这是Tesla今年在全球第四例的车辆火灾事故。
这次发生在美国印第安纳波利斯
根据目击者表示，这辆Model S以高速行驶经过交叉路口后失控撞上路旁的树
整辆车弹起来后有很多零件飞在空中
据调查报告，驾驶是位女性，驾驶与男性乘客似乎在撞击当下就已经死亡
这是路人拍下的起火影片：
https://www.facebook.com/mark.bates.3998/videos/10207453052549259/
当消防车赶到时各式零件跟碎片散落了至少100码
今年的第一起Tesla车辆起火原因是在奥地利高速公路上撞击后导致起火
但车上两人完全无伤
第二起事故是在法国试驾过程中起火
当时电脑先警告车辆即将发生问题要驾驶将车辆停在路边
业务与乘客都下车后过了一两分钟后才起火
事故原因事后调查是因为人为的电气设备连接不当导致短路
第三起事故是在挪威，车子在超级充电站充电过程中起火
事故调查发现起火原因并不是因为充电造成，而是车内的配电箱短路造成
Tesla已经透过OTA更新软件去预防这类状况发生
第四起事故就是这则超速撞击导致的起火事故(让我想到保罗沃克也是撞树火烧车...)
在撞击当下就死亡可以想见车速有多快
Tesla对于如何处理电动车火灾的建议是：
如果电池破裂或扭曲，或是处于高热之中，要用大量的水冷却电池，不要只用少量的水
扑灭后用热成像像机监控电池至少一个小时
Tesla也提供了如何处理事故的大量文件与培训资料在他的网站里：
https://www.tesla.com/firstresponders?redirect=no
另外，车辆火灾事故在美国高速公路上一年有17万4000例
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Cars catch on fire after severe high-speed impacts. That's nothing
new to Tesla or electric vehicles, but there's also no doubt that
battery fires are different from gas-powered car fires. The latest
example comes from a tragic fatal accident in Indianapolis early this
morning.
The driver and passenger of a Tesla Model S died after hitting a tree
at a reportedly high-speed. The car caught on fire following the
accident and was difficult to extinguish according to local
firefighters.
Local news interviewed a witness that said the vehicle was “speeding
when it lost control at the intersection, crashed into a tree, and
caught on fire”:
“It hit that tree and it bounced around, and all of a sudden it just
exploded, and I had to accelerate my vehicle because all the car
parts went up in the air and I had to accelerate just to get away
from it”
The driver, a woman, was pronounced dead at the scene, the passenger
in the car, a man, died at the hospital. Some reports state that it
took about 15 minutes for the rescue team to free the passenger from
the car.
Here's a video of the aftermath:
Spokeswoman for the Indianapolis Fire Department, Rita Reith,
commented on the fire:
“The car, kind of, for lack of a better term, disintegrated. The
debris field is at least 100 yards long. The batteries and the pieces
and parts from the Tesla - all which were on fire when firefighters
initially arrived.”
It's the fourth Tesla to catch on fire this year. Another instance
happened after an impact on the highway, while the two others
happened without any impact. One instance was during a test drive,
Tesla said that it was due to ‘electrical connection improperly
tightened' by a human instead of robots, and the other fire without
an impact happened while the car was charging at a Supercharger.
Tesla recommends using “large amounts of water” to extinguish a
battery fire in its vehicles and to use a thermal imaging camera to
monitor the battery for at least one hour after it is found to be
completely cooled:
“If the high voltage battery catches fire, is exposed to high heat,
or is bent, twisted, cracked, or breached in any way, use large
amounts of water to cool the battery. DO NOT extinguish with a small
amount of water. Always establish or request an additional water
supply.”
Tesla offers extensive documentation and training for first
responders on its website.
It's worth noting that 174,000 car fires were reported on US
highways last year. Of course, the vast majority had nothing to do
with electric vehicles or Tesla