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.

  • Nomecks@lemmy.ca
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    10 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?

    • GetriFriedRisa@startrek.website
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      10 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