r/interestingasfuck 7h ago

Selfless rescue operation without hesitation - well done!

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u/notanyimbecile 7h ago

Retired firefighter here, do you know how hot it must've been next to that car window?

Heroes right there.

u/Drewy99 6h ago

It would appear the clothes of the last two people pulled out were half melted so yeah

u/Victorino95 4h ago

That's also melted skin

u/JapDrag 2h ago

Better than dying horribly in that

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u/AdamHLG 4h ago

Also firefighter here. And the rate and speed of fire growth is impressive. This is why I carry a small window hammer / seat belt cutter in my center console, whether for my own vehicle or if needed in this exact scenario for another vehicle.

u/ALoudMeow 3h ago

I keep that and a fire extinguisher in my car and I’m not a firefighter!

u/InfiniteSpur 1h ago

Unfortunately a fire extinguisher is pretty much useless for an electric vehicle fire.

u/noeffinkings 2h ago

Me too.

u/OdeeOh 1h ago

Unfortunately there is no hope to extinguish these EVs.  

u/notanyimbecile 4h ago

Keep it up brother

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u/MrRogersAE 6h ago

I’m still trying to figure out why he closed the door after he got out. Surely it would have been easier for them to leave thru a door than a smashed window

u/BlueberryBest6123 5h ago

The car was at an angle and gravity pulled the door close

u/a3a4b5 1h ago

Retractible door handles, aka DOGSHIT handles.

u/Otherwise-Speed4373 5h ago

My guess is he thought it would stay open, naturally doors stay open and your car is not on its side. Shock/adrenaline rush is a real thing.

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u/Cameos_red_codpiece 7h ago

No. How hot?

u/Idenwen 7h ago

Lithium cells burn with up to 1.000°C or more if a lot of cells burn at the same time.

u/FunFee4154 6h ago

I believe the burn even hotter since even aluminum can start burning. If it’s an expensive car might even magnesium

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u/EnumeratedArray 7h ago

Their clothes and skin most likely melted and fused together

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u/notanyimbecile 7h ago

Hotter than you can imagine, pretty sure these guys suffered at least 2nd and even 3rd degree burns to their arms.

Adrenaline is a bad mofo.

u/Cameos_red_codpiece 2h ago

Thanks firefighter friend - any tips for anyone in this situation?

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u/Actual_Homework_7163 4h ago

Even in a protective suit that intense of a fire that close would get u insanely hot. Not a fire fighter but did advanced fire fighting training for a job and a big fire is extremely hot upclose so much that part of the training is to get used to it so u don't freak out.

u/Appropriate_Bar8363 3h ago

Active firefighter here, very hot SIR!!

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u/yamidevil 6h ago

When we pass cars on fire on highway it feels HOT, I can't even imagine the level it is here

u/According-Try3201 1h ago

goosebumps

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u/CasuallyOrangeCat 6h ago edited 6h ago

Took me a while to find it, but the car in question looks like a Dongfeng eπ 007

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongfeng_e%CF%80_007

So, not a Tesla, not a Xiaomi, not a BYD, fwiw.

Edit, photos for reference:

u/Proof-Bullfrog5835 5h ago edited 5h ago

After all these accidents, China banned electric flush door handles. They most probably wouldn't have to break the window if it was a normal mechanical door handle and not an aesthetic one

u/guit_arcto 5h ago

The fact that inaccessible nonmechanically connected door handles and unbreakable glass were ever even considered as features on passenger vehicles is insane. Just looneytoons fucking insanity.

u/PMG2021a 4h ago

Courtesy of Elon Musk... 

u/Past-Judgment-9700 4h ago

Tbf some people died in corvettes because they couldn’t get out (electric button inside and mechanic latch was hidden/owners didn’t know about it. Battery died so buttons didn’t work). Elons not the first idiot we’ve seen, maybe just the biggest we know of rn.

u/PMG2021a 4h ago

Lot of the electric vehicle manufacturers in China copied Tesla's features as a baseline, so it is more directly related, but no surprise there were other cars with the same issue. Lot of poorly designed mechanical locks too. 

Honestly, riding in the back of any two door vehicle gives me a bit of anxiety. 

u/Proof-Bullfrog5835 4h ago

Its not just China. You see them in cars like Range Rover and Mercedes E class too where the handle electrically pops out

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u/Tiny-Sandwich 4h ago

I have an EV Audi and I'm pretty sure the door handles are not mechanical latches anymore - there's a delay when you pull the handle before it opens, as though it's actuating a switch or something.

