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The Tesla protests are getting bigger — and rowdier
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If someone figures out a quick and efficient way to light their batteries on fire, they might be able to bankrupt Tesla in short order. Landlords would kick their showrooms for fear of building fires. People would stop buying due to fear of .. fire. If on top of that a few Tesla parking lots with new cars became unfit for sale ...
They kinda do that on their own already
https://youtu.be/ffsNCeSMC2k?t=174
Pneumatic car jack with a spike on the end of it. Slide it under the middle of the car where the batteries are. Apply compressed air from a high pressure nitrogen tank. Release pressure, move on to next car.
arrows/bolts made primarily out of metal? now that i think about it, americans have a lot of handy tools that are quite a bit better at delivering metal, but loud
I thought lithium battery fires were caused by thermal runaway. Does piercing a lithium ion battery cause thermal runaway?
Yeah, shorting the cells does that
Okay that makes sense. I wondered why the person I replied to specified metal.
I guess I had a bad recollection of Tesla adding plating to the bottom of their vehicle because (to my bad recollection), general non-Metallic road debris was piercing the battery compartment
It'd be a pity if someone were to SSH into the car's admin interface and screw up the battery controller's thermal management software. They're all always online.
Hopefully this is separated from typical software and can't be just changed remotely
Usually the hardware has some low level safety guards, and aren't just done in high level software
You think Tesla is being responsible
This is also a car that has the drive selection moved to the iPad on the dash.
Ouch
I still don't get how people like to but have physical buttons in a car.
I do have most things at physical buttons and even the little stuff I need to do at the main screen is getting on my nerves, because I need to hit the correct space on the screen while driving (like confirming something or cancelling a route or something)
And even that feels like a major safety issue
Can't understand how people drive a Tesla, where even the speed of their windshield wipers are to be found somewhere in a sub menu
I'm not suggesting anything but RC cars with small propane torches mounted facing upwards might be a danger to Teslas. It might take one or two minutes though.
Also, generally, in parking lots only one EV per row has to catch fire.
That's an interesting idea. Light it up and then drive it under? Can be done from a distance. The flame isn't too visible so won't be too noticeable while the RC is moving. Once under the car, it would basically be invisible until the battery starts smoking. Yeah from entirely hypothetical engineering standpoint, this could cause an accident.
You don't have to light it first. Just get an rc car with an extra button (like headlights) and solder some leads to create a spark instead
Molotov CockTesla.