• surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    You’re confusing cause & effect. The EV batteries catch fire, and then they get stuck in them due to system failures.

    From what I’ve read, part of the problem there is that Tesla cut corners by tying all of the systems together on a single bus. It causes unrelated systems to suffer a cascade of failures during incidents.

    EV batteries are still a problem: https://www.wired.com/story/ev-battery-fires-explained/

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      5 hours ago

      The cause is bad design. There are plenty of cars using batteries with the same or very similar chemistry that don’t catch fire.

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        5 hours ago

        Which car company invented an EV battery that doesn’t catch fire? Someone would’ve won a Nobel prize for that.

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          3 hours ago

          Every other one. Unless you mean when they’re damaged. All batteries can catch fire when damaged, that’s just the nature of concentrating energy.

          And I hope I don’t need to tell you what can happen to fuel in an accident.