Watch As A Charging Tesla Model S Is Consumed By Fire
It’s a fairly nightmarish start to the year if you go back to your charging electric vehicle, only to find it engulfed in flames. Particularly if the vehicle in question is a pricey Tesla.
That’s exactly what happened to one unfortunate Model S owner in Brokelandsheia, Norway, with a catastrophic fire reducing the car to a smouldering shell and destroying part of the Supercharger it was hooked up to. This video footage of the fire has since emerged, and it makes for painful viewing.
Since this is an electric car, local firefighters had to use foam, rather than water, to extinguish the flames. And since the Model S uses a large quantity of batteries made from lithium - a rather flammable substance - the fire was difficult to extinguish.
One silver lining is that no one was injured in the blaze. The cause of the fire is still unknown.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Thats why I won’t like eletric cars
As far as i know, the GT3 was not electric
I dont like electric cars because of personal preferences, but both electric and petrol (and other fossil fuels) cars can catch on fire. For electric car you need a flaw in manufacture and for petrol car you usually need a fuel leak (or similiar) which can happen easily.
That’s what happen when you forget to unplug the charger.
Usually that’s not what happens and that’s what should not happen.. Why do you think that would happen when you don’t unplug the charger though?
Flames should only come out of an exhaust. Nuf said.
Well some times it comes out of the engine bay so..why not?
Nooo why u dis????
I think this is a Tesla with internal combustion engine
** external :P
lol i thought the picture was a tesla burning at a gas station for a second….
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I always thought foam is used to extinguish cars with ordinary engines as well…
I believe CO2 is used for combustion engines since they have oil, petrol/diesel and putting foam over it wouldnt do much. But I’ve seen foam aswell, not sure why to be fair.
2 minute ad for a 30 sec video? f**k you youtube….
Use Ad Block for F**K sake !
Did he try turning it off and on again?
Fire caused by Li-Ion batteries? This is news to me…………