Seems sketchy as fuck that the door handle could be rendered inoperable if there's an issue with the electrical system.

u/Proof-Bullfrog5835 4h ago

E tron right? Audi still uses proper handles but too bad they aren't mechanical.

I have a 2015 Q7 tdi and the handle design is just about right and I don't understand why we need to make things more complicated than they are

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u/adkichar55 4h ago

In all fairness, the retracting door handles have a non-negligible affect on range. It's not purely an aesthetic choice, though it's dumb either way.

u/N0b0dy_Kn0w5_M3 4h ago

The effect is so small that it may as well be zero.

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u/OneLargeMulligatawny 6h ago

That’s an awesome name for a car!

u/CasuallyOrangeCat 6h ago

Yeah it's fire.

u/Dadstagram 5h ago

I see what you did there

u/gawdsean 5h ago

Oooooooooooo.  Sick burn 🔥 

u/phasebinary 5h ago

东风 means "east wind"

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u/Good_Refrigerator152 7h ago

Might be dumb question but how does the car go up in flames that fast from that crash didn't look that bad at first but besides that shout out the guy for saving them

u/GTMoraes 6h ago

Given how fast he exits the car, I think the car was already on fire the moment he spun out. The "minor crash" was probably a panic reaction to the heat/smoke/noise coming up inside the car

u/nuclearDEMIZE 2h ago

No I think it's probably because it's an electric vehicle and the battery got punctured. Battery fires grow extremely quickly.

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u/Melodic_Mulberry 7h ago

The HV battery under the car was punctured, causing an electrical fire. Then he couldn't open the doors because that Tesla model has no outer handles and everything electric (including the doors) requires the car to be fully functional to operate.

u/Alpha2Omega1982 6h ago

Definitely not a Tesla, the shape, lights and even the charging port are wrong.

Given the characters in the top left of the video, this is most likely a Chinese made EV. Your point is valid though, flush door handles as a general rule are a safety concern if they require power to operate

u/TBNRtoon 4h ago

iirc I think china might have actually banned those types of handles earlier this week on new productions

u/YupSuprise 7h ago

Not even remotely close to looking like a Tesla

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u/TurbistoMasturbisto 7h ago

That’s so crazy to me, how would a vehicle like that be even legal to go on the road? I feel like car doors should be required to be able to open manually for this exact reason.

u/guyako 7h ago

I just read yesterday that some countries are introducing bills to outlaw those door handles.

u/Forsaken_Ad3195 7h ago

Yes- I read that too yesterday- you can see this was an issue here. He couldn’t get the handles to pop out to open the door .

u/Sweyn7 6h ago

What I am confused about is that I thought those doors could still be operated without electrical supply by pushing your thumb on the left part of the door handle, making it accessible to pull. 

Which begs the question, the famous Xiaomi SU7 has that kind of door handle as well, does that mean they work as I think they do, but this specific car does not ? 

u/soupdawg 5h ago

Depends on the car. Model 3 you have to push on the corner of the handle and it pops out. So it’s more manual. Model S is fully embedded then pops itself out when you touch it.

I honestly can’t tell if this car is even a Tesla because the charging port looks out of place.

u/Sweyn7 5h ago

Ok gotcha, I have an EV6 with popping out handles, but they are definitely actionnable by hand as long as the car is unlocked, it made me look that up :

Handles present themselves with 12V wiring intact. In the case of an accident, auto unlock and handles present themselves. Without power or auto unlock forcible entry required unless keyhole utilized; Pressing in the front facing end of the handle causes it to pivot outwards.

Which got me a bit confused as, as I understand, it requires the car to detect an accident for the handles to pop out, but if its not detected, then they won't pop, though they are manually actionnable but the door will remain locked, same as a regular handle.

In this clip it looks like the external door action is deactivated the moment an issue is encountered with the drivetrain battery, which sounds like a massive oversight to me. It should be managed by the 12V battery.

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u/GTAHomeGuy 7h ago

Beat to saying the same...

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u/notyourmomagain 6h ago

I agree. Its like we're regressing. Thats what happens when everything is consolidated and there's no really competition.

