Norwegian Car-B-Q: Tesla Model S Bursts Into Flames, Burns To A Crisp While Charging
The Norwegian owner of a Tesla Model S found an unexpected f(i)ringe benefit during a cold Friday afternoon when shortly after he had parked his luxury electric car at a supercharging station in Gjerstad, and left, he realized the car could serve as a very quick and efficient, if quite toxic, source of heating for the cold Scandinavian country, after the Model S spontaneously burst into flames.
Nobody was injured in the incident in which the Tesla unexpectedly started burning, at which point emergency services were alerted.
By the time firefighters arrived, the car was completely ablaze.
As Norway's FVN reports, the fire department could not use water to extinguish the electric car fire, so it just let Tesla burn out completely while dousing it with foam and watching the luxury paperweight burn to a crisp.
FVN adds that the only way to extinguish electric car fire is by using water with a copper material. However, it is too costly for the Norwegian fire departments. There were more f(i)ringe benefits: according to firefighter, Steinar Olsen, it is dangerous to breathe the smoke from the fire because it has fluorine gas in it, and when an electric car burns down the toxic gases emitted are far more dangerous than those from a normal car.
As Jalopnik adds, the Model S has been involved in a handful of documented fires in the past few years, as a result of both crashes and charging, although Tesla has disagreed on the latter cause.
Photos from the scene of the incident courtesy of FVN:
On various previous occasions when a Model S burned down under similar circumstances, the stock price of TSLA reacted accordingly, although it always rebounded after Elon Musk soothed the market's nerves about the "one-time" nature of the Car-B-Q.
However, now that even Consumer Reports yanked its glowing endorsement of the car, the rebound may be delayed especially if the NHTSA finally wakes up and forces Musk to do another recall for a car which unexpectedly combusted just because it was being charged. One thing is certain: a recall "fixing" the battery pack would have a massive price tag attached to it, and it is possible that after years of ignoring the company's cash burn and liquidity, those two "fundamental" drivers of value will finally come back to haunt the market with a vengeance.
In other news, Chinese corporate fraudsters just came up with a new and improved excuse for misplacing their financial records: "we left it in the Tesla as it was charging and everything burned down."
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"Musk...able to take credit for all the hard work done by some engineers in a lab"
Not like Steven Jobs or Bill Gates, of course, who did all the brilliant engineering work themselves.
If you want to learn about Positioning and Leverage, you and your kids will have to stop attending Sunday School for Goys, where they teach you how to be a good little sheep, rather than "How to become a shepherd or wolf".
IIRC, Gates didn't make MS-DOS...
"I lost all of my PM's in a Tesla recharging accident."
Dude sift the Ashes.
The charging station was on a barge that subsequently sunk...
I wonder what it costs to insure the damned thing... particularly in a country like Norway !
Leaving one's dog in the car, responsibly with the windows rolled down, might just not cut it anymore.
Saving the planet, 4 burning tires at a time.
Oh wait, what?
+72.5!!!
What a gem! ;-)
Looney
Weirdly enough, the is about all of the car that didn't burn :)
"Oh, the humanity..."
Tesla the new WMD.
Rockets to the MOON? Book me a Return Ticket or would a one-way be more economical?
I still have fond memories of my old Ford Pinto:
http://imcdb.org/images/022/674.jpg
At least you knew when it would catch fire hahaha.
The truth is, I lent to my ex-Mother-in-Law all the time ::))
O.K. so which of those 2 vehicles belonged to ISIS?
Something else bothers me about electrics and hybrids. A bad accident could potentially expose hot wires. I have no interest in these cars. But if I did, I would want to know the answer to that question.
They say they have a shut off switch that automatically cuts off power in case of an accident. But I wouldnt want to find that out.
Its a cooling problem.
They stack millions of cells together, don't cool them and they melt down like molten lava.
http://youtu.be/SMy2_qNO2Y0
And don't put water on lithium.
Can't think of a dumber way to power an aircraft.
Coal would be smarter.
In a way, it actually IS coal powerred (or about 40% anyway in the US, higher in China, though your actual mileage may vary)
Lithium ion batteries overheat all the time because the technology is substandard.
They have them in large jets now and they also overheat and cause crashes.
But hey, we can bomb the desert and blame some shadowy group of out of work shia to bomb the middle east for us.
A bad accident could cause a fuel tank to rupture. In hollwood movies, every car crash causes a large devastating explosion.
With oil headed to 20$ a Barrel, dont bother.
