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That explosion came from the bed, not the bottom where the battery is. Then there's all the additional bursts outside the vehicle after the initial eruption.
Definitely fireworks in the bed.
Now; were they lit intentionally, or by accident. Heat from the vehicle? Poor packaging/handling? Let's see what else the investigation finds.
My tin foil theory is that it's a political statement. Didn't it happen in front of the Trump hotel there?
It's certainly poetic at the least. A cybertruck and a trump building; comercial products of the two incoming presidents.
This is quite the photo to start the year and presidency:
That’s the first video I’ve seen. It looks almost like fireworks. I’ve only seen smaller batteries explode, but it doesn’t look like this.
That is absolutely not how batteries burn. They offgas hydrogen and that ignites. Like this: https://youtu.be/AWi7AeZaNcI?si=Tl9BGaDbdTOmkvKH
It’s less of an explosion and more of a fast burning flame.
Another example: https://youtu.be/T71cVhxG_v4?si=rawvoZvZxmAPrIxn
Another: https://youtu.be/N98VFQGsxIc?si=OPXGyb7M5GWADfIg
This truck looks like it was blown up.
Hydrogen? It's evaporated solvents.
Well I stand corrected. I was always told it was hydrogen gas. Looks like that’s a myth propagated by earlier open-cell varieties that would vent hydrogen during normal operation.
What I do know from experience is that the gases smell like toothpaste. At least in the smaller lipo jelly roll packs
It used to be hydrogen when charging lead acid batteries, for example. NiMH also produces hydrogen once they are full, but that is internally converted back to water via a catalyst (hence they can be charged at 1/10 forever with only getting warm).
Not sure which chemistry would produce hydrogen during a thermal runaway event.
Lead acid batteries can off-gas hydrogen.
Not sure exactly what liion batteries create other than 'vapor'. It certainly can explode in a similar way.
https://www.evfiresafe.com/ is a good resource on ev fire behaviour.
That’s how I expected it to look, like a scaled up laptop battery fire.
What do you think those rocket-like projectiles are in the posted video? They honestly look like fireworks, like jumping jacks or helicopters.
The updated version of the article says it might just be fireworks. It’s Las Vegas and New Years. Not to mention there’s probably a decent intersection between Cybertruck owners and illegal fireworks enthusiasts.
intersection between Cybertruck owners and illegal fireworks enthusiasts.
Well that's not much of a venn diagram then, just a circle of the entire population with a smaller circle of Cybertruck owners. Because those are the best fireworks.
It looks almost like fireworks
Happy New Year festivities gone wrong?
Sure looks like it.
That’s the first video I’ve seen. It looks almost like fireworks.
That's because it is. Someone stuffed their Trunk full of Fireworks and set them off.
It’s new years in Vegas. Even in the suburbs it’s fireworks everywhere (source: I live here). If the pack caught fire and then they had illegal fireworks in the trunk that would explain it.
This makes a lot of sense... my immediate question would be how hot were the rear motors? Is it possible some fireworks inside the bed got cooked off by waste heat?
We know more now, but fyi the motors are below the battery pack, they really can't affect the cargo area.
I don't think that's correct - the motors are mounted on the front and rear axles - the battery is a flat panel mounted on the bottom of the frame.
So the rear motor would be directly under the bed. The battery is under the passenger compartment.
But you're right, there's more information. Apparently the driver shot himself after parking, which makes it seem like the incident was intentional.
Maga goons not even in power yet and the whole crazy lot of them is already coming apart at the seams. Without democrats to fight it’ll be a whole country of lord of the flies.
I doubt they’ve read the book though so probably lost on all of them all.