Tesla Hate Thread - oh and come seethe about EVs in general with me

[Bonesjones]

You're assuming your gas station has electricity, which they won't, since once the power company realized they started yet another giant forest fire they turned off all the power in the area.

Wait till you find out you can move liquids with a bucket and rope, or a just a tube. Can you fit electricity in a bucket?

During Helene, we had places just use a generator and pump and sold it that way.

 

[Thiletonomics]

A Wuling Binguo EV catches fire while parked. / Archive



Since the fire started at the front driver side of the car, the automakers can't spin the excuse of "flammable liquids" or "a power bank" being the culprit, but they'll find some other way to try to spin it.

 

[Obscene Majesty]

I hate how much that thing looks like a PT Cruiser, damn.

I could see them maybe trying to throw the brake manufacturer under the bus for it; anything but taking accountability for the shit they produce.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Chinese EVs look okay from afar, but look like plastic toys from up close, everything is just... Fisher-pricey?
At least the lower quality stuff like BYD, I've had the displeasure of being in a few and the illusion vanishes so fast as soon as it starts moving and/or you touch any plastics.
I'd bet the plastic on the doors and dash are going to be cracking/disintegrating within 5 years.

I bet you have to leave it outside your garage for three weeks before you can drive it so all that Temu plastic can off-gas

 

[DavidS877]

I bet you have to leave it outside your garage for three weeks before you can drive it so all that Temu plastic can off-gas

Then you still want to park it outside so it can catch fire safely.

 

[Thiletonomics]

During a BYD flash-charging livestream, the battery temperature reached 76°C. / Archive



That sure wouldn't make the cabin comfortable to be in, if you decide to stay in your car while flash charging.

 

[Burnt Effigy]

During a BYD flash-charging livestream, the battery temperature reached 76°C. / Archive

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That sure wouldn't make the cabin comfortable to be in, if you decide to stay in your car while flash charging.

Reference figures for those not familiar with batteries:
- This is surface temperature of the pack. The cells inside of the pack are likely much hotter. The lithium inside of the cells, even hotter.
- In a laboratory, Lithium enters thermal runaway (that fun thing you may know as EV batteries becoming flamethrowers and requiring a pool of water to stop) between. 150 to 250 degrees celcius.
- When cells in a pack degrade, it's not always even. When one cell is more degraded than others, it becomes hotter.
- Calendar degradation is just as bad, if not worse, than fast charging degradation.
- The only solutions to this problem is either to degrade charging speed significantly (so this megawatt charge is not that useful after a little while) or blow the pack.

Enjoy your fast charging! Because it's not here to stay.