Canadian Officials Researching Mysterious Kona EV Fire

Glad to hear nobody died. Having your garage door blown off and sent across the street is quite something.

Careful - if you report anything negative about Hyundai Darringer will insist you are racist.

Hey, Tesla invented EV fires.

OMG the Hyundai is a Tesla!!!!

What would be interesting is to hear from any firemen or bomb disposal folks who may be on this site who can talk to the forces at play to blast a heavy garage door off its tracks and send it across the street. Autospies does Science!

Assuming the report is accurate...

I would wonder about a natural gas leak from a water heater or dryer plus the heat of the batteries causing the explosion. If this is a sealed garage door--we love ours--you wouldn't get the blow around that a conventional garage door would have.

There's more here than the salacious bits.

@MD - Because this is a Canadian news article from
Montreal Quebec where they get real winter, unlike in the USA, a hot water tank and or clothes dryer would be in the basement, not the garage. It is just too cold to build houses that way.

But as the photos on another website show, the garage door was blown off, part of the garage roof was blow off and the rear man-door of the garage was also blown off. So as you suggested there may (somehow) be more to this story than just an EV overheating/on fire.

There's more here than the salacious bits.

— MDarringer
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That's odd. I notice you never take this reasonable, measured approach on negative Tesla news.

Yet again. Don't put words in my mouth. I'm not even remotely the harshest Tesla critic here.

seems more like a meth lab explosion.

Indeed, because while batteries could cause a fire, they would NOT cause an explosion without some co-present predicating factor. I suspect a sealed garage and a natural gas leak combined with hot batteries.