The acute flammability of EV batteries was lately confirmed in Florida after a Tesla Mannequin X slid down a ship ramp and was left to burn by firefighters
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Launching your watercraft is at all times annoying. There’s the problem of backing up a trailer, the jeopardy of doing that with an costly piece of kit behind you, and the added spice of reversing in direction of a big physique of water. Nonetheless, a pair in Hollywood, Florida, discovered that issues can get a complete lot extra annoying than that when their Tesla Mannequin X slid into the water.
The incident occurred final month, when the driving force of the Mannequin X was making an attempt to launch a jet ski into the water. In response to a video posted to YouTube, the jet ski did get away, however issues began going haywire within the EV.
An unseen particular person within the video claims that the lady behind the wheel turned trapped contained in the Mannequin X after warning messages allegedly began displaying on the dashboard. The lady was then helped out of the automobile by her husband, who was on the jet ski.
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It’s unclear at what level the Mannequin X began sliding into the water, however the Hollywood Skilled Firefighters report that the automobile “misplaced traction and slid into the inter-coastal.” It says that the salt water then reacted with the electronics, inflicting them to brief, and sparking a fireplace that burned for an “prolonged time frame.”
“The fireplace was allowed to burn underwater till it extinguished itself,” Hollywood Skilled Firefighters wrote on Fb. “And even then, it needed to be loaded fastidiously onto a particular provider, and adopted by the Fireplace Engine to the impound lot, the place they’ll maintain the automobile remoted for a couple of days within the very actual chance of re-ignition.”
Fortuitously, regardless of the apparent risks of each a fireplace and a automobile changing into submerged underwater (two risks you wouldn’t usually count on to face on the identical time), everybody acquired away from the Mannequin X in time, and nobody was injured.
Though this might have occurred to any EV, it’s value remembering what destiny befell this Tesla the following time Elon Musk says that his autos can be utilized as a ship.