• yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    I’m pretty sure you still need an accelerant, which would be the more expensive part.

    • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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      Or you just pour water on the “wrong spot” (where tesla was too cheap to protect the batteries) and it burns down itself.

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          2 hours ago

          Afaik, moisture getting into batteries/accumulators is the main cause for them to bloat and to bad, which is a problem with teslas, as can be seen by problems arising from just being in rainy weather often (UK)

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            You’re not wrong but that takes a lot of time. Its an oxidation reaction happening.the fastest way to start a volatile reaction in a sealed lithium battery cell is to pierce the exterior container