Response number 732 (!) on the TeslaMotorsClub forum about this accident has quotes from Elon's blog and the email sent by the owner - he did not quote a time, but from pictures in one of the earlier responses (Google Map satellite view of the scene) you get an idea that the Model S traveled quite some distance after hitting the large piece of curved heavy metal object, since the car had to exit the Carpool lane, get to the exit (I do not know how far away that one was) and stop before the intersection at the bottom of the exit - that is probably where the driver first became aware that the car not only had an impact with an object and he was directed off the freeway to resolve power loss, but that the front battery module was actually on fire, why else would you drive to the end of the ramp and only stop at the light, exactly where you normally stop before pulling out into the crossing road? So, this EV was still driving with one (of 16) modules punctured and the fire was contained in that one module due to internal firewalls between the modules. Fires always become more spectacular, producing more smoke, by random things that burn and give lots of smoke, such as tires, hoses, carpet and some joy from oils contained in the vehicle such as brake fluid.
Here is the whole discussion on the forum: http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/22173-Model-S-Accident-Fir e/ and the blog from Elon with the response from the driver, Rob Carlson: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/10/04/elon-musk-explains-how-model-s -caught-on-fire/ Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com Email: [email protected] Private: http://www.cvandewater.info Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven Lough Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 10:58 AM To: EV Discussion List RCVR Subject: [EVDL] MIT - Report on Tesla Fire - No HYPE, more facts... This is good. Cooler heads prevail.. ( http://www.technologyreview.com/view/519921/what-the-tesla-battery-fire- means-for-electric-vehicles/ ) As I have been telling friends, If you rupture your GAS TANK, and there is ignition, you may have SECONDS to get out to safety. Puncturing the battery pack on the TESLA-S probably caused a series of shorts, and wires and batteries had a "thermal runaway" I would LOVE to know the time-line from the owner. From the moment of striking the metal on the road to the first sign of a problem, to the first smoke, and finally catching other stuff on fire. Any one out there in the TESLA community can add these facts to the situation ? ? I would guess several minutes or more. -- Steven S Lough President: Seattle EV Association 206 524 1351 WEB: www.seattleeva.org ----------------------------------------------------------- Visit the SEVA website at http://www.seattleeva.org Our New Forums are at http://www.seattleeva.org/smf If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to [email protected] with a subject of: unsubscribe seva This message was built for stevenslough=comcast.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20131004/7612 4dcf/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
