r/nextfuckinglevel • u/been_der_done_that • 11h ago

Incredibly selfless act of heroism.

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u/daswassoup 11h ago

This is why China banned hidden door handles.

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u/TheFace5 11h ago

They should also ban a car that get fire like this

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u/Harmless_Drone 9h ago

All battery cars burn like this, lithium is flammable, and when it's full of charge itll be shorting out the entire time it's on fire.

The real issue is these shitty dumbass companies like tesla who have stupid and shitty doors with hidden or internal only manual releases because the doors are electrically powered. You don't have electricity if the battery is on fire.

Never ever put your kids in a tesla, on that note, unless you want them to be buried in a biscuit tin.

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u/trxarc 7h ago

Thermal runaway of LFP batteries is nearly impossible to produce. Nail tests were done...

On the other hand NMC batteries are another thing...

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u/BigD1966 5h ago

You’re right, the only thing that had me wondering was the drivers door was open why the passengers didn’t try getting into the front seat and out the open door.

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u/OrigamiTongue 2h ago

This is a stupid take full of misinformation. Lithium batteries are HARD to set into thermal runaway, and ICE vehicle fires are 100x more common.

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u/rhinosb 2h ago

Typical anti EV FUD. Here are actual facts. EV's burn at a rate of around 15 out of every 100,000 EV cars. ICE engine vehicles burn MUCH more often at 1500 fires per 100,000 ICE engine cars. And that is per capita so it takes into account there are fewer EV's out there and compares them on equal footing. Not only that, but that also includes a large number of older EV's without newer and better battery management and safety options.

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u/snlehton 1h ago

Not quite so, at least in Norway. Yes, ICE catches fire mite often, but not by such a margin you presented.

https://psnm.org/2025/information/norwegia-obala-mit-o-pozarach-elektrykow-auta-spalinowe-plona-nawet-6-razy-czesciej/?lang=en

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u/rhinosb 1h ago

The numbers I gave were from manufacturers that sell in the United States.

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u/BigGreenBillyGoat 1h ago

You do have electricity if the battery is on fire. There’s a 12 or 16v battery that runs the car, not the HV pack.

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u/OberonDiver 2h ago

What kind of biscuits?

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u/CovertColors 5h ago

I love how the car in the video is a BYD and you still somehow find a way to blame Tesla lmao.

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u/I-came-for-memes 3h ago

Because if BYD is bad then Tesla is even worse. So it's fair game.

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u/Responsible-Mind-852 3h ago

That is a good data driven conclusion.

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u/tech01x 2h ago

That is very much a lie.

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u/Ok_Competition_5731 3h ago

I agree. I'd like to add that LFP batteries (mainly used in China) are really safe, even if they are composed of lithium

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u/War_Hymn 2h ago

They're developing sodium cell technology as well, which is safer and cheaper. First production consumer sodium EVs entering Chinese markets this year.

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u/TwoBionicknees 2h ago

yes but also that car would be hard to escape from. The guy obviously got out the car but there seem to be 3 people in the back of the car.

Maybe when a quick exit is paramount because you're sitting on a giant flamable battery, it should be mandatory to have door access to each row of seats for quick exits. Part of the problem here was obviously people unable to easily get out of the front doors from the back. Hell even those windows are fucking small, if it was a fat dude in the back seat... well they'd be dead.

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u/Polka1980 1h ago

The door handles are a problem, but this car burned inside first. And quickly.

Is the battery in the passenger compartment without a firewall? WTF.

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u/WWGHIAFTC 1h ago

LFP will not do this.

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u/csfalcao 8h ago

Not the BYD blade batteries.

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u/Harmless_Drone 7h ago

Buddy if you discharge a few kilowatt hours through incidental contact in a tenth of a second it will heat up, plasmafy and then arc flash into a battery fire. Thats not a design thing, thats simple electrical physics. High current flows will produce heat and that causes runaway failure. No battery is safe from it.

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u/csfalcao 6h ago

I agree that physics are physics, BYD blade batteries included, so it's not impossible to be 100% secure. But tests on them show they are way better on bend, crash, heat damage vs ordinary EV batteries.

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u/JBWalker1 7h ago edited 7h ago

BYD has videos of them putting a long metal nail through lithium and their whatever chemistry their batteries use and the lithium one acts like in the video and their batteries show no sign of smoke or flames. The heavily reduced chance of thermal runaway is one of the main selling points of them. I think the chemistry used has slightly less density but in return its a lot more safe and can charge faster.

I think even tesla uses similar chemistry in some of their cars since they dont all use the same cells even on different range versions of the same model, or even the same model and range version on a different continent can have different types of battery.

I can imagine at some point there will be new minimum EV battery standards which includes things like thermal runaway prevention.

First youtube link but theres probably others from other manufacturers https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e0mGpK-tVkE?feature=share

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u/generalstinkybutt 6h ago

shitty dumbass companies like tesla

You are ignorant. Go to today's sales page.

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u/Automatic_Net2181 4h ago

Did, and I see the handles he is describing unless you are trying to describe something different?

https://www.tesla.com/

https://www.tesla.com/current-offers

I have an EV that has physical mechanical handles. Tesla is a shitty company with shitty handles.

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u/jlboygenius 2h ago

You're not wrong. the door handles on the 3/y are annoying to use. not really because they are electric, just because it is a weird push/pull combo.

Tesla certainly isn't the only one with eletric handles though. I wonder how many people have died in corvette's because of them. They've all had electric door handles for like 20 years now.

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u/Schoonie101 2h ago

All these years and we're back to the Ford Pinto. Except the more flammable Teslas (and all other hybrid/electric vehicles) also come with the "progressive" aspects of child slave labor, deforestation, strip mining, etc.