1. Attachments are working again! Check out this thread for more details and to report any other bugs.

Another car caught on fire and completely burned.

Discussion in 'Tesla' started by el Crucero, Apr 27, 2019.

  1. el Crucero

    el Crucero Senior Member

    Joined:
    Jun 27, 2015
    1,628
    698
    0
    Location:
    Inland Empire
    Vehicle:
    2012 Prius Plug-in
    Model:
    Plug-in Advanced
    Was returning home today on HWY 60. Yep, a car beside the road totally engulfed in flames. Fire department hadn't even arrived yet. Just the one car involved. I hope the occupants are okay. Just one more example of how unsafe these cars are. I expect it will be on national news tomorrow. And I expect a scathing article by Business Insider next week. :rolleyes:

    Oh, the car was a late model Prius (gen 2/3). Time to short $Toyota stock. :cautious:
     
    #1 el Crucero, Apr 27, 2019
    bisco and Trollbait like this.
  2. Slider2732

    Slider2732 Member

    Joined:
    Nov 30, 2018
    64
    66
    1
    Location:
    Arkansas
    Vehicle:
    2014 Prius
    Model:
    Three
    If it was a Prius, the news will bang on about how unsafe lithium batteries are.
    Can guarantee that one o_O

    I don't know if a lot of people understand the differences in battery tech.
     
    #2 Slider2732, Apr 27, 2019
  3. bisco

    bisco cookie crumbler

    Joined:
    May 11, 2005
    107,688
    48,943
    0
    Location:
    boston
    Vehicle:
    2012 Prius Plug-in
    Model:
    Plug-in Base
    actually, a prius will get a lot more media hype than a gasser, but probably less than a tesla, since they're reporting tesla fires as far away as shanghai
     
    #3 bisco, Apr 27, 2019
  4. el Crucero

    el Crucero Senior Member

    Joined:
    Jun 27, 2015
    1,628
    698
    0
    Location:
    Inland Empire
    Vehicle:
    2012 Prius Plug-in
    Model:
    Plug-in Advanced
    Regardless of which Prius you own, it is still a gasser in one form or another.

    It appears that any Tesla that burns, anywhere in the world, regardless of the reason, is national news. How many Teslas have I personally seen burning on the side of the road in Californation (the land of Tesla) in the last 10 years? ZERO.

    How many gassers have I personally seen burning beside the road here in Californation in the last 10 years? Around 10 , most of them pure gassers, at least two of them Toyotas. How many of these fires have I seen reported on the national (even local) news? ZERO.

    There is a concerted effort to take Tesla down by people and industries with a lot of money to lose if Tesla succeeds (members of the SEC for example). I am confident that is not going to happen. I am convinced that Elon is bi-polar, the Captain Queeg of the auto industry, but he will succeed in spite of his disability. His ship is in stormy waters right now, but it is not going down.
     
    #4 el Crucero, Apr 27, 2019
  5. bisco

    bisco cookie crumbler

    Joined:
    May 11, 2005
    107,688
    48,943
    0
    Location:
    boston
    Vehicle:
    2012 Prius Plug-in
    Model:
    Plug-in Base
    south eastern conference?:confused:
     
    #5 bisco, Apr 27, 2019
  6. Trollbait

    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

    Joined:
    Feb 7, 2006
    21,711
    11,313
    0
    Location:
    eastern Pennsylvania
    Vehicle:
    Other Non-Hybrid
    Only recent Prii(2016) have Li-ion, and even then, not all of them.
     
    #6 Trollbait, Apr 27, 2019
  7. fuzzy1

    fuzzy1 Senior Member

    Joined:
    Feb 26, 2009
    17,105
    10,038
    90
    Location:
    Western Washington
    Vehicle:
    Other Hybrid
    Model:
    N/A
    Yup. Since a regular gasser burns about every 2 minutes in the U.S., it simply isn't news. Only something exotic, like an EV or Prius, is 'news'.

    From a link posted to another thread here long ago:

    "U.S. VEHICLE FIRE TRENDS AND PATTERNS
    ...
    Abstract

    In 2003-2007, U.S. fire departments responded to an average of 287,000 vehicle fires per year. These fires caused an average of 480 civilian deaths, 1,525 civilian injuries, and $1.3 billion in direct property damage annually. Cars, trucks and other highway vehicles (meaning a vehicle designed for highway use, not that the fire occurred on a highway) accounted for 93% of the vehicle fires and 92% of the vehicle fire deaths."

    http://tkolb.net/FireReports/US_VehFirTrePat2003-2007.pdf
     
    #7 fuzzy1, Apr 28, 2019
  8. el Crucero

    el Crucero Senior Member

    Joined:
    Jun 27, 2015
    1,628
    698
    0
    Location:
    Inland Empire
    Vehicle:
    2012 Prius Plug-in
    Model:
    Plug-in Advanced
    [​IMG]
     
    #8 el Crucero, Apr 28, 2019
    fuzzy1 likes this.
  9. orenji

    orenji Senior Member

    Joined:
    Aug 17, 2013
    5,884
    3,486
    0
    Vehicle:
    2010 Prius
    Model:
    Three
    What about those darn House fires, they never makes the news! Thanks for pointing out how unsafe cars can be!
     
    #9 orenji, Apr 28, 2019
  10. orenji

    orenji Senior Member

    Joined:
    Aug 17, 2013
    5,884
    3,486
    0
    Vehicle:
    2010 Prius
    Model:
    Three
    Battery-powered cars remain a tiny minority in the U.S., with sales of EVs accounting for just 1.2 percent of total new vehicles delivered in the U.S. last year, according to data from Edmunds. So of course we will not see as many EV fires as gas powered cars. But in my 30 plus years of driving hundreds of thousands of miles, I have seen 2 car fire, and that was within the last few years. Of course these were older cars, so fuel lines will age. Lack of maintenance is not a particular cars fault.
     
    #10 orenji, Apr 28, 2019
(You must log in or sign up to post here.)