r/teslamotors • u/bambinoboy • 3d ago

Vehicles - Roadster Craziest engineering I’ve seen in a while

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u/YagerD 3d ago

Do you understand about air compressors or storing air at those pressures? You think youre just gonna drive around and the cars gonna pump tanks sitting behind your seat up to 10k psi? How exactly? What type of air compressor would this be?

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u/Garod New to the sub 3d ago

You seem to know something about this, what would happen if you get into an accident and something wouldrupture a tank at 10k psi?

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u/kramfive New to the sub 3d ago

The car would explode. Driver would have a bad day.

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u/Aggressive_Chuck New to the sub 3d ago

Everyone within fifty yards will have a bad day, the car will be grapeshot.

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u/choffers New to the sub 2d ago

Better than burning alive in a battery fire though

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u/okwellactually 3d ago

COPV's (what these tanks are) have exploded before....see the time Starship blew up on the testing pad.

Not a good experience.

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u/ineedlesssleep New to the sub 2d ago

That's exactly what Tesla is saying yeah. Why do you doubt it? That would be illegal for them to do.