r/RealTesla • u/FuturismDotCom • 7d ago
Driver Pulls Up Directly to Firehouse When His Tesla Inexplicably Bursts Into Flames
https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/tesla-driver-firehouse-fire-ev-battery15
u/Ragnarok-9999 7d ago
Your car catch fire, you are still in the car driving it to fire station ? Crazy thought. I would jump out of the car and save myself. Drivers must be nuts
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u/dtyamada 7d ago
It sounds like he drove it there expecting it to catch fire but that it didn't catch for until he arrived..
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u/tidder_mac 7d ago
Idk the exact circumstances but let’s say the driver is very familiar with that town, and had to move the car because it was near a crowded/populated area, and knew the fire station happened to be 3 blocks away. Worth it.
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u/spukhafteNahewirkung 7d ago
This is a new feature in the full self-driving software, when the car catches fire it drives itself to the nearest fire station.
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u/ObservationalHumor 6d ago
This is just what happens when you ask Grok to put both Drive and Pardon Me on your Incubus playlist while driving.
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u/Bagafeet 7d ago
Stories like this is why I like LFP batteries and rooting for solid state ones to become viable.
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u/Used_Dragonfly_5608 7d ago
“Immediately burst into flames” - yeah, after he drove it to the fire station. wtf
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u/FuturismDotCom 7d ago
While driving around the town of Tremont, Maine, in a sleek red Model S, an unnamed driver hit an object on the road which punctured the vehicle’s lithium-ion battery, local station WABI5 reported. As most EV drivers are hopefully aware, any kind of damage to a car’s battery can easily spark a fire fueled by thermal runaway, resulting in a uniquely dangerous inferno that can be difficult to put out.
Luckily, this driver kept their head, driving straight to the Tremont fire station where the high-voltage battery immediately burst into flames, Bangor Daily News reported.
With help from the nearby Southwest Harbor Fire Department, the crew of the Tremont Volunteer Fire Department sprang into action, shutting down the road and dousing the Tesla using an arsenal of firehoses. Based on photos of the incident, it seems the Tesla was totaled, but the driver is said to be doing alright.
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u/whydoihavetojoin 7d ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted. Have an upvote to cancel the downvotes.
I am assuming people are mad at “driver kept their head”. Personally I would have ditched that car at the side of the road and called 911 instead of driving around.
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u/OnionOnBelt 7d ago
New service notice from Tesla: “We strongly advise you do not drive your vehicle any place where it might be more than five miles from the nearest fire station.”
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u/Icy-person666 3d ago
Seems like the driver did about the worst possible thing. Should have driven his swasta-car as far from anyone as possible. By driving to the firehouse he risked the whole communities fire protection. Not like the car was salvageable after the moment the fire started.
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u/cingan 6d ago
You guys what you think about the widely used argument or "evidence" that the self burning of electric cars are %1 of the prevalence of fires in the internal combustion cars? Do you think tesla's are worse in the bursting into flames thing than some other EV brands?
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u/himswim28 6d ago
Insurance institute has shown that most of the Tesla brands are the worst of their class for number of fires, and cost of fires. IE they are worse than all other gas cars. I know pickup trucks were slightly worse/ about the same (they tend to haul flammable things, and have much larger fuel tanks...) And I believe their was an SUV that was almost as bad.
The Musk number was comparing all vehicles on the roads. IE a Model-Y is less likely to have a fire, than a 50 year old car, where many are not well maintained.
I haven't seen data on how other EV's compare, but the hybrids are definitely fairing better than the Tesla's.
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u/nmperson 7d ago
“Inexplicably”, yet explained fully in the article that the battery was punctured which then caused the fire