The German company is already aware of the incident, which is under investigation.
The video above is one of the last pieces of information that are left about the first Porsche Taycan fire. According to it, the incident would have happened in Florida and would have ruined not only the car but also the garage in which it was. The tweet that talked about it, from the VWCHARTS profile, was erased, as well as the Twitter account. Yet, some pieces are still out there, like the video above. And you may help us put them together.
Gallery: One Of The First Porsche Taycan Burns Down In South Florida
10 Photos The original tweet read like this, according to a Boerse-Online.com forum thread: “@Porsche Taycan exploded in Florida garage. @Tesla @elonmusk @teslataxisea #taycan #taycanexploded #ev @andrew_gold_?” Tesla Taxi America, or @teslataxisea, just said, “wow.” A N D R E W G O L D, or @andrew_gold_, did not comment, so these profiles did not help a lot. But Google did. Have a look at the search with the original tweet URL. It says the fire started midday on February 16 in South Florida. Were it accurate, it is strange this fire did not make it into the local news. Firefighters must have been called, as well as the police, but we have found nothing on the news. That is probably one of the reasons for Tesla forums such as TMC and the official one from Tesla to ask why there is nothing on the media about it so far. It is just sad that they apparently do it for the wrong reason. While it is essential to clarify what happened, most users seemed to take joy in that fire. It is as if the incident was something to be celebrated. Perhaps they think it made justice for Tesla as if the lack of information or articles was a proof that the media wants to report negative stuff on the company to hurt it or even to kill it, as a sort of plot against electric mobility itself. But Tesla is just a part of that, even if a big one. What most do not seem to realize is that any EV fire has to be reported as much as fires on ICE cars. GM recently had them making headlines in Brazil with the second-generation Onix, the best-selling car in that market. Although electric cars exist for ages, lithium-ion batteries and electronics have made them viable only very recently. There is a massive expectation that they are not just as safe as a regular car: they must be safer to stand as a compelling business case and attract potential buyers. When anything like a fire happens to them, people want to know why and they have the right to. In other words, any such episode is not detrimental solely to the brand, but to the EV cause as a whole. We were relieved to see at least one forum user – S4WRXTTCS – knew that. We have no idea who this person is, but Darth Vader would say, “common sense is strong with this one.” That said, this is something we have to cover as much as we spoke of a Hyundai Kona fire in Canada and a BMW i3 in Toluca Lake. They still have not been clarified. Back to the EV Porsche’s case, the video above presents the remains of the Taycan and the garage. We can see a large cable over the car structure, but it seems to come from the roof. Wall chargers usually have cables hanging, well, on the walls. The own roof has its structure wholly exposed, and we would have nothing but the word of the person that made the video to confirm it was a Taycan if it was not for another Twitter user, Nafnlaus. We already mentioned this anonymous profile when it came out with the information that the Model Y had massive cast parts. This time, it has interacted with the VWCHARTS’ original tweet to confirm the car was really a Taycan. In the pictures above, you can see Nafnlaus uses the wheel that appears on the video and some of the body structures to confirm it is really the first EV Porsche produced. The screenshots of his interaction are still on the internet. This is the last tweet he posted about the incident. Considering Nafnlaus seems to know quite a bit about car bodies and structures, and how well based are his tweets, there would not be any reason for us to doubt it is really a Taycan, probably one of the very first to reach customer’s hands. When we were about to publish this article, Porsche Germany answered our message asking for more details. This is the official statement from the company: “Porsche confirms that on Sunday (February 16th, 2020), a Taycan was involved in a fire at a residential address in the US. The vehicle and the cause of the incident are currently being examined. We ask for your understanding that we cannot discuss details until the investigation has been completed.” As you can see, it was indeed a Taycan, and the fire occurred on February 16, but the company does not mention where the burst happened. As most info we gathered is correct, we assume it was really in South Florida. If you know the car owner or have more information, feel free to share it with us. We have asked Porsche to keep us posted on what could have caused the issue, and we’ll write a new article as soon as we have all the information available. Source: Read Full Article
