Tesla big battery fire in Victoria under control after burning more than three days

[thackney]

Tesla big battery fire in Victoria under control after burning more than three days
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/02/tesla-big-battery-fire-in-victoria-burns-into-day-three
2 Aug 2021



A large blaze at Victoria’s “big battery” project has been brought under control by firefighters after burning for more than three days, allowing investigators to begin examining the site.

A Tesla battery bank caught fire while it was being set up in Moorabool on Friday morning, and then spread to a second battery.

The fire burned throughout the weekend and into a fourth day, before it was declared under control just after 3pm on Monday.

Fire crews will remain at the site for the next 24 hours “as a precaution in case of reignition” and will take temperature readings every two hours, the Country Fire Authority said....

[thackney]

[IsailedawayfromFR]

The Tesla cars also go up in flames



Sometimes when it is just parked in a garage

http://youtu.be/sAQlLu5ttOk

[rustynail]

Does lithium smoke have a calming affect?

[Kamaji]

How toxic are those fires?

[Idiot]

The Tesla cars also go up in flames



Sometimes when it is just parked in a garage

https://youtu.be/sAQlLu5ttOk

Dang!  Amazing how fast they catch fire...

[Fishrrman]

Looking at the pic in post 1 above, it looks like that "big battery project" is still under construction and is as-yet non-operational?

What kind of service life will these "batteries" have in the real world?

Doesn't look like a reliable "storage device" to me...

[thackney]

Looking at the pic in post 1 above, it looks like that "big battery project" is still under construction and is as-yet non-operational?

Correct.

What kind of service life will these "batteries" have in the real world?

With active thermal management, 10 years lifetime is possible provided the battery is cycled within a restricted 54% operating range.

Life Prediction Model for Grid-Connected Li-ion Battery Energy Storage System
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy17osti/67102.pdf
May 2017

i.e. Put limits puts on how fast batteries are charged and discharged to prevent overheating and operating between 23% to 76% of physical capacity to charge/discharge.

Doesn't look like a reliable "storage device" to me...

It appears to be the first ever fire of utility type installations and was not yet in operations.  Could be a construction mistake or something out of normal happening.