After the fire of a Tesla Model S yesterday in the vicinity of Seattle today we know more details of the mishap and Tesla speaks. We knew that the tesla had a mishap with a large metal part and that after the impact the car started to work incorrectly.
The driver attempted to pull out of the traffic until it was the car itself that recommended him to move away from the vehicle For security. The firefighters, notified by the driver himself, approached the area and tried to put out the flames with water, although as the situation did not improve they used a chemical product to put out the flames. When most of the smoke disappeared, the operators noticed that something was still burning under the ground, the batteries.
In order to access the batteries, it was necessary to lift the car with jacks and drill holes to spray water on the burning battery cells.
This incident has served to demonstrate that batteries are well protected against fire, with cells isolated from each other that make it difficult for the fire to spread quickly, so only a few cells on the front burned, when otherwise they could have burned entirely. The batteries occupy the entire floor of the Tesla Model S. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has insisted on the safety of the batteries and that the fire never reached the cabin.
It is the first time that something similar has happened with a Tesla Model S and honestly, there is no reason to make a mountain of this. More than once and twice, cars with combustion engines have burned and they have not been news.
Source: leftlanenews