Teslas are bursting into flames in Florida after being flooded during Hurricane Idalia | Saltwater and lithium-ion batteries are a bad combination

Classic click baiting. If it was about laptops the title would contain ‘Apple’. Popular brands work well in titles.

This warning applies not only to electric sedans, trucks, and SUVs but also to smaller and lighter electric vehicles like golf carts, scooters, and bicycles that also have rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.

It's in the article.

Blame the author https://www.techspot.com/community/staff/dragonslayer101.498521/

Yeah definitely, I remember sailing in the ocean when I was in Sea Scouts and one of our leaders had his battery let out the magic smoke on his phone, no lithium fire luckily

Idalia brined them, not the scammers. Just to be clear.

I remember that happened after a huge Mississippi flood in the 90s. Definitely be careful

Tesla doesn’t advertise so any clickbait involving them is fair game.

You know who does adverise? Other competing manufacturers and boy do they have a hard-on for advertising on news sites and broadcasts. Coincidence?

Maybe all brands, but can't be sure.

Tesla is "known" or at lest publicised in multiple places that they have pretty bad quality control, and I guess also bad design on some parts.

So bad protection on the battery at tesla design? Maybe? Is there a "review" on car internals somewhere? I have no idea.

Could another vehicle survive the same thing? Who knows, maybe? Maybe not?

Tho there are some who said they went with a tesla directly into water slashing over the hood. So maybe some are waterproof?

Only the cybertruck I think, but in the end neither will be able to so it doesnt matter. I work with tesla and will never even consider buying one, even apart from all the stuff muskrat is doing.

Not to sea fishes.

I assumed he was going to blame the Jews.

I’d be surprised if there weren’t some kind of guidelines already but once we see EVs on the road 25-30 years old held together with duct tape things might get interesting.

They are likely IP rated in some form or fashion, that means they are rated for protection for a period of time at a certain depth. Deeper water or longer time in water means you still get water past the seals.

It could also be a control fault or short on the electrical side allowing the other components to catch fire or overloading the batteries causing them to overheat and catch fire.

I doubt their designs are hurricane + flood proofed.

Also the high voltage disconnect/fuse is under the seats. Flood that and you've got a problem.

If manufactured properly, they should be.

Water ingress can happen where cables plug into places - literally like a straw that draws water towards the battery pack. Again, if properly sealed, this should not be an issue.

But I can't imagine any modern vehicle surviving being flooded by saltwater. If not the battery then any other electrical component, or even the motor, would corrode over the coming days, weeks, months.

If previous incidents are anything to go by, most batteries that actually react that way are physically damaged during the Hurricane part. Usually the teslas are fine even completely submerged.

https://youtu.be/SUNw8-rHHV4

You're not going to have frozen salt water on the underside of a car. That's kind of what the salt is for. You will get salt water eating at the metal.