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Tag: Battery fires

Hoverboard FAIL – driven into backyard pool, doesn’t explode, no fire, doesn’t electrocute girl who dives in to retrieve it

January 10, 2016 May 15, 2017

What with the recent Hoverboard fires, you’d expect that letting one fall into a backyard pool would cause a fire, or electrocute anyone foolish enough to dive in to retrieve the thing.  But then you’d be wrong.

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Model S catches fire in Norway at Supercharger, charging system seemingly at fault

January 1, 2016 January 1, 2016

Tesla Motors has had a spot of bad news – another Model S has caught on fire, this time not from road debris but while plugged into a Supercharger station.  This happened in Norway, according to a news post on fvn.co, for a brand new car.  The owner had plugged in,…

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Hoverboards catching fire runs risk of destroying their potential contribution to transit problems

December 16, 2015 December 16, 2015

Hoverboards have been catching fire, airlines have banned them from luggage, some retailers have stopped selling them, and the fires are starting to show up in the press.  These vehicles, “Self-balancing two-wheeled scooter” is a better phrase than Hoverboard, are an interesting new way to get around.  They’re pure electric,…

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NHTSA Final Reports on Chevy Volt fire in 2011

November 13, 2015 November 13, 2015

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Nissan Leaf catches fire in North Texas – no clear information available

September 3, 2015 September 3, 2015

Until now the only electric car to have caught on fire in the wild was the Tesla Model S.  In that case road debris punctured the battery pack, short circuiting some cells, causing a fire, in two situations.  A couple other Model S’s were in extreme wrecks, such as torn…

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Do Nissan Leaf battery cells blow up from puncture, fire? Nope

August 31, 2015 August 31, 2015

Just how safe are electric cars?  Fire fears were hyped up during the 2012 election season based on a bogus misconstrual of a fire following a Chevy Volt crash test.  A few Tesla Model S’s did catch fire however, following a battery pack puncture.   The handful of electric car fires is small…

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Batteries can catch fire in the most unusual ways – iPhone 6 bent in half, catches fire in mans pants

October 21, 2014 March 30, 2015

In the electric car field we’re worried about public perception of electric car safety.  Despite the fact there’s over 200,000 gasoline car fires per year in the U.S. alone, causing hundreds of fatalities and property damage costs, there is inordinately outsized attention paid to the very small number of electric…

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Stolen Tesla Model S in Hollywood, crashes after 100+ miles/hr police chase, splits in half, burns

July 4, 2014 March 31, 2015

Another Tesla Model S – on fire Source: NBC Los Angeles Remember last year when we had three Tesla Model S car fires within a month?  Two were from road debris skewering the battery pack, with the short circuit causing a car fire, while the third was a high speed…

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A third Tesla Model S car fire means Tesla has to proactively fix the problem

November 7, 2013 March 31, 2015

Yesterday another Tesla Model S fire occurred on the heels of Tesla Motors’ Q3 2013 financial results which had disappointed Wall Street who sent the stock down 14% on Wednesday.  News of the Model S fire came too late in the day to affect the stock on Wednesday, so it’s…

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Another Tesla Model S burns following a serious crash – nobody hurt – TSLA stock price falls

October 28, 2013 April 6, 2015

Another Tesla Model S has crashed and burned.  Tesla’s stock price fell today when the news broke, closing at $162/share when in September (before the first fire) the price had reached almost to $195/share.  The incident occurred in the Northern Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) at 3 AM, to a car driven…

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NTSB investigation of Boeing 787 Dreamliner fire shows cell failure and thermal runaway

February 8, 2013 April 6, 2015

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) believes that a single cell failure, a short circuit in one cell, on board the Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplanes is the culprit in the battery pack fires that have grounded those airplanes.  The problem began occurring about a month ago, several planes had fires…

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Fisker Karma’s caught fire and burned after being flooded by Hurricane Sandy

October 31, 2012 January 23, 2016
Fisker Karma

The Fisker Karma has had a fiery year with a couple car fires, and now in the wake of Hurricane Sandy 16 Karma’s in a holding area in Port Newark NJ caught fire and burned. Hurricane Sandy has been wreaking havoc in New Jersey, New York and elsewhere, as the…

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GM’s fact-telling and image rehabilitation in latest Chevy Volt ad

February 16, 2012 April 13, 2015

GM’s latest video on YouTube attempts to reassure the public about Chevy Volt battery pack safety, in wake of the recent controversy over the battery pack fire during crash testing last year. General Motors has its work cut out for it, to rehabilitate their image following the hyped up controversy…

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Bob Lutz defends the Volt, calls on Republicans to be truthful

February 1, 2012 April 13, 2015

GM’s former Chairman, Bob Lutz, blasts the right wing media for lying about the Chevy Volt. Yesterday Forbes published an op-ed piece from GM’s former CEO, Bob Lutz defending the Chevy Volt and calling on certain right wing media outlets to focus on telling the truth, rather than concocting lies. One wonders after reading…

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GM’s Akerson says Chevy Volt not designed to be a political punching bag

January 26, 2012 April 12, 2015

A politically charged Congressional Hearing this morning questioned the NHTSA’s integrity following the Chevy Volt crash test fire last summer, with Administrator Strickland bearing the brunt of Rep. Jordan’s angry questioning. In a politically charged Congressional Hearing held today, the safety of the Chevy Volt, and the integrity of the…

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