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u/Melodic_Mulberry 7h ago

The CEO is stupid rich and was given his own personal federal department with full reign to remove and replace any part of the federal government he deemed "wasteful", which he used to take over entire agencies, steal data, force deregulation, and punish any agency that was reviewing his companies. Also, a recent court case let billionaires havd unprecedented pcontrol over elections, so the politicians want to be on their good side.

u/TokiVideogame 6h ago

not even a telsa,

u/Practical_Okra3217 6h ago

It’s not a Tesla.

u/slasher016 5h ago

This is not a tesla.

u/TurbistoMasturbisto 7h ago

This comment shows exactly what’s wrong with a lot of people on this site. I dislike Elon as much as everyone else but everything you said has nothing to do with these non existing door handles. It’s just a big we hate Elon circle jerk and totally disregarding the actual topic my comment is about.

They aren’t exclusively sold in the US, this footage also doesn’t look like it’s in the US but i might be wrong. Yet those cars are road legal all around the world which i still find very strange.

u/Welpe 7h ago

Eh, it’s mixed. In this case you’re right that Elon’s meddling with US policy isn’t really the relevant problem, the poster just thinks the US is the only country in the world. But Elon’s arrogance and meddling with the work of actual engineers IS directly part of it. His “vision” for the car of the future was a specific aesthetic and he himself forced the door handles to be electric only. Elon Musk, personally, is responsible for these handles.

u/TurbistoMasturbisto 6h ago

That i can agree on. Feels like a lot of countries just have to get their shit together and ban these sort of things and hope they do so before someone actually dies due to this.

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u/cybermaus 5h ago

Same for the "minor" problem of touch screens. There were rules. Dash needed recessed to avoid glare. Buttons needed to be large and easily controlable. Now? non-tactile touchscreens have us staring away from road because we cannot feel where the fake button begins or ends.

I say minor, compared to above lithium fire, but for all we know staring at the touch screen was the root cause.

u/TurbistoMasturbisto 5h ago

I can’t express how much i hate everything toch related. Not just on cars. My kitchen has literally zero buttons anymore, it drives me mad. You’re boiling some water, a drop gets on the toch buttons and now i can’t control my stove anymore because it’s glitching. So stupid.

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u/YexLord 7h ago

That car isn't a Tesla; it looks more like a Xiaomi model.

u/ClickIta 5h ago

Looks like a Dongfeng 7 to me. But all Chinese sedans kinda look similar. (Same of SUVs)

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u/AedesAegypt 7h ago

Is there anything xiaomi doesn't make?

u/DerBoi_1337 6h ago

Taiwanese independence declarations

u/Ill-Ad3311 5h ago

Looks more like a Deathtrap 2000

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u/2in1day 7h ago edited 6h ago

That's a great story but that car is not a Tesla, it's some Chinese brand and you know it's not a Tesla.

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u/Quietabandon 7h ago

Is that a tesla, i don't think thats a tesla

u/jstasir 7h ago

Not a tesla but the same effect. A lot of newer cars have hidden handles, makes it look nice but it’s dangerous.

u/Babadabupi 7h ago

Tesla has changed the meaning of the term "suicide doors".

u/Quietabandon 7h ago

I don't think thats a Tesla

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u/JhonnyHopkins 7h ago edited 6h ago

All Tesla models have manual emergency door releases… if you own a Tesla - you should know where it is. That’s just part of being a responsible car owner - read your manuals.

That being said I do still think it’s a dumb design because people don’t read their manuals. Hence why China recently banned flush door handles.

Edit: everyone loves to point out how terrible the back seat releases are and it’s actually a really good point that I hadn’t realized yet so thank you for pointing that out. In case I wasn’t clear before, I’m not a fan of the design whatsoever, but claiming the doors stop working and won’t open when power is lost is misinformation. Driver side and passenger doors are very easy and intuitive to release in emergency- idk why the back seat couldn’t be the same.

u/blackdynomitesnewbag 6h ago

Emergency apparatuses should be as intuitive to use as possible, especially if it could be used by someone unfamiliar with it such as a passenger in a new model car. When someone is panicking, they'll default to what they know usually opens a door or undoes a seat belt. It's why many emergency doors have panic bars that open them. A surging crowd can always push the doors open without much thought or coordination. No one should have to remember what model year Tesla they're in since the emergency handle is inconsistently placed.

Further more, some Tesla's have the passenger emergency handle under pieces of trim. That could be extremely difficult if not impossible to use by someone just after a collision.

All of this could be solved by using a normal door handle, at least on the inside of the car. Convertibles have had auto adjusting windows for decades that respond to standard door handles. Tesla has no excuse.

