennen.
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