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Originally posted by Sigmund:

https://www.denverpost.com/202...oulder-firefighters/

Electric vehicle catches fire, explodes in Boulder garage Saturday morning

No injuries were reported and the family evacuated safely, according to Boulder Fire-Rescue
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I wonder how toxic the house and all the contents are now?

In my 30 year flying career I experienced at least one of every kind of emergency except a fire. (Well, there was a nosewheel fire in an ancient Cessna with an updraft carburetor, but we were parked and it was quickly extinguished..)

A rechargeable battery fire in an aircraft cargo hold is the biggest nightmare scenario these days. In the cabin the flight attendants are trained, and have equipment, to extinguish a battery fire, and yes it has happened more than once already.

A small laptop battery fire in cargo would be a disaster. Thinking about what a thousand pounds of car battery would do is just mind boggling.

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Originally posted by Fly-Sig:

A small laptop battery fire in cargo would be a disaster. Thinking about what a thousand pounds of car battery would do is just mind boggling.

I'm sure you're aware of this tragic incident. Nightmare scenario indeed...

There are a lot of stories about people transitioning from horse's to horseless carriages as well.

Good friend of mine was restoring a 70s era Z-car and was making it electric. Had it parked in his shop next to his beautifully restored 56 Ford truck, all of his tools, etc.... Burned the shop and everything in it to the ground.

It was a Volvo hybrid.

Not a EV but regardless not a good situation.

^^^Technically, it was a 'Plug-In' Hybrid, so for all intents & purposes, an EV...Just sayin'

I’m excited about the future of Tesla. Installed their wall charging connector in the garage already, even though I haven’t purchased a Tesla yet. Been buying the heck out of their stock though, the last year and a half.

this is too good to be true

On the KTLA website, someone stole a Tesla.

https://ktla.com/news/local-ne...wood-police-pursuit/

A police chase ensues

Tesla battery dies...

sounds like the best possible outcome

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
this is too good to be true

On the KTLA website, someone stole a Tesla.

https://ktla.com/news/local-ne...wood-police-pursuit/

A police chase ensues

Tesla battery dies...

sounds like the best possible outcome

I don’t get it. Has a car never run out of gas while running from the police?

I don't know, I've not been keeping track...but its the first time that I've read a story about a stolen electric vehicle that has the battery die in the middle of a chase

It wouldn’t make the news when a car ran out of gas in a police chase…

It doesn’t make the news when ICE cars catch on fire…

Thought of this thread this morning.
Saw an HPD cruiser on my commute, a Ford Mach-E

Yes , it could have run out of juice,

Much more likely the owner got notified and just shut the car down.


I am pretty sure neither the reporter didn't speak with the owner.
To obtain all the facts

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Originally posted by bendable:
Yes , it could have run out of juice,

Much more likely the owner got notified and just shut the car down.


I am pretty sure neither the reporter didn't speak with the owner.
To obtain all the facts

I belong to the Mach E forum and a few have had their Mach stolen. It takes a certain level of sophistication and knowledge to steal EV car. Usually the first thing the thieves do is to disconnect the connection of the vehicle from the owner. Once that happens there is nothing you can do. You can’t track it…nothing.

You would think that there would be some sort of verification to disconnect but there isn’t.

And now you have scumbags doing this to the charging stations:

Copper Scrappers Target Tesla Superchargers As Metal Prices Soar

No thanks, I'll stick with gas

^^^ And this is why we can't have nice things...

How will Musk protect Superchargers from thieves?

More importantly, violent crime and theft are a byproduct of failed social justice warriors in progressive states and metro areas that care very little about law and order and more about the destruction of the country.

https://twitter.com/ClownWorld...rs-metal-prices-soar

Ooh! Ooh! I meant to post this last week, and totally let it slip my mind.

There's a fellow I know who's a pompous, arrogant, snotty, "I'm way better than you" sort of guy, and he likes to brag about running Ludicrous Mode full-time in his high-dollar Tesla. (Evidently you're just supposed to use that in small doses.)

Anyway, he's come to this end of the country from that end of the country, to "reorganize and reinvigorate the company," and has in the process made a bad impression on a lot of people. As the story came to me, he arrived at work one particular day a week or so ago, rolled around back, and plugged his car into the shore power port (which was installed for the calibration team's use) to charge (as he evidently does every day). [Why bother charging at home, when you can let the company pay for it, right?] The "corporate" fellas were there waiting for him, apparently with his walking papers.

Why is any of that relevant to this thread? Because as the story goes, he had to wait for an hour -- in his car -- for it to charge before he could leave the premises.

That had to be absolutely infuriating, as well as embarrassing.

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Originally posted by vthoky:
The "corporate" fellas were there waiting for him, apparently with his walking papers.

Why is any of that relevant to this thread? Because as the story goes, he had to wait for an hour -- in his car -- for it to charge before he could leave the premises.

There's the Walk of Shame and then there's the Charge of Shame

At least when an ICE car's fuel catches fire, it takes a chain of events (leak of fuel and an ignition source) to occur. Battery fires occur of their own accord through an internal fault.

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Originally posted by PASig:
And now you have scumbags doing this to the charging stations:

Copper Scrappers Target Tesla Superchargers As Metal Prices Soar

No thanks, I'll stick with gas

Cutting the cable on something that can provide 480v and 500 amps. I hope they get what they deserve. A free lesson on conductivity.