Thread: Renewable energy exploding

Here’s something that fits right in with the title of this thread...

How many petrol engines vehicles caught fire in the world yesterday? I don't know, but I bet it's more than one.

Well that’s the thing. Tesla engineers are flying out there right now as a parked Tesla has never caught fire before, only ones being driven usually. How many petrol vehicles that had been parked up for hours like this Tesla had, caught fire yesterday?

As for ICE vehicles being driven - well, more Fords in Australia probably caught fire yesterday than all the Teslas ever put together! 😆

But again, you jump to the wrong conclusions when I post things like this - you assume I’m in favour of ICE vehicles over EV which I’ve stated before isn’t the case. Just because I post the link, doesn’t you automatically have to defend it or think that I am in favour of that side over another. 😉

Hmmm, the owner of my Local PO's Pruis caught fire in the garage also, but that was a while ago. He actually got burnt trying to get the thing out of the garage before everything burnt.

Just looking at renewables. Seems for a home kit, solar over wind is the way to go! $$$

In context of fire risk.

Diesel is hard to accidentally ignite, petrol is not. So ICE vs EV is not a good start for comparison.

Compared to diesel cars, evs that have massive lithium battery packs are more volatile and dangerous by far.

When the Tesla pack ignites it surrounds the entire car with intense flames which are almost impossible to extinguish. The ferocity of a 100kwh lithium battery fire is next level! What makes things worse is that these cars have no mechanical linkage on the door handles. If the electrics are out you cannot open the door to help the occupant - even if you could get to it. And it's not easy to get out either when systems fail, the car can lock you in.


We might expect these things to happen in severe impact accidents but how could a parked Tesla, that is not even charging, explode? It's a worrying development.

When it comes to using lithium batteries for home storage - I would place them in an isolated outhouse!!

Originally Posted by Homestar

Well that’s the thing. Tesla engineers are flying out there right now as a parked Tesla has never caught fire before, only ones being driven usually. How many petrol vehicles that had been parked up for hours like this Tesla had, caught fire yesterday?

As for ICE vehicles being driven - well, more Fords in Australia probably caught fire yesterday than all the Teslas ever put together!

But again, you jump to the wrong conclusions when I post things like this - you assume I’m in favour of ICE vehicles over EV which I’ve stated before isn’t the case. Just because I post the link, doesn’t you automatically have to defend it or think that I am in favour of that side over another.

No worries, just putting it in perspective. Q is why was the battery faulty?

I can't recall fully , but when I did my airframe course with the RAAF, they focussed a little on what , if I can remember , was called "thermal runaway" , where for no significant reason the batteries in the aeroplane would go into meltdown causing fires etc.

Isolation of batteries after aircraft was shutdown became an important after flight check.

Possibly with the increase of battery powered vehicles this may become a necessity.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

No worries, just putting it in perspective. Q is why was the battery faulty?

probably cause tesla made it using dreams and false hope.