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0 pointscactusplant73743y ago0 comments

I totally get the risk. As a consumer I feel similar fear about EV car batteries. Even if you can find the escape hatch in a pinch (some EV doors aren't normally manually opened), your house could still burn down or there could be other life changing property damage. It's a small risk but still feels like a real risk.

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Tade03y ago

This problem is mostly solved by LFP batteries, which have a much lower risk of fire. So much so that you're more likely to have a petrol car spontaneously combust.

red-iron-pine3y ago

> (some EV doors aren't normally manually opened)

That screams regulation waiting to happen. like, have a lever or something on there. there is no more obvious or easily accessible place to flee a vehicle than the door.

also, which "some". is this just another tesla quirk?

p-schultz3y ago

Yes, Teslas have buttons to open the doors, but there are also mechanical releases as a backup [1].

The backups unlock the doors "no questions asked", so to speak, which includes possibly damaging the windows (because they don't get lowered out of their seals). For the front doors they are so intuitively placed that pretty much all of my first-time passengers have already used them before I can tell them to press the button instead.

Models other than 3 also have mechanical releases for the rear doors, apparently, but using those involves removing floor mats (according to the owner's manuals, no personal experience).

[1]: https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_us/GUID-7A32EC0...

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