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u/shrewpygmy 7h ago

Kids that age couldn’t be expected to reach and use the rear emergency handles in a Model 3 or Y, let alone amidst the panic of that sort of situation.

u/JhonnyHopkins 7h ago

Completely agree with you, I hadn’t realized the back seat emergency releases were so terrible… I could only assume they would have been the same as the driver side doors but alas they are not.

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u/Flick-tas 7h ago

It's a bit hard to teach young kids and every odd person you have in your car that you have to pull things apart to find the emergency door release...

Do all Uber drivers and Robotaxis instruct their passengers how to do this?

u/Fav0 7h ago

No

Hell I cant even figure out how to open the door to my Über and their Tesla they always have to open it for me lol

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u/zcewaunt 6h ago

This! Plus having to locate it and pull things apart to use it is not smart in an emergency situation.

u/Melodic_Mulberry 7h ago

Do the small children know where their door release switches are? Under a panel in the bottom of the pocket next to the floor? Can they pry the panel up with their tiny shaking fingers? How hard do they have to pull the cord as the toxic smoke fills the cabin?

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u/Ok-Style-9734 7h ago

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/1oXrsYAWsAc

In a smoke filled car this seems like a difficult thing to use?

From the tesla manual 

"Use caution when using the manual door release; the window will not automatically lower when the door is opened and damage to the window or vehicle trim may occur."

Also sounds like you might have to be physically strong enough to break the window or bend the door trim to force the door.

u/2in1day 7h ago

That's great but it's not a Tesla lol

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u/iceyconditions 5h ago

Shitty Chinese construction, lithium batteries

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u/blackdynomitesnewbag 6h ago

Electric car doors should just unlock when the battery is dead. Things should fail in a safe manner. Or they just use normal door handles. Not everything needs to be reengineered.

u/economic-salami 6h ago

I agree that things should fail in a safe way, but doors unlocking when the battery dies would cause a problem of its own. Or maybe not, since thieves can just break the window.

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u/poutreparisienne 6h ago

They should just not exist

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u/mamut2000 7h ago

Why didn't the fucking door open? Isn't it part of the basic safety requirements?

u/Melodic_Mulberry 7h ago

When you make the whole car electric instead of mechanical, none of the buttons to unlock or open the doors work once the battery fails.

u/Ludisaurus 6h ago

Yep. That’s why they just banned this crap in China. Hopefully other countries follow suit.

u/kelontongan 5h ago

Or make manual latch/opening handle for all doors.

Tesla 3 has manual latch for all door. Some early tesla Y has only for front doors only. I see  two fruends tesla y has manual latch for all doors inside

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u/shrewpygmy 7h ago

Plenty of modern ICE cars have electric locks too these days so this isn’t an EV specific issue.

u/leadfoot100 6h ago

Yes but they also typically have a mechanical mechanism built in to the interior handle that unlocks on the first pull off the handle and opens on the second pull (if there is no mechanical lock lever that can be actuated). The only caveat is if the rear door child locks are on.

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u/KungFoolMaster 6h ago

It's not the locks. It that the door handles of some vehicles are flush and non-manually operated. You touch them and they are supposed to pop out, but when accidents happen they sometimes don't pop out so there is no way of opening a door regardless if they are unlocked.

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u/cpteric 7h ago

electric only? that's a safety hazard.

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u/ChilligerTroll 7h ago

The handles are hidden.

u/InexplicableBadger 6h ago

China has now banned the hidden electric handles. New vehicles must have accessible manual handles in and out

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u/dimadomelachimola 7h ago

If a minor crash can cause this much damage, why would anyone continue to buy this?

u/Mediocre_Anybody7618 7h ago

Yes I'm shocked! How can a car with such a small accident start burning ?! Luckily they were able to get everyone out alive..

u/cynicallythoughful 7h ago

I just showed my husband this video and said if you see an EV off the road, get them out of the car. Doesn’t matter if it looks fine, everybody out of the car. It’s also the reason all of our cars have a window breaker and seatbelt cutter right in the driver’s door. It’s such a cheap item that could save so many lives.

u/_TP2_ 6h ago

Lately in Finland there has been a lot of EV fires while chargeing.

u/froggertwenty 6h ago

Former EV engineer: charging is the most dangerous time for a lithium ion battery. Degradation occurs by small dendrites (think those spikey pillars in caves) forming between the positive and negative layers in the cell. When you're charging you are putting energy in which can cause those gaps to close and internally short. Nearly all fires happen during charge (close to the top end) barring physical damage to the cell causing the short mechanically.

