Green Inferno: Tesla Battery Catches Fire
in California Causing Shelter-In-Place
Advisory Due to Toxic Smoke
Breitbart Tech,
by
Lucas Nolan
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
9/22/2022 3:42:56 AM
A Tesla Megapack battery caught fire at PG&E’s Elkhorn Battery Storage facility in Monterey County, California. A shelter-in-place advisory was in place for 12 hours due to fears of toxic smoke from the fire caused by Elon Musk’s battery system, with county officials announcing that even though the fire was “fully controlled” by 7:00 p.m. PT, “smoke may still occur in the area for several days.”
KSBW Action News 8 reports that a Tesla Megapack battery caught fire at the local utility company PG&E’s Elkhorn Battery Storage facility in Monterey County, California. The fire reported started at around 1:30 a.m. on September 20,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 9/22/2022 4:29:22 AM (No. 1284378)
Toxic smoke. That doesn't sound very "green".
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
downnout 9/22/2022 4:52:22 AM (No. 1284389)
And our betters want us to buy electric vehicles. Sure. We’ll get right on that.
57 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
anniebc 9/22/2022 5:00:03 AM (No. 1284393)
How much does it cost to ensure a battery operated car? A neighbor down the street owns a Tesla, and my son wants one. My neighbor once bragged about not having to go to the gas station for two whole weeks. While he was charging his car.
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Ah. The old rolling crematorium strikes again.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Californian 9/22/2022 6:22:40 AM (No. 1284423)
3, insurance rates are the same as anything else. My model 3 costs a little less to insure than my 2 seater vroom vroom fun car but is a bit cheaper and a year newer.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 9/22/2022 6:25:02 AM (No. 1284425)
If You live in California I believe I would “shelter in place” until I could arrange transportation out of that crap hole.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 9/22/2022 6:40:00 AM (No. 1284432)
Well at least we know that when the battery runs down when you are stuck in freezing weather somewhere you can stay warm for a while.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
NancyD 9/22/2022 6:48:45 AM (No. 1284440)
I read an article that the cost to replace batteries when they wear out, is $26,000.00
I imagine if they caught fire, you need to replace the entire car. I wonder if insurance covers that?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rinktum 9/22/2022 7:33:37 AM (No. 1284479)
How much more evidence do we need to see in order to know that we do not have the technology needed for these vehicles. Clearly, there are huge issues with the batteries. The fires? The cost? Plus, I read an article about the dangerous waste that is produced that is a real concern, not to mention the amount of mining of elements that are needed to make these batteries. This is just insanity. Why can’t these people understand the concept of common sense? We are going to ditch an energy source that is plentiful for a dangerous, costly source that will be a blight on the planet. These people have lost sight of reality and are zealots to their green religion. Their sanctimony is especially disgusting because they refuse to look at the reality of what these vehicles will actually do to the environment. We need a national conversation about this, but that is the last thing the left wants.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/22/2022 7:42:14 AM (No. 1284488)
Clean energy is the Goebbels term for this technology. The scam will die out soon, it's only a matter of time. We can realistically live in a world where EVs and ICE vehicles coexist, there is no need to push an unproven, unsafe and unreliable technology over a proven method but leftists must always learn the hard way.
23 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/22/2022 8:12:39 AM (No. 1284525)
Karma, Newsom, Karma!
17 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
privateer 9/22/2022 8:15:57 AM (No. 1284527)
Regarding every policy of the Evil Left, our 'Betters' are like Great White sharks: when they target a goal (with personal enrichment, typically) their eyes roll back and they become a powerful, rushing engine of death. Nothing else exists except appetite and satiation.
18 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/22/2022 8:32:14 AM (No. 1284542)
Someday our government will enact a shelter in place order and never lift it.
16 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 9/22/2022 8:49:38 AM (No. 1284579)
More and more common. EV's are incendiary devices. Never park one in an attached garage.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/22/2022 9:07:54 AM (No. 1284622)
If an EV Battery caught fire and burned up Congress would the car be charged with Insurrection?
