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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: 737
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.
Well, I think I will stick with my gas powered Toyota's. Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There are no Carthaginian terrorists.
What's the carbon footprint of that fire? I bet it's greater than the lifetime carbon footprint of a gas-powered car.
I bet you're right. That's a great line, I've already stolen it. ****************** Safety Bump: What if your kids or your pets were in the back? Beware of Tesla. And Beware Tesla's Model 3 Mess While Tesla has been astonishingly vague about how big its Gigafactory must be to support Model 3 production, it's clear that the pilot facility now under construction is inadequate. Tesla is at least two years behind its own schedule for committing crucial suppliers and subcontractors to "partner" with it in the Gigafactory. It is highly doubtful that the Model 3 will cost only $35,000. A base model price of $45,000 is more likely, and 500,000 Tesla vehicle sales in 2020 is unachievable. Tesla's Model S and Model X have had the luxury EV market all to themselves. The Model 3, by contrast, will face formidable competition. Tesla's reliance on Model 3 deposits as interest-free financing presents the company with serious disclosure obligations to a less financially-sophisticated class of buyers.
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.
#2. To: Operation 40 (#0)
" Tesla Model S Burns To A Crisp During Supercharging In Norway: Reports "
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#4. To: misterwhite, all (#3)
Would you have heard the screams before it was too late?
Seeking Alpha Jan. 4, 2016Summary
This company is a train wreck about to happen in slow motion
http://seekingalpha.com/article/3788616-beware-teslas-model-3-mess
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