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It Took 36,000 Gallons Of Water To Extinguish A Burning Tesla (jalopnik.com)

submitted 10 months ago by dragontamer to c/realtesla

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A new crash recently in Alabama, but a reminder to something that we all know. Burning Teslas are far more difficult to extinguish than any other car.

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[–] dragontamer 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Everyone uses water to put out EV fires. Because it does work, it just takes a long time and multiple fire-engines worth of water.

Until someone comes up with a better solution, that's all we got. I'm pointing out the European solutions in this thread because they seem more feasible (using "only" thousands of gallons, rather than tens-of-thousands of gallons, of water). But water remains the best idea to stop the reaction.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Edit: someone just educated me. Lithium battery fires are self oxidizing. I was not aware of that. My bad!

How is it the best we have? ~~Deprive the fire of oxygen and it'll go out. Halon does a fine job of sucking the air right out of the fire.~~