A similar ICE vehicle would just spill oil & fuel all over the place in the same situation, then get flipped in the used car market as a rusty time bomb for the unwitting new owner. tl;dr: evacuate.
Remember, if the battery and power module were water proof, this wouldn't be possible. Tesla denies warranty for water ingress in motors and battery packs regularly.
ICE vehicles can also light on fire from salt water shorting out the low voltage batteries. Where’s the news here?
Do Firefighters have to babysit an ICE car for hours and keep guzzling tens-of-thousands of gallons of water to keep the fire suppressed?
Your attempts at whataboutism are... hilariously misplaced. Any comparison between ICE and Li-ion here is hilariously one sided. The amount of fire-risk in this situation is evident from the multitude of Teslas that have exploded in the past.
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
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