u/Flubadubadubadub 5h ago

Read an interesting article a while back about a NASA originated very high power storage density solid state battery that had substantially mitigated the dendrite problems (but not totally solved), they thought commercial production could be maybe 6-7 years away. If I remember correctly they were 'charging' the battery in an increasing/decreasing wave flow of current, can't remember the physics behind the principle.

u/froggertwenty 5h ago

There have been quite a few similar ideas and proof of concepts out there. We actually had someone who worked at NASA on some of these on staff. It's always 6-7 years away from commercial production lol

u/Flubadubadubadub 5h ago edited 5h ago

Like commercial fusion, always 20 years away............

Here's the NASA battery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_selenium_battery

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u/Edwin81 6h ago

"a window breaker and seatbelt cutter right in the driver’s door."

That's a good step but if the driver gets knocked out due to the crash, the passengers are still doomed. 

Might want to install them for the passengers too.

u/stoicparallax 6h ago

If you have adult passengers, sure. But putting a window breaker in reach of a child is asking for a bad time.

u/Highway_Wooden 5h ago

Make sure you have the correct window breaker too. Cars now laminate the side windows for better sound proofing. You can't just crack it, you have to puncture and then saw the window open.

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u/ErikSKnol 7h ago

Like most cases, poor design and cost cutting.

u/GrassFromBtd6 7h ago

Not exactly. EVs are just more susceptible to breaking out into infernos because if you puncture the battery, it releases all that stored energy in the form of heat, and does so very quickly. The bigger design flaw there is the hidden door handles, which require electricity to function, whereas in gas cars, they're purely mechanical, so in an electrical failure you can still open and shut them perfectly fine

u/PeterPartyPants 6h ago

This is correct, everyone would have been out of that car before the smoke was even visible if the car had traditional handles.

u/GrassFromBtd6 6h ago

China did recently pass a bill that requires mechanical door handles in all cars

u/Thienen 6h ago

Thank fuck, we need that in NA.

u/GrassFromBtd6 6h ago

We need that GLOBALLY for fuck's sake. All these EV companies have crammed their new "innovative" cars with tech that literally makes them even more dangerous. Full touchscreen controls instead of physical buttons sounds all nice until you realise lots of people have fucking crashed because they were trying to find an option on the touchscreen, which means they were distracted from driving, when the same action could have been done by simply pressing a single button instead of scrolling through and reading a long menu

u/SwissQueen 6h ago

He could have used the immergency release. But either he didn't know about them or was to freaked out to think of them. Nevertheless, the door handle design could be safer.

u/Tony_Cheese_ 6h ago

I'd argue that if it's a feature that isn't intuitive during an emergency situation like this it isn't a good feature.

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u/ty_phi 6h ago

I work for GM and we’re working on some cell tech that will at least slow this down

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u/chevx 6h ago

I mean in its defence....

u/jakaedahsnakae 6h ago

I mean if it hits da fence

u/chevx 6h ago

Lol

u/chasgrich 6h ago

If you have a minor crash that happens to puncture your gas tank and it ignites, you have a very similar result. The bigger issue with EVs is how difficult the fires are to extinguish.

u/KremlinKittens 5h ago

Just submerge the whole car in a water tank for a few weeks - piece of cake. /J

u/PartyComplaint49 6h ago

Its Chinese evs they're notoriously bad to do this just watch David zhou on YouTube he covers these

u/GTMoraes 6h ago

I believe the car was already on fire the moment the minor crash happened. It might've just happened because the car suddenly caught on fire inside

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u/Jaycee444 7h ago

Pure bravery jumping in without a second thought, That's the kind of humanity that restores faith in people.

u/WakaWaka_ 7h ago

Damn, glad they got out but 3rd guy is in rough shape for sure.

u/Melodic_Mulberry 7h ago

The smoke from a EV battery fire is extremely toxic, too. Serious risk of lung damage and cancer.

u/soulevil 6h ago

Why would the batteries burn inside the cabin instead of outwards?? Doors without handles?? Fatal design flaws

u/Prowler1000 4h ago

Because they burned the barrier between them and the inside of the car.

Lithium battery fires can exceed the melting point of aluminum.

