Electic and Hybrid Technology

[tahdizzle]

With all these instances of Electic/Hybrid cars catching fire. (Teslas and now a 918 spyder) I am more hesitant to purchase a vehicle until the technology gets better.

These cars (Teslas and the 918 Spyder in the example) are not high volume vehicles (Teslas are pretty high volume, but they are still not Corolla status), so the amount of incidents (Especially the porsche) is unacceptably high.

Your thoughts?

[cdrazic93]

I wouldnt say unacceptably high. The tesla model S that caught fire ran over a steel rod and punched a hole in the battery pack. Find me a car that wont catch fire if its gas tank is hit with a steel rod driving at 40 mph? Idk what happened with that 918, but im making an assumption its an isolated icident, until otherwise investigated.

its still fine, only since there have been a larger amount of electric vehicles on the market some of them are subject to disaster. How many cars blew up and caught fire around their introduction into the market in mass quantities in the 1900's?

[tahdizzle]

Originally Posted by cdrazic93

I wouldnt say unacceptably high. The tesla model S that caught fire ran over a steel rod and punched a hole in the battery pack. Find me a car that wont catch fire if its gas tank is hit with a steel rod driving at 40 mph? Idk what happened with that 918, but im making an assumption its an isolated icident, until otherwise investigated.

its still fine, only since there have been a larger amount of electric vehicles on the market some of them are subject to disaster. How many cars blew up and caught fire around their introduction into the market in mass quantities in the 1900's?

There are more than one incident of Teslas catching fire.

But in the 918's defense. Like most porsche drivers, the owner was a douche (*Cough* Canadian *Cough* Ehem) and didn't know which side the gas tank was on. So instead of moving his car (guess he can't afford gas and was too low on gas to move it) he just stretched the gas hose over the car and filled it on the opposite side.

Assumptions say: Maybe gas somehow dripped on the hot exhaust manifold (I am not sure how hot exhaust manifolds get when you are in electric mode in a 918. Because he may have been full electric if he was going to fuel his porsche) and the car caught fire that way.