EEVblog 1568 - Tesla Megapack 2 Battery FIRE! at Bouldercombe QLD

[.RC.]

Since I do not have a youtube account so cannot comment on the video on youtube.

You pronounce the name Bouldercombe without the e on the end.   So it is Boulder+Comb.    Maybe a long time ago they combed boulders there? I dunno.

Also there is a proposed solar farm on the adjoining land where battery and substation is.   Although it has been proposed for seems like ten years or more.

For the renewable aficionado's, if you go to Qld Globe website  https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/  go to layers -->> add layers, then down the bottom the utliities and communications layer, you can bring up proposed, under construction and operating renewable facilities.   Although it is not exactly up to date as that battery site is not marked, but other sites in the region are.

[.RC.]

Bit of an update.   Tesla are replacing two of the modules.

[rteodor]

Any update/report on this fire ?
I am curious on this because of the LFP battery type.

PS: Not that it would have too much credibility (the case of bad Land Rovers becoming the piniata of Luton parking place fires destroyed much of the trust in media reports) but still...

[thm_w]

Any update/report on this fire ?
I am curious on this because of the LFP battery type.

PS: Not that it would have too much credibility (the case of bad Land Rovers becoming the piniata of Luton parking place fires destroyed much of the trust in media reports) but still...

You can do a quick google and find the result: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-megapack-fire-australia-didnt-start-from-battery-modules-analysis/

The preliminary RCA indicates that a fault occurred on the AC side of the Megapack unit. The fault then propagated to the battery modules within the Megapack. The burn of the Megapack followed design and certification testing expectations under UL9540A, with no external water required, and no propagation of the active fire to adjacent Megapack units or balance of plant.