Not much of Tesla left after fire

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https://www.9news.com/article/traffic/parker-road-ev-fire/73-44f6fad3-2076-43c3-897b-678c7e75a2af

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This fire department has never been trained to properly extinguish an EV car fire. Using a blanket to deprive the fire of oxygen won’t work. The car is proof. The batteries in EVs have their own oxidizers so the car will totally consume itself over 12 hours or so until it looks like what you see in the picture.

Scary when you consider how many older EVs are roaming around. And how many are in home or public garages.

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Why was this article posted?

This is rather old news and common knowledge, imo

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Do gasoline powered cars never catch on fire and burn into piles of ash?

Asking for a friend.

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Only if there is no one around to put them out. Firemen know how to extinguish a gasoline car fire as do some helpful citizens that carry fire extinguishers in their cars! Extinguishers don’t work on EV battery fires.

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Yes of course they do but that avoids the very real issue of spontaneous combustion in your garage, ramps, roads, and parking lots. Not limited to cars though. In our little town there were two residential fires from electric bikes, scooters, computers, etc. the fire department says to park them outside.

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Does parking outside apply to hybrid vehicles. Same batteries?
In the garage I.nstalled a photoelectric smoke alarm. It works in winter cold.
But our system does not call the fire department.

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I learned a valuable lesson from my last home sale. Call the fire department and ask them what are the regulations for detectors in garages in your area. I thought I was doing a good thing replacing and upgrading technology and then failed the inspection. It was a mad dash to get all new ones and installed before my inspection time lapsed.

My current home has heat sensors in the garage space. Smoke detectors tend to cause too many false alarms in garages so heat sensing detectors are used instead. Check your local regulations…

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Yes, it can. The UK fire at an airport parking garage seems to have started with a hybrid Range Rover. So parking in the garage depends on you level of trust in the technology in your car.

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