OT: Latest Tesla Goes BOOOOOM!!!!!

Gosh, that burned-out Tesla is even uglier than they usually look.

'Like I have written ad nauseum ... 50% of the population is at normal to below average intelligence. Mostly below average. A proven fact. This explains a lot."

-best comment, lol. Every guy on zerohedge believes he's the smartest guy in the room. This explains a lot

And even Zero Hedge notes that it is the owner (actually his lawyer) who claims that the car ignited "spontaneously".

If you think that you can claim on insurance if the car ignited "spontaneously" you are unlikely to mention how you managed to get it to start burning.

The charred remnants probably won't lend themselves to detailed forensic examination, but Tesla will be motivated to spell out what actually happened, even if the owner isn't.

Hey SL0WMAN, Tesla will blame the owner even though this is clearly a manufacturing defect. This will get worse as Teslas age.

But they don't seem to have got around to it yet. And one has to wonder why Flyguy thinks that "this is clearly a manufacturing defect" - all the evidence we have so far is one burnt-out Tesla.

When you see a burnt-out car, the usual thought is that somebody torched it to destroy evidence, but Flyguy doesn't have much imagination.

Or so Flyguy likes to thinks - and his thinking isn't up to much.

It's an experimental battery structure:

"The move is seen as bold in the industry since most electric car makers are trying to protect the battery pack while Tesla is planning to use it as an integral structural part of its electric vehicles."

I.e. No thick steel between battery cells and flying rocks.

more like the thick steel will do double duty as protection and container

Only sheet metal cover on the bottom of the pack.

"Our client was trapped & could have died", but he escaped and didn't. What do they mean he was "trapped"?

Why don't we hear about the many, many ICE gasoline fires? I recall one that resulted in hundreds of other cars catching fire in a parking structure in a Scandinavian country.

This is sure to make Larson cower in corner.

Silly boy. "New" and "experimental" are not the same thing. Every EV on the road would be "experimental" if they were the same. Every new design feature in an ICE as well for that matter.

Whatever you call it. This "new" feature is likely the point of failure in this case.

They should be putting those batteries in a fireproof box, like Boeing did with those problematic lithiums.

I actually like it, then again I just bought a Tesla model 3

Faster than a Porche 911, 4 times lower cost, runs smooth, very safe, self driving, cheap in service, cheap consumables (electric vs gasoline)

I actually like it, then again I just bought a Tesla model 3

Faster than a Porche 911, 4 times lower cost, runs smooth, very safe, self driving, cheap in service, cheap consumables (electric vs gasoline)

I actually like it, then again I just bought a Tesla model 3

Faster than a Porche 911, 4 times lower cost, runs smooth, very safe, self driving, cheap in service, cheap consumables (electric vs gasoline)

...and shaped charge.

I wonder what the energy density of a Tesla battery is on a pound for pound basis versus say something like TNT?

Well, if it's worth saying once it's worth saying 3 times I guess. ;-)

But seriously, I don't believe 'self-driving' and 'very safe' sit well together in a sentence:

Cursitor Doom lacks the wit to separate the various ways it costs you less money

What Cursitor Doom believes might be interesting to a student of psychopathology. For everybody else, he's just as gibbering idiot.

Largely because they aren't all that cheap. Of course an anonymous troll wouldn't want to draw attention to himself. The local cops might wonder where he got the money to pay for it, and Cursitor Doom is the kind of twit who gets sold a tax avoidance scheme that is actually tax evasion when anybody starts looking hard.