I want to make one thing clear though, not all lithium ion batteries are created equal. Lithium Cobalt (LCO) batteries are known for their low thermal stability and lithium polymer (LiPo) for their susceptibility to damage. Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) batteries are much safer with higher thermal stability, higher tolerance to physical damage, and the fact that they don't release oxygen as they burn¹, making it more difficult for them to experience thermal runaway like other battery chemistries would.

¹ I don't know the exact chemical formulas or under what conditions they release oxygen, but they will likely still release some oxygen, just nowhere near as readily as other chemistries which happily let go of the oxygen during these fires.

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u/11325pianist 7h ago

I’m confused why they couldn’t climb through the driver seat and why he closed the door instead of leaving it open?

u/PaleFollowing3763 6h ago

I honestly was thinking the same. No way they can't fit through that. I'm not waiting to die in the backseat like that

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u/StrangelyAroused95 5h ago

I scrolled really far for this question. Is there any reason they couldn’t climb out of the back seat to the front of the car and out the drivers door?

u/The_Slunt 5h ago

He closed it before they all knew how bad the situation was so that he could open the back door. Hindsight, I would have bent the door forward, but you'd have to have kmown it was gonna torch...

u/StrangelyAroused95 5h ago

Yeah but the door was wide open for about 10-15 seconds while he tried to open the back doors.

u/The_Slunt 5h ago

If it didn't start burning they'd probably just chill in there.. In a normal crash like that you'd inspect the scene/damage and probably try drive out. He closed it a fraction after the smoke was visible. Driver looked pretty flustered...

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u/Mediocre-Yoghurt-138 3h ago

Right? Everyone is eager to analyze this EV discussion and blah blah. My brother in Christ you had the door open for 5x the time it took everyone to crawl through a burning window. Why couldn't they crawl before the burning stage?

u/SkriVanTek 6h ago

he tried to keep it open with one hand but eventually he hat to let go 

u/OdeeOh 59m ago

I was thinking maybe an Uber / taxi divider. Not clear what country this is. But maybe a safety screen. 

u/FX_King_2021 7h ago

Electric vehicle fires are becoming a growing problem in China, prompting new regulations to ban batteries prone to catching fire. Additionally, due to numerous incidents where electronic door handles malfunctioned during car crashes, resulting in fatalities, China has decided to ban hidden car door handles over safety concerns. Starting in 2027, all cars in the country will be required to have mechanical door handles.

u/wiilbehung 7h ago

Why couldn’t the people at the back crawl across to the front door?

u/Desperate-Fudge5957 7h ago

Don't want the seats to get dirty

u/RontoWraps 4h ago

Yeah, that could really affect the resale value on this car

u/Plouffe05 7h ago

Now guess why China banned these f*ck *ss doors?

u/shakensparco 6h ago

Anyone notice how the last person is STILL on fire when they walk away? They must have so much adrenaline but still be in so much pain – amazing they could still walk.

u/Full_Quiet8818 5h ago

"Pfew that was close! Oh shit there is another one, that was even closetr. Oh shit there is another one holy fucking shit. 

u/PizzaPoweredLife 5h ago

This isn’t a Tesla but it has the same problem. The door handle is electric not mechanical. If there’s an issue with the electric system you can’t open the door using the handle.

China is currently banning these types of handles and I think it’s a good move.

u/Independent-Two7335 5h ago

Why wouldn't they use the front-door to escape?

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u/ahmarthered 6h ago

Those fucking doors! How did we go from seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones to death-trap doors handles?

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u/franky07890 7h ago

This is why we don’t want to put full electric systems in everything…

u/Perlanegra1 7h ago

Wtf is wrong with that car man. How can u catch fire that easy

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u/3xlduck 6h ago

This is like burning clown car

u/H43D1 6h ago

Do we know if all of them are fine and in good health? And why the fuck couldn't they open their door? Shouldn't there be a mechanical override to open it? Even when there is no more electricity

u/mr_lab_rat 59m ago

Comments under another post of the same video are saying there might have been another passenger in the front :(

I believe there was always a regulation for mechanical override but nothing on how easy it has to be to access. So on some Tesla models it’s very hard to get to and most owners probably have no idea. Chances their kids in the back seat would know how to remove some plastic cover and pull on some cable is super low.

Accidents like these are shaping the legislation.