21 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
bpl40 9/22/2022 9:21:48 AM (No. 1284657)
Storing this much power using battery technology is a zany idea. Who thinks of these things? A standard thermal power station driven by natural gas can easily provide whatever this contraption is supposed to do - efficiently and safely. But these Green nuts will not admit it until another Chernobyl bites them in the a**.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 9/22/2022 9:27:31 AM (No. 1284665)
I wonder if Gov Brylcream has thought of all of this?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 9/22/2022 9:36:35 AM (No. 1284687)
Shelter in place except the governor, Brylcream Newsome, he can still go to the French Laundry not wearing a mask. Couldn't have happened in a better place, the electric car state at that.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Kafka2 9/22/2022 9:44:48 AM (No. 1284701)
While this is not the first time one of these EV batteries has caught fire, the 1:30 am time makes me suspect arson. If even a lead-acid battery is dead shorted, it can explode and cause a fire.
6 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
mlsstl 9/22/2022 9:47:11 AM (No. 1284705)
To address a couple of issues that have been brought up...
- Gas and diesel cars catch on fire too. In 2020, there were 173,000 vehicle fires reported. Broken out by type, hybrids had the highest incident rate of 3,475 fires per 100,000 vehicles. Internal combustion engine cars were next with 1,530 fires per 100K, and full EVs had the lowest incident rate of 25 per 100K.
- For my VW ID4, a full EV, my charging costs at home are about one-fourth of what I was spending on gas for my prior Tiguan, and that was before gas prices shot up. The cost for others will depend on your local electric rates, which can vary quite a bit around the country.
- And yes, auto insurance will pay for the damage to your car caused by a fire. That assumes you have comprehensive coverage on your insurance policy. The exception would be if the fire was caused by a collision, then you'd need that coverage, too. This is true whether you have a hybrid, EV or internal combustion engine car.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bpl40 9/22/2022 10:04:06 AM (No. 1284737)
#20, sorry for the second post. But wait till your battery conks out and you have to shell out $17,000. The $4000 they charge for a new transmission will look like a day at the beach.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Axeman 9/22/2022 10:30:15 AM (No. 1284770)
Such a badly written headline and article. The batteries are PG&E's, not Musk's. There are a lot of them there, arranged in containers, to store excess power from solar production during the day. They feed back into the grid for the evening surge. Part of the gov't boondoggle.
This has nothing to do with EVs.
Lithium batteries really are a fire danger and we use them in everything. There are usually a lot of safety devices to protect them. Some engineer will be looking into this fire and improving the design shortly.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bobmadison 9/22/2022 11:26:45 AM (No. 1284830)
The biggest scam and boondoggle in the history of the USA.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
NotaBene 9/22/2022 12:00:39 PM (No. 1284872)
Lithium batteries wear out with use. Just like an iPhone or iPad.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
CivilServant 9/22/2022 12:05:56 PM (No. 1284876)
#5, NOW. When the Industry prices in these far too common events, it won’t stay that way.
Unless of course the rest of us insured are picking up your slack, ala healthcare.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
CivilServant 9/22/2022 12:09:06 PM (No. 1284879)
#20, those IC fires happened in an ACCIDENT. The EV fires happened……anywhere.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mc squared 9/22/2022 12:31:12 PM (No. 1284896)
#8: When the battery is gone there's no value in the car . Gas cars can run 20 years or more and still be worth something as cheap transportation.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
broken01 9/22/2022 12:33:49 PM (No. 1284898)
Not only did this happen in the state run by The Breck Girl 2.0 which is bad enough. They're suffering from black, brown and green outs. Yes this makes me want to go out and buy a 40,000 EV. Not!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Omen55 9/22/2022 1:45:32 PM (No. 1284956)
These EV should come with auto fire suppression.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
TCloud 9/22/2022 6:46:23 PM (No. 1285151)
Who wants to drive my IED?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
bobn.t 9/22/2022 6:56:11 PM (No. 1285158)
You're in your $65,000 EV Tesla, an electrical problem happens, car will not unlock, you're trapped inside, a fire then starts.
Good bye world.
Thank you FJB and Newsom.
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