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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Tailored Asbestos suits for all Tesla owners... Jos. A Bank - buy 1, get free fire extinguisher
...as a BackPack w/a Rip Cord to pull/release everything in 15 seconds so you "might" have a chance to keep yourself from torching for a few moments as you remove your seat belt, open the door, and hope to roll out of the way...
...the backpack might prevent you from rolling...
...okay, sold with Fireproof Bibs/Overalls and Shoes...
They should build these out of oak and cedar woods
At least they'll smell good when they burn
This Musk guy is going to be a huge disaster. Maybe the wierdness of the business world will save him. But his "investments" are peculiar.
These lithium batteries are an endless problem. From some tech stuff I read, rechargeable lithium batteries in cars need to be efficient, but there are always little chunks of metal floating in the electrolyte or whatever. This makes it so they are always at risk of spontanious combustion.
some tech stuff.... wow, thats a hell of s cite.
floating in the whatever......
Always at risk?
jeez... Go to engineering school, learn some words...
I was actually being technically accurate. Buzzwords are for the sales department.
What I said above is all true.
I never here about electrolytes in rechargable lithium batteries. So I don't talk about what I don't know for sure.
At least I'm not bullshitting you.
Why hasnt ISIS been utilizing these cars as weapons, just think of the damage they could do.
I heard that the car was second hand and that the new owner bought it two days before this incident.
Let's wait for the investigation results.
Call me cynical, but for all we know it could be a VERY clever, but insidious, move of someone who is shorting Tesla to such an extend that it's worth it to buy a second hand Tesla and "help" create this situation a bit... nicely playing in on this fear of burning Tesla cars.
Many people forget that in the US alone over 100-120.000 car fires take place each year. So far Tesla had a few, but except for the one today about which we don't know enough, all of those were caused by going though a number of walls at high speeds and other clearly heavy accidents.
Tesla is not sending out these cars into the world without extensive monitoring and management systems and thousands of cars are charged every day..
To quote a remark at Elektrek:
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1) CPO (used) vehicle. Owner had it for two days
2) Temporary supercharger
3) Non-stock wheels. Other possible modifications?
4) Car burned at charger. Doesn’t mean charger burned car. What was inside car? Why didn’t the tires burn?
Lots of questions to answer here.
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http://electrek.co/2016/01/01/tesla-model-s-caught-fire-and-burned-down-...
"The Tesla hopefully carries on .... where Anders Behring Braevik left off .... killing Muslim loving leftists ?" Yours truly, the Norwegian Resistance
I've questioned .... the ramps on Russian and Chinese aircraft carriers .... no one has been able to explain them .... I propose a flight deck with a 7% grade .... the planes land uphill .... and take off downhill .... just like the Isla Cedros airport ?
it's a ski-jump ramp, the brits invented it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_deck#Ski-jump_ramp
Thanks, but .... "the ramp take offs cannot match the payloads of high speed catapult launches" .... it seems to me you would want steadily increasing airspeed .... and a ramp is going to momentarily decrease airspeed .... I'd rather have airspeed and rotate the plane conventionally .... than all the complications of wheel chocks, reving and rotating engines .... even if the plane loses a little altitude after leaving the deck .... it doesn't stop accelerating airspeed .... and with airspeed everything is possible .... KISS (keep itsimple stupid) said my DI (drill instructor) ?
Tesla Motors is staying alive by suckling at the democrat controlled government teat.
They have one more year of government supplied milk left.
When Obama is out of office, and if he is replaced by a republican, that milk will stop and Telsa Motors along with other Musky enterprises will be history.
Telsa buyers are far from poor but they get $7500 tax break from the Feds. Many states give tax breaks too some as high as $5000. So the rich get subsidized to buy Musks car. To sell a ICE car in California the manufacturer pays a pollution fee to the state. The state then puts most of those fees in Musks pocket because he is producing a "non polluting" vehicle. The arguement that the electricity to charge his batteries comes from polluting sources falls on deaf ears. Yet he still can't make money. Some say he's losing money to pay for his battery plant, I doubt it, and if that's true he needs a new CFO. Only stupid people pay for expansion from current revenues instead of getting loans or floating bonds. With all the fan boys in the US and on Wall Street hugely overvaluing his stock he has been able to sell his overpriced stock to stay afloat. Some Wall Street clowns claim the stock is worth $450 today based on it's future prospects. They must be smoking low quality dope.
Tesla is an American company
& Americans make good cars
who said that