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yeah, sorry Road Traffic Collision.
The best info I've managed to glean is from Tesla owners....everyone seems to say 'I'll find out, and get back to you...'
Then they don't. But yeah, something with potentially massively lethal electramatricity on fire.....you don't want to be squirting water at it. Around here we have a lot of Fords across roads and when it floods ( often) , some of the entitled twunts think they can drive through them. They can't.
What effect is that gonna have on me, the rescue swimmer, when I plunge in to get the prick?
stedlocks-
Is it phsyically possible to "turn off" a submerged battery?
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Caveat, this is only schoolboy/undergrad physics knowledge:
What effect is that gonna have on me, the rescue swimmer, when I plunge in to get the prick?
Despite Hollywood/cartoons, water's generally not that conductive and (if I recall correctly) the danger goes down with distance squared, so if you double the distance to the battery the shock is 4 times weaker. Also it's a battery, so it'd be a one-off short rather than a continuous current. In other words, my guess is that if you're not in the water near the car at the time of the short, you should be okay.
Spraying water on it, I guess that could be a concern. But seems unlikely the stream of water would be the shortest path to ground.
Hopefully some firefighting people somewhere in the world will conduct a thorough investigation and produce advice for you.
kboy
frankenbike
What's an RTC?
Hasn't there been a couple of horrible accidents with teslas where they catch fire and it's been really hard to put out? Spoke to my neighbour who's a firefighter who mentioned something along these lines