My boat's hull happens to be made of 1/4 inch metal plate (6mm) which is apparently the same as the protected underside of a Tesla. I've hit a concrete block, gone aground a few times and generally have a bit of excperiencing with impacting hard immovable objects with a vehicle protected by a 1/4 inch metal plate.
It takes a LOT of force to pierce 1/4 inch plate. My boat weighs 12 tons, and it hardly has a dent from the collissions I and previous owners have been in.
that if a tesla has a 1/4 inch protective plate seperating the batteries from the road it's a safe vehicle indeed.
I was simply sharing my personal experience with ramming 1/4 inch plated vehicles into hard immovable objects to give some perspective as to what kind of strength we're talking about.
The fire in question involved the piercing of a 1/4" plate protecting the battery from below. If that's a thick enough plate to protect a 12-ton boat, which has more momentum than the Tesla even at much slower speeds, with hardly a dent, then the Tesla incident was very, very out of the ordinary.
It takes a LOT of force to pierce 1/4 inch plate. My boat weighs 12 tons, and it hardly has a dent from the collissions I and previous owners have been in.