Tesla Model S catches fire three weeks after getting sent to junkyard

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Tesla Model S catches fire three weeks after getting sent to junkyard

Firefighters ended up submerging the car in a water-filled pit

RONAN GLON
Jun 21st 2022 at 9:40AM

In what sounds like the automotive equivalent of The Walking Dead, a Tesla Model S caught fire three weeks after it was involved in an accident and sent to a junkyard. Firefighters had a difficult time putting out the blaze, and they ended up having to submerge the battery.

Posting on its official Twitter account, the Metro Fire Department of Sacramento explained that it sent crews to extinguish a vehicle fire in a wrecking yard. When they got there, firefighters found a burning Model S that had been wrecked in a non-fire-related accident about three weeks before. Why the electric sedan caught fire after sitting for nearly a month is unclear, but Metro Fire says the Tesla put up a fight.

"Crews knocked the fire down but it kept re-igniting/off-gassing in the battery compartment," it wrote on Twitter.

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https://www.autoblog.com/2022/06/21/tesla-model-s-fire-junkyard-video/

[PeteS in CA]

I don't know what's so hard to understand about this fire. Lithium batteries do not like shock and vibration. While this fire might seem sudden, having broken out 3 weeks after the accident, my guess is that IR video monitoring the car would have shown the car battery area gradually getting hotter and hotter, until fire finally broke out.

Consider Congressional fantasies of all electric vehicles for the US military with this as context.

[Kamaji]

I don't know what's so hard to understand about this fire. Lithium batteries do not like shock and vibration. While this fire might seem sudden, having broken out 3 weeks after the accident, my guess is that IR video monitoring the car would have shown the car battery area gradually getting hotter and hotter, until fire finally broke out.

Consider Congressional fantasies of all electric vehicles for the US military with this as context.

[catfish1957]

[mountaineer]

Just think of the pollutants this burning EV spewed into the atmosphere.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Just think of the pollutants this burning EV spewed into the atmosphere.

Or into the water table since it went underwater.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Consider Congressional fantasies of all electric vehicles for the US military with this as context.

The idea maybe should be all members of Congress should be given EVs?

[libertybele]

Just think of the pollutants this burning EV spewed into the atmosphere.

So much for less pollution and going green.   

[rebewranger]

Totaled Tesla goes up in flames three weeks after crash

A pit and 4,500 gallons of water were needed to put it out
Brandon Vigliarolo   Thu 23 Jun 2022 // 16:01 UTC
 

A totaled Tesla Model S burst into flames in a Sacramento junkyard earlier this month, causing a fire that took "a significant amount of time, water, and thinking outside the box to extinguish," firefighters said.

The vehicle was involved in a comparably unexplosive accident that sent it to the junkyard three weeks ago – it's unclear what caused the Tesla to explode nearly a month after being taken off the road. Like other electric vehicle fires, it was very difficult to extinguish.

"Crews knocked the fire down, but the car kept re-igniting and off-gassing in the battery compartment," the department said on Instagram.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/23/tesla_model_s_explodes_after/