"Some electric vehicles exposed to Hurricane saltwater flooding caught fire" - Article

[Tooney]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-idalia-electric-car-caught-fire-tesla/

 

[kort]

any exposure to flooding, especially saltwater, will be very detrimental. as for causing fires, that is yet to be proven, despite reports of 1 or 2 cars supposedly catching due to flooding in the recent storm in FL. I am somewhat local and I saw no reporting of such fires.

 

[JRNJTAYCAN]

In a way this is a good thing, what I mean is once a car gets flooded and the insurance company scraps them we all know they get sold again somehow and some poor folks buy a problem once flooded.
This way the Taycan truly gets scrapped and someone does not buy a problem!

 

[Tooney]

any exposure to flooding, especially saltwater, will be very detrimental. as for causing fires, that is yet to be proven, despite reports of 1 or 2 cars supposedly catching due to flooding in the recent storm in FL. I am somewhat local and I saw no reporting of such fires.

 

[Jhenson29]

@Tooney okay…but other than those…I haven’t seen any reporting of such fires.