A Tesla fire on I-65 in Alabama tested the capabilities of local emergency responders.

A new crash recently in Alabama, but a reminder to something that we all know. Burning Teslas are far more difficult to extinguish than any other car.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•6 months ago

    There’s plenty of proof in academic literature. FePO4 is quite stable because of the quirks in iron’s valance up to about 500C. But the combination of of lithium skews the valance effects at high temperatures to start losing oxygen at 250C.

    Please review the following literature for more information:

    1. C. Delacourt, P. Poizot, J-.M. Tarascon, and C. Masquelier, Nat Mater., 4, 254 (2005).
    2. J.L Dodd, R. Yazami, and B. Fultz, Electrochem. Solid-State Let., 9, A151 (2006).
    3. G. Chen, .XSong, and T. J. Richardson, J. Electrochem. Soc,. 154, 4627 (2007).
    • NomecksEnglish
      -2•6 months ago

      How much oxygen are we talking here? I’m guessing not much, as they wouldn’t be allowed to sell lifepo4 batteries as non combustible if they had any real chance of causing a self sustaining fire. So level with me so I don’t have to trudge through a bunch of academic papers: How much oxygen do they mention?

      • @[email protected]English
        4•6 months ago

        The stoichometry comes out with 2:1 moles of lfp to diatomic oxygen which is significant

        The combustibility you’re referring to is a legal definition not a scientific one