Tesla Cybertruck prevented rescue of 3 victims in crash, authorities say – NBC Bay Area
www.nbcbayarea.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/620960

This accident could be a scene in a horror movie.

I’m not a Tesla fan by any measure, but I edited the headline for this post. The original headline made it seem like a specific feature of the Cybertruck trapped the victims, but then the article explains it was really that the battery was burning so fiercely that the police just couldn’t free them. The deadly feature of the accident was the lithium battery, which is common to many makes and manufacturers of EVs.

  • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    22 hours ago

    I think once sodium batteries become commonplace they should issue a recall to all lithium EVs that cause death

    • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      21 hours ago

      Solid state lifepo are also much safer. Liquid electrolytes are a big part of the problem when batteries are damaged.

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        13 minutes ago

        There was even that one announcement of some sort of internal breaker to prevent thermal runaway even in a damaged standard lithium ion battery.

      • Beastimus@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        Yeah, we definitely need both of those to become viable alternatives. But I’m even more excited about the possibility of a solid state battery E-Bike tbh.