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Re:A Company That Tears Cars Apart to Find Out How They're B... by rhinoceraptor on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @09:59AM (#16316572)
AFAIK, Teslas just use huge arrays of 18650s. And it's well known that lithium cells can catch fire if they are crushed or pierced.
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Re:A Company That Tears Cars Apart to Find Out How They're B... by inferiorhuman on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @01:11AM (#16322566)
> AFAIK, Teslas just use huge arrays of 18650s. And it's well known that lithium cells can catch fire if they are crushed or pierced.

Ah. So it's like gasoline then?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISJdZD8POi8

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Re:A Company That Tears Cars Apart to Find Out How They're B... by rhinoceraptor on Thursday February 08, 2018 @02:39PM (#16334927)
Gasoline still requires an ignition source to catch fire. Lithium cells can spontaneously ignite when they experience physical damage.

I'm not saying electric cars are safer or more dangerous in the event of a crash (because I don't know the answer to that), just that batteries can and will catch fire.

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