Taycan fire in Florida garage

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Porsche Taycan Taycan fire in Florida garage Porsche-Taycan-Fire Explosion Garage Florida


https://electrek.co/2020/02/17/porsche-taycan-fire-burning-garage-florida/

Locals on Twitter who have videos of the aftermath are not sharing details in order to protect the identity of the owner, but they claim that the vehicle “exploded” inside the garage.
At this point, Porsche says that it is too early to speculate about the cause, but they are investigating the situation. A Porsche spokesperson told Electrek that it is the first reported instance of a fire involving a Taycan.
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Clearly some car went up in flames. But is it a Taycan? And if it was, was it the car that caught fire or the garage? And if it was the car, why?

At this point there is no confirmation it was a Taycan in the first place let alone any information on the reason of the fire. But, certainly following the development of this rumor closely.

Important to keep in mind that with a bad charging setup it is possible to light up your garage. Regardless of what kind of chargeable car sits there.
 
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Whouah.
I’m chocked.

If I’m sure it’s a Taycan (see tires, and seats), I really hope the fire started from the garage or from a bad plug.
otherwise, I’m a little bit worried about the Taycan Program ...
 

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It kinda looks like a Taycan. Like everyone is saying, if it is a Taycan, what started the fire? Was it something wrong with the battery? Was it something wrong with the car? Was it something wrong with the plug/charger? Until we get more info we can only speculate.

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It kinda looks like a Taycan.
This reminds me of a Rorschach test where it could be penguin playing piano or a truck unloading cargo, or one of those magic images where if you look long enough you see a dancing dolphin. I was never good at either of those, so I just see a mess of metal.
 


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Some people says on Twitter that EV cannot explode but only melt. Is it true ?
If you look at the last image of the video, we cannot see any black ash on the walls, so it seems unlikely to me that there was an explosion.
 

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I'm not very sure it's a fake news unfortunately.
Porsche Taycan Taycan fire in Florida garage Capture d’écran 2020-02-17 à 22.54.13

It's clearly a Turbo Aero Wheels ...
 

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I hope that no one was injured and that whomever lives in that house is ok. Hopefully we can hear about the root cause and understand whether it was the car, the electrical system in the garage or some combination. Not sure how batteries contained in a cooling system would get hot enough to ignite and cause that catastrophic of an event.
 


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Oh shit !

https://electrek.co/2020/02/17/porsche-taycan-fire-burning-garage-florida/

Locals on Twitter who have videos of the aftermath are not sharing details in order to protect the identity of the owner, but they claim that the vehicle “exploded” inside the garage.
At this point, Porsche says that it is too early to speculate about the cause, but they are investigating the situation. A Porsche spokesperson told Electrek that it is the first reported instance of a fire involving a Taycan.
 

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It is concerning. The amount of damage to the car from my amateur point of view looks like it may have originated from the car itself rather than the charger/wiring/breaker box. But I hope not.

EV's exploding by themselves without serious crash damage is almost unheard of and there are only a small amount of Taycan's out there... but I think it's useless to speculate on this before we get some answers from the investigations.

And yes, I definitely hope for quick answers to this.
 

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It’s not fake news unfortunately! Porsche have commented on this today!
 

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This is unfortunate will be interesting to find the cause.
 

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Interesting!!!

The Taycan has only "exploded" in "forums"... Interesting!!!!

Very Interesting!
 

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With a lot of hashtags Tesla!!!!

Interesting!

I should grow a Goatee and pulling it!!!

Very Interesting!
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