"Highwayman"
(originally by Jimmy Webb)
[Willie Nelson:]
I was a highwayman
Along the coach roads I did ride
With sword and pistol by my side
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade
Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade
The bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five
But I am still alive
[Kris Kristofferson:]
I was a sailor
I was born upon the tide
And with the sea I did abide
I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico
I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow
And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed
But I am living still
[Waylon Jennings:]
I was a dam builder
Across the river deep and wide
Where steel and water did collide
A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below
They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound
But I am still around
I'll always be around, and around and around and around and around...
[Johnny Cash:]
I'll fly a starship
Across the Universe divide
And when I reach the other side
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
And I'll be back again, and again and again and again and again...
Damn I miss Waylon and Johnny
Here is a list of famous people from history who believe in re-incarnation.
http://www.johndenugent.com/english/english-reincarnation-usually-wipes-...
North Western Europeoids (sp?) and South Asian Caucasoids (Indians) did not evolve with Semite theology. The whole idea of a one angry God in the sky, who usually has a large beard, is alien thought to these people groups.
North East Asians (Han tribes) evolved with ancestor worship as their religious type.
Let's call the North Western Europeans, Persians, Greeks, Most Russians, and South East Indians as Aryans.
The Aryan race of people, are easy receptors for reincarnation.
This also gives Aryan peoples the willingness to fight and stand up for what they believe in, because they can come around again to get it right next time.
Also, these peoples created religions with both a man and woman component, so they see the Earth as a mother. Ergo, they are more prone to be respectful of the earth.
Financial Capitalism, and middle eastern religions that promote mans domination over both earth and animals is a toxic combination- where earth and her creatures are raped to feed usury in financial capital.
Way to go Elon, your cars have well to wheel high costs (total cost includes externalities like disposing of batteries and pollution).
Your cars and your companies are also rentiers in that you require high tax breaks to sell the cars. Rents are thefts in the form of prices.
A small diesel car is a very efficient solution for personal transportation: yet our crazy world seems to lower prices for bull shit solutions, and create high prices for efficient solutions.
Anybody can make a product and sell it, if the market it rigged.
Tesla=lithium ion batteries=more $ from walstreet and MIC to keep crappy 1940's era tech going for the masses
http://youtu.be/tz4dnSZKFUI
Drats...foiled again!
Need to do a remake of "the thing" movie with hover boards and teslas . ". "Crazy swedes "
I think they're Norwegian. lol ; )
http://youtu.be/YJ_285hGXW0
tsla p/e = -42 but don't worry about elon, he got plenty.
What makes a muskrat guard his musk? [/cowardly lion]
May want to try charging a bit slower.
may want to consider how fucking stupid driving an electric car in norway is.
Ironically, global warming will take care of that for Norway. In 20 years, those batteries will perform optimally up north.
I read something saying they were big in Norway because they're the one car the gov doesn't tax the ass off unlike other "luxury" vehicles.
True? Dunno can't be bothered checking.
luxury car with no heater. lulz.
Every petrol station there has digital price readouts on their signs, they change like every 15 min depending on where oil is trading. Its Insanely expensive.
Indeed. Driving a diesel would be much smarter there, if you wanted fuel economy and price.
In a pinch, you could run that old diesel on home-processed deep-fry oil.
That's it, Tesla's are no longer allowed as carry-ons for air travel.
You know it's fully charged when the fire goes out.
Lmao!
Comment of the day!
zerohedge has been talking down the Tesla share price since it was in the $20's, now at $240. ZeroHedge - the new Tepper.
Look for a gap up on TSLA on Monday morning. See, it's like this - everyone sees how it's not making any money, but Elon's got connections so he'll get all the money he wants to keep TSLA going, so shorting it on bad news just doesn't make any sense. It's so 20th century...
What do you mean "taking down"?
ZH will often "talk up" assets. Especially gold, when it's at $1700 and climbing. Why, I've read tons of ZH articles, that flag price surges of Gold or Silver. All the way to their present day surges.
In the long run... the prices of PM will recover. If you're still solvent or alive by then.
Me, I've learned that Diversification is the only way to go, no matter what the Elmer Gantrys of finance/investment proselytize here or elsewhere on right wing sites.
Whats with the ads here, site is unbearable. and i have 2 different ad blockers runnig.
Bet you're using a PC, running Microsoft Usher. Usher makes sure you get all the ads you don't want, because there's money in it for somebody.
You need more than just an adblocker, you need a javascript blocker.
Noscript.net is your friend. It lets you pick and choose which domains are allowed to run scripts in your browser.
Also, the EFF recently released privacy badger, which watches for tracking activity and reacts to it without having to use (white/black)lists.
https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
Chrome plus ghostery works for me.