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It Took 36,000 Gallons Of Water To Extinguish A Burning Tesla (jalopnik.com)

submitted 10 months ago by dragontamer@lemmy.world to c/realtesla@lemmy.world

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A new crash recently in Alabama, but a reminder to something that we all know. Burning Teslas are far more difficult to extinguish than any other car.

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[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How much oxygen are we talking here? I'm guessing not much, as they wouldn't be allowed to sell lifepo4 batteries as non combustible if they had any real chance of causing a self sustaining fire. So level with me so I don't have to trudge through a bunch of academic papers: How much oxygen do they mention?

[–] GetriFriedRisa@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

The stoichometry comes out with 2:1 moles of lfp to diatomic oxygen which is significant

The combustibility you're referring to is a legal definition not a scientific one