Hi All, >From what I have seen from the forums, Tesla had this issue built into their design. It seems that if there is a battery related fire or fume issue, that the flames and fumes are projected away from the passenger compartment, usually out of the front of the vehicle, in order to allow the occupants a method to escape the vehicle. Hard to imagine an ICE being able to factor this into their design, huh?
Regards, Tom On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Steven Lough <[email protected]>wrote: > > > This is good. Cooler heads prevail.. > > ( http://www.technologyreview.**com/view/519921/what-the-** > tesla-battery-fire-means-for-**electric-vehicles/<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/20131004/76124dcf/**attachment.htm<http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20131004/76124dcf/attachment.htm> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: > http://www.evdl.org/help/**index.html#usub<http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub> > http://lists.evdl.org/**listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org<http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org> > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/* > *group/NEDRA <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA>) > > -- Remember, it is not that the glass is half empty, in reality, the glass is merely twice the size that it needs to be! -TNT'82 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20131004/172728c9/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)