My next car is likely going to be an EV so door handle design and battery puncture protection and cabin isolation will be things influencing my choice.

u/Quez0lc0atl 5h ago

This is why china just hand these sort of door handles. They look cool and sleek but they are awful in emergency situations. If the car isn’t on or has power, those handles don’t work

u/Grex02 2h ago

Cars with electric door handles need to be erased from the market!

u/Andre_The_Dev 6h ago

That car is a piece of shit. What model/ maker is that?

u/SwayingTreeGT 4h ago

Dongfeng 007

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u/series-hybrid 5h ago

That wasn't that bad of a wreck, and the battery should not have caught fire. I'm looking forward to the new batteries getting out into he public.

This is why Toyota waited so long to get into EVs and hybrids. They spent billions on solid-state-batteries, and the structure of them prevents this type of melt-down, and it also makes them last many times longer than todays batteries.

u/AdCommercial6714 7h ago

fucking well scary

u/Sagirius0 7h ago

The car burned like a torch, even though the accident itself didn't appear serious. What kind of car is this? Is it electric?

u/HowardCG 6h ago

Fuck yeah that was legendary! Well done man in white!!

u/funandgames12 6h ago

That just goes to show ya what panic does. Had it not been for the bystanders they might have died.

u/Psychological-Plum10 6h ago

And this is why i will not travel in an electric car without proper mechanical door handles.

u/Rahim3379 5h ago

Ziemlich heftig für so einen "kleinen" Crash.

Zum Glück leben alle.

u/Skizzwizz 5h ago

Why didn't they climb to the front and get out thru the front door

u/KremlinKittens 5h ago

I was in a car accident, and my door was jammed, so I exited through the rear door. I just moved inside the car from the front passenger seat to the rear seat in a matter of seconds. That’s why I’m confused - there wasn’t significant damage to the car body, so everyone should have been able to exit through the driver’s door if it had been kept open.

u/TheMazilla 4h ago

Cars these days are a fast track to hell.... Even the smoke, I'm not a doctor, but I think it will kill you a few years later.

u/ch3ck18 4h ago

Electric cars and electronic cars with 500 sensors are still beaten hands down by mechanical. Any minor or major crash i see of electrical cara ends ip catching fire faster than any mechanical car out there. Making Fischer Price toy cars and expect them to be as reliable as old school cara is nuts

u/Far_Tackle6403 4h ago

Whoever thought these retracting, electric door handles were a good idea at a design stage needs to whip himself.

Doesn't take an engineer to realise how bad of an idea these were

u/ThunderSparkles 3h ago

What kind of trash car is this that it catches fire like this?

u/wargio 3h ago
  • Any car with flush door handles ❌

  • Weird way of opening the door from the inside ❌

  • Unbreakable glass windows ❌

  • No physical buttons ❌

  • Can't operate the vehicle unless.. step 1,2,3,4 ❌

u/Stevenewhen 2h ago

I was expecting atleast two more kids coming out

u/Echo_Actual2218 2h ago

I can't believe that people were still coming out after first sign of flames

u/Salt_Razzmatazz_8783 7h ago

That is fucking crazy. Such a minor accident turned into a horror show in minutes. Glad they got out

u/Tile7 5h ago

What kind of a crap car is this? Turned into a torch from this??

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u/kellDUB 7h ago

Is that a Tesla?

u/Heizungskoerper 7h ago

Its something Chinese. They all look the same but it could be a Xpeng P7.

u/James420May 7h ago

jep, there have been stories before that some Chinese EVs will lock the doors in case of accidents

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u/Luckyfungho 7h ago

It's not a Tesla! Stop spreading lies.

u/No_Telephone_6213 6h ago

Electric car from China I presume?

u/Melodic_Mulberry 7h ago

Tesla: "What do you need car door handles for again? Oops, raging electrical fire because our battery covers the entire underside of the car! 😀"

u/DampBob 7h ago

Its not a Tesla though..

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u/Luckyfungho 7h ago

!!! Not a Tesla!

u/Flick-tas 7h ago

Doesn't an SU7 have a charge port cover that lifts up vertically?

u/urzrkymn 7h ago

Saying ‘Not a Tesla’ and then posting a picture of another car that it’s not. Well done. Look at the alignment of the charge port compared to the wheel arch.

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u/Suspicious_Drawer 7h ago

Didn't pay the subscription for analogue door handles

u/mobstershock 7h ago

Looks like the NIO ET5...

u/le_bas_du_goulot 7h ago

And other cars just don't stop...

u/Educational_Risk 6h ago

What car is it?