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3 Cybertrucks Caught Fire After Underbody Strikes. Tesla Now Sells a $3,500 Battery Shield Upgrade. (fuelarc.com)

submitted 4 days ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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I mean, I'm glad Tesla built a fix, but it's sort of tacky to ship a $75,000+ truck and then sell the fireproofing separately.

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[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

A shield upgrade? My racecar has that. Made out of 1/4" steel to give extra ~~perfection~~ protection to the oil pan. It was free. Left over metal on the shop floor. Also my racecar isn't prone to catching on fire like a Tesla but, I still have a fire extinguisher in it.

[–] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I feel like you just wanted to tell people about your racecar, but I respect that. May I see a photo?

[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 days ago

I'm only going to say no cause I don't wanna give out my name that's on it lol. I will however give you the guy who won our divisions feature last weekend. Our car is similar under the hood, we just have an 80s Monte Carlo body kit.

[–] invertedspear@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A fire extinguisher ain’t gonna touch a battery fire. There really isn’t much you can do besides keep things away from it while it burns itself out.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

You can drop the whole thing into a tank of water. Cooling it down is basically the only way to stop an EV fire because it's an exothermic, often self oxidizing reaction.

Fire departments are starting to deploy mobile water containers for it.

[–] Bad_Ideas_In_Bulk@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Damage to the cells can make them ignite. Fires cause damage. They are known to reignite later.

But at least you can tow them somewhere else to burn.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Putting lithium batteries in water doesn't sound like the move to me...

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 4 days ago

Lithium batteries contain little to no pure lithium.

It's similar to saying that putting salt in water is a bad move because pure sodium reacts violently with water.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Extra perfection?

[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Clearly I didn't double check my swipe text again 🙃 I failed.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And there I was thinking your oil pan was somehow less than perfect.

[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

Just standard unfortunately lol