- cross-posted to:
- electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
- cross-posted to:
- electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
“We’ve crushed fascism before and we’ll crush it again” — Ken Turner, the most based 98 year old
You must log in or register to comment.
this is honestly the best thing i’ve seen all day. this dude is fucking ninety-eight years old, and he looks like he’s more cognizant than i am and could probably still kick my ass.
If only it had been a cybertrukkk.
Except that would have disintegrated on sight
I’d go anywhere that dude asked me.
I would have put money on that battery immediately catching fire.
I hope those engineers can get a job at a better EV company.
Tesla does not make their own batteries.
to be clear they where jointly designed with Panasonic and are literally manufactured in the same factory as the cars.
Vertical integration is Tesla’s whole thing.
It’s actually surprisingly hard to get a lithium cell to catch on fire from simply physical damage. You need to break it very specifically, and crushing them flat with a fucking tank will just shatter them before anything serious happens.
The reason that it happens so much due to damage is because there are a LOT off cells, and if someone damages the pack, there’s a point between total destruction and no damage where it’s just the right level of damage to cause thermal runaway reaction. The other reasons are manufacturing defects, and shitty charging, which are WAY more common than